Free Roofing Inspection
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What the inspection covers
A useful inspection is not a walk around the outside of the house. Ours works through the whole roof system:
- The roof surface. Shingle or membrane condition, granule loss, lifted or missing pieces, hail bruising and wind-broken seals.
- Every penetration. Pipe boots, vents, satellite and solar mounts, skylights. These are the most common leak sources and the most commonly skipped in a quick look.
- Flashing and transitions. Chimneys, roof-to-wall junctions, step flashing and counterflashing, and whether a kickout flashing is present where it should be.
- Valleys and edges. Valley construction, drip edge, starter course and the perimeter, which is where wind damage begins.
- Gutters and drainage. Including what is in them, since washed-out granules are evidence in their own right.
- The attic, where accessible. Damp insulation, staining on the underside of the decking, daylight at penetrations, and whether the soffit intake vents are actually clear.
- Ventilation balance. Intake against exhaust. Getting this wrong shortens the life of any roof, and it is the most commonly missed item on any roof we look at.
If a leak cannot be traced from the surface on a commercial building, infrared scanning shows trapped moisture inside the assembly, and core sampling confirms what the layers actually are.
What you get afterward
- A written report, not a verbal summary. Something you can keep, compare against later, or hand to an insurer.
- Photographs of anything we found, so you are not taking our word for the condition of something you cannot see.
- An estimate of remaining service life, which is the single most useful number for planning.
- A clear separation of urgent from eventual. What needs doing now, what can be planned, and what simply needs watching.
That report is worth having even if you do nothing with it. It is useful when you sell, useful at insurance renewal, and useful as a baseline if a storm arrives next season.
When a roof inspection is worth booking
- After any significant storm, even when the roof looks untouched from the ground. Wind can break a shingle seal and set it back down; hail can bruise the mat without cracking the surface.
- Once the roof passes ten years. Rubber components such as pipe boots typically fail well before the shingles do.
- Before buying or selling. A written condition report either removes a negotiating point or gives you one.
- Before installing solar. If the roof has under fifteen years left, replacing it first avoids paying to remove and reinstall the array later.
- When you see a stain and cannot find the cause. Ceiling stains frequently appear several feet from the actual hole, because water runs along the underside of the decking before it drops.
- Annually on a commercial building, or twice yearly — and check your warranty, since many require documented inspection as a condition of coverage.
Why it is free, and what happens next
Being straightforward about this: the inspection is free because it is how we quote work, and a proportion of the people we inspect for go on to hire us. What it is not is a pretext for pressure. If your roof has ten good years left we will tell you that, in writing, and there is no obligation attached to the report.
If work is needed, you get a written scope you can compare against other quotes — see how to read a roofing estimate for what should be on it. If the damage followed a storm, storm restoration covers how claims are handled. And if cost is the obstacle, roof financing is worth understanding before you rule anything out.
Inspections are available across all eleven of our markets — see our service area. Ongoing cover is available through our roof maintenance program, and residential roof inspection covers the homeowner process in more detail.
Free roof inspection questions
Yes, with no obligation. It is how we quote work, so a proportion of people we inspect for go on to hire us — but you get the written report either way, including when our answer is that your roof has years left and needs nothing.
Typically under an hour for a residential roof, longer on a large or complex roof or where attic access is involved. Commercial buildings depend on size and whether infrared scanning or core sampling is needed.
It helps, so we can walk you through what we found and get into the attic if access is needed, but it is not essential. The written report and photographs cover everything either way.
Where it is safe to do so, yes — a proper inspection means looking at penetrations, flashing and valleys close up rather than from the ground. Where the roof is unsafe to walk, we say so and inspect it by other means rather than risk causing damage.
A written report with photographs, an assessment of each part of the roof system, an estimate of remaining service life, and a clear separation of what needs doing now from what can be planned or watched.
Yes, particularly past ten years or after a storm. Most of what shortens a roof’s life — failed pipe boots, broken shingle seals, blocked soffit intake, hail bruising — causes no leak at all until it suddenly does.