Emergency Roof Repair in The Beaches

Typically within 60 minutes, at any hour. The drive itself is seldom the problem, because the neighbourhood from Woodbine to Fallingbrook is one short stretch of the lakeshore. What can slow a Beach call is access rather than distance, since a narrow street with cars parked both sides takes longer to set up on safely than a suburban driveway.

Yes, and it is the most common emergency call we take from this neighbourhood. When a strong easterly comes through we are often called to several houses on the same couple of streets, since the houses on one block were usually built at the same time to the same details and give way together. Houses with water getting in come first, and if a storm has us stretched we tell you honestly when we can be there.

Yes, and the order we do things in matters. Everything is photographed before containment goes on, since a secured cover hides the evidence and there is no going back for it afterwards. Our written report then describes the damage and connects it to the specific storm, and that link to a dated event is what lets an adjuster separate a covered sudden loss from ordinary wear on a hundred year old house.

Yes, but not with the usual method. The quick way to pin an emergency tarp is to screw or nail straight through the roofing, and on asphalt that is headed for the bin anyway, that costs nothing. On slate, cedar, or original copper and tin work those same fasteners crack or puncture material that is expensive to match, so we hold the cover with battens and weights that stay put in wind off the lake without piercing anything.

Yes, around the clock including weekends and holidays. In a storm off the lake, water that gets in at midnight has hours to spread through old plaster and lath before morning, so answering at night is about keeping the eventual repair small.

Move what you can out from under the water and put a container down to catch it. If a ceiling is bulging and it is safe to reach, a small hole at the low point relieves the weight and prevents a larger collapse. Do not go onto the roof, particularly in the wind that usually accompanies these calls here, that is what we are dispatched for.

Yes. On a Victorian with a half storey and knee walls, meltwater backing up behind ice at the eave usually shows first as a stain on a sloped ceiling or a wet patch behind a knee wall door. We cut channels through the ice so the water can drain off the roof, protect the rooms below, and note the attic conditions that caused the dam so the permanent fix goes after the cause.