How a Elizabeth job runs, step by step: free quote, written scope, written quote, sign-off - and the cheaper option named when there is one.
Free inspection of the roof and the roof space, the cause named in writing, then a written quote.
Tell us when it leaks -- in rain, in driving rain, or during a thaw -- and what is under the wet area. Those two answers narrow the cause further than a photograph does, and the thaw answer changes the diagnosis entirely.
Unusual order and a deliberate one. The underside of the deck shows where water has actually traveled, which is normally uphill of the stain. Then the roof, with the eaves and the flashings looked at by hand rather than from the ladder.
Named: which flashing, which lap, which upstand, or which part of the roof space is losing heat. Where the honest answer is that the fix is not roofing, that is written down too, with what it would take.
Containment first if it is live, the repair when the roof is dry, and a before-and-after set that is yours whatever you decide to do next.
Published Union County ranges, with your written quote after the visit.
Minor work from $150.
The roofing part only.
$400-900 for a small isolated leak.
Drainage first, membrane second.
Per repair.
$300-900 for standard flashing.
Containment quoted separately.
A large share of the work on this site is second-time work, and the reason is almost always diagnosis rather than workmanship.
It enters at a junction -- a flashing, an upstand, a penetration, a lap -- then runs along the top of a rafter until it meets a low point and falls. On a shallow pitch that can be several feet from where it got in, so the wet ceiling is evidence of where the water ended up, not where it started.
The underside of the deck carries tide marks that show the direction of travel, and daylight shows through anything genuinely open. Ten minutes up there regularly saves an afternoon of guessing on the roof, and it is the part most quotes skip.
Leaks in driving rain but not in vertical rain: an upstand or a lap. Leaks every time it rains: something genuinely open. Leaks during a thaw with no rain at all: an ice dam, and the covering above may be perfectly sound.
If the cause is heat escaping into the roof space, the fix is air sealing, insulation and ventilation. We will say so and write it down, rather than selling you a repair that buys one winter and comes back.
Worth knowing before you start ringing round, and worth acting on before the first freeze rather than after it.
Northern roofs do not fail steadily. They fail in the freeze and in the first thaw after it, which means every roofer in Union County takes the same calls in the same two weeks. A roof that could have been surveyed comfortably in October becomes a queue in January, and the repair that could have been planned becomes an emergency.
The other thing about those two weeks: it is the worst possible time to diagnose anything. Snow on the roof hides the covering, the ice hides the eaves, and nobody can safely inspect a valley. If your ceiling stained last winter and has not since, that is the survey to book now rather than the one to book when it happens again.
A free written quote, no obligation.