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Roofing Contractor in Fountain Hills, AZ

Hillside homes assessed on site. Multi-level roofs quoted from the actual grade, not satellite imagery.

Hillside Lots Change the Job

Fountain Hills is built into terrain rather than onto it. Homes step down slopes, sit on cut and fill pads, and follow the contours around the McDowell Mountains, and that geography drives almost everything about roofing here. Multi level homes on a grade produce multiple roof planes at different elevations, often with sections of roof directly below and adjacent to other sections, connected by transitions and step flashings. Water crossing from an upper roof to a lower one is a designed condition here rather than an exception, and it is where a great many hillside leaks originate. Access is the second consequence. Getting equipment, material and a dumpster positioned on a steep lot with a sloped driveway and limited street frontage takes planning. Fall protection requirements are more involved on a roof with significant drop on the downhill side. None of that is unusual for us, but it does mean a Fountain Hills estimate has to be built from the actual site rather than from square footage, and we would rather explain why than hand you a number that turns out to be wrong.

Elevation, Wind and Weather That Is Not Quite Phoenix

Fountain Hills sits higher than the valley floor and more exposed than most of the metro, and residents here will tell you the weather behaves somewhat differently than it does in the middle of Phoenix. Wind in particular arrives with less standing in its way. For roofs, wind is the relevant variable. Monsoon outflow lifts and shifts tile, breaks shingle seals, and works parapet cap flashings loose. On a hillside home the exposure varies dramatically by elevation across the property, so it is common to find one plane of a roof considerably more weathered than another on the same house. Because of that, we assess planes independently rather than characterizing a roof as a single condition. Sometimes the right answer on a hillside home is doing the exposed elevations now and the sheltered ones later, and that is a legitimate way to sequence the expense rather than a compromise.

Mixed Systems and the Transitions Between Them

The architecture here runs from seventies and eighties construction through contemporary custom homes, and it is common to have more than one roof system on a single house. Tile on the visible pitched sections, flat or foam roofing on the areas behind parapets or over lower level rooms and garages. Two things follow. First, the flat portions are almost always the neglected ones, because nobody sees them and they need periodic recoating that never gets scheduled until something leaks. Second, the transition where a pitched tile section meets a flat section is one of the most reliable leak points on any Valley home, and it gets detailed particularly badly when the two halves of the roof were done at different times by different contractors. We handle both systems and the transition between them, which is the specific reason we prefer to do a mixed roof as one job rather than half of one. Our tile work and flat work are the same crew answering to the same standard.

What We Do in Fountain Hills

Tile roof replacement and underlayment lift and resets, flat and foam roofing and recoating, shingle roof replacement, roof repair with 24 hour emergency response, and fascia repair and replacement. We do not work on metal roofing. Fountain Hills is on the northeast edge of our service map from our Glendale base, so we schedule it alongside other East Valley and north Valley work. Estimates and job scheduling run normally, while emergency response takes longer to reach here than to the west Valley, and we will give you a realistic window rather than an optimistic one. Arizona ROC 352782, licensed, bonded, fully insured, BBB Accredited. Free inspections with photographs, and a written estimate with three underlayment options rather than one lump sum.

Hillside home with a roof that needs a real look? Call (480) 258-0925 for a free inspection.

Call (480) 258-0925 or request an estimate online.

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Underlayment warranties from 10 to 30 years.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It can, and it is worth understanding why. Multi level homes on a grade have more roof planes at different elevations, more transitions and step flashings between them, and more involved access, staging and fall protection requirements. Complexity and access drive the cost more than square footage does, which is why we build the estimate from the site rather than from an aerial measurement.
Yes, and it is common on hillside properties. Exposure to sun and wind varies significantly across elevations on the same house, so one plane can be considerably more weathered than another. We assess planes independently rather than treating the roof as one uniform condition, and sometimes the sensible plan is to address the exposed elevations first and sequence the rest.
We think so. The transition where a pitched tile section meets a flat section is one of the most common leak points on a Valley home, and it tends to be detailed poorly when the two halves get done at different times by different contractors. We handle both systems with the same crew, which puts responsibility for the transition in one place.
It should be inspected rather than assumed, because it depends on the coating, the thickness applied and the exposure of that particular section. The practical rule is to recoat while the foam underneath is still sound and dry. Doing it on schedule costs a fraction of replacing a foam roof that was left until moisture got into it, and these sections get neglected because nobody sees them.
Longer than to the west Valley, since we are based in Glendale and Fountain Hills is on the northeast edge of our service map. We run 24 hour emergency response and we will tell you a realistic arrival window rather than saying we are on the way and turning up two hours later. For active leaks the first priority is tarping and stopping the water.