Free Roof Inspections in Broken Arrow, OK
You'll have a written account of what's up on your roof and what shape it's in, before there's a price on anything. It says the same thing whether there's a job in it or not.
An inspection puts somebody up on your roof.
Sometimes a roof inspection starts with a leak and sometimes with a lender or an insurer wanting something in writing, and at Broken Arrow Roofing Co you get the same visit either way.
Give it two more seasons and it's a different job. A mat the hail bruised this spring doesn't have to leak this year, and by the time it does, the decking under it has been wet a while. That gap between the damage and the leak is what your roofer is up there for.
What a Broken Arrow roof inspection covers
An inspection is a walk of the roof plus the parts of it that give out before the shingles do. Here's what the roofer is checking on the way across, and roughly the order it happens in.
- 01The field, slope by slope
- Granule loss, bruised mat, cracked tabs, and tabs the wind has lifted.
- 02Valleys and where planes meet
- Two planes dumping into one channel, which is why valleys wear early.
- 03Flashing and penetrations
- Chimney, wall step flashing, vent boots and anything cut through the deck.
- 04Ridge and hip lines
- The highest courses, taking weather from every direction at once.
- 05Gutters and soft metal
- Dents here often date a storm the shingles kept quiet about.
- 06The attic, as needed
- Gone into when the evidence points inside and the hatch allows it.
- 07Photographs, as they go
- Your roofer photographs what turns up where it sits, before anything moves.
A roof that's already leaking gets that same walk plus a hunt for where the water comes in, which is usually not directly above the stain. If what turns up is one failed detail instead of a worn-out roof, that's a roof repair, and the write-up says so.
Up, across, and written down.
The walk is the same on a 1990s house off Main Street and on a build ten years old. What changes is what turns up, and none of it goes in the write-up until your roofer's been over the whole roof.
Up the ladder
Your roofer sets the ladder and gets onto the roof itself. The mat, the seal strips and the flashing all take a hand on them to check, so that part can't happen any other way.
Across the slopes
Slope by slope, then the valleys, the ridge and hip lines, the flashing at walls and pipes, and the soft metal along the edges. Photographs go with it as it happens, so what the write-up says has a picture behind it.
Written down
You end up with what was found, where it sits and what it means for the roof, with the photographs attached. If work is called for, the estimate comes with it, itemized.
When a roof is worth inspecting
Tulsa County's storm record carries 30 separate hail days across the last four years, which works out to seven or eight a year. That count is county-wide, so it tells you how often hail falls around here and nothing at all about one address.
- After a hail day nearby: the damage people miss is the kind that won't leak for another two or three years.
- Before you put the house up: a roof with its condition already documented is one less thing an offer turns on.
- When the same spot leaks twice: a patch that failed in one place usually means the problem sits somewhere upslope of it.
- When the roof's age is unknown: with no paperwork behind it, the covering has to be dated from up on the roof itself.
- When a lender or insurer asks: what they want is a dated statement of condition, and that starts with the roofer going up.
Two of these showing on one roof is usually enough on its own. If somebody knocked and that's why you're here, there's a separate write-up on picking who you let up on the roof.
What a Broken Arrow inspection does and does not settle
These come up before a first visit more often than after one. Where the answer depends on a lender, an insurer or the city, it says so.
Q1What's the catch on a free roof inspection?
Q2Is this the same as the city's roof inspection?
Q3Can I get a roof certification for a lender or an insurer?
Q4Should I bother if nothing is leaking?
Q5Who is going to be on my roof?
Book a free roof inspection in Broken Arrow
Fill in the address and say whether it's a leak, a storm, or just the roof's age, and a local roofer comes out and gets on it. You don't have to decide anything on the ladder, and the figure holds long enough to think it over.