Salish Roofing

Roofing around the Puget Sound

A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers. Describe the roof and what you are seeing, and you will be pointed to someone who covers your area.

A roof almost never fails in the middle. It fails where it meets something else. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field — the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1 — ridge caps 1 Ridge caps — the first to work loose Point 2 — the field of the roof 2 The field — granule loss and age Point 3 — valleys 3 Valleys carry runoff from two slopes at once Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — chimney, and where the garage roof meets the wall Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — ice dams push water back uphill

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — a wall, a chimney, a vent, another roof plane, or the open edge at the eave. That is why the first useful question about any leak is not what the shingles look like, but what is nearby.

The work

The Sound, city by city

Eleven cities around the Puget Sound — from Tacoma’s craftsman blocks to the plat-era suburbs whose roofs were installed street by street, and are turning over the same way.