There are times where a home gets significantly damaged during a severe weather event. In these cases, the damage to the roof may be so significant that, regardless of the previous condition of the roof, the roof will need to be removed and replaced. In addition, for roofing structures that are a bit older, repairs may be money wasted. The only option is Roof Replacement in Topeka KS.
Spotting Corner Cutting
Understanding the process of replacing the roof will help homeowners to spot when a roofing company is doing a good job and when they may be cutting corners to save money. Unfortunately, cutting corners to save a roofing company money doesn’t typically correlate to the customer saving money. Many times, all this does is leave the homeowner with a bad roof.
Plywood Backing
Removing a standard asphalt shingle roof, which is perhaps the most common type of roof around today, includes removing the shingles and removing the existing substrate tar paper on which the roofing shingles are resting. However, most roofs include a base substrate material, such as plywood. If a roof has been damaged and has been exposed to rainwater, or perhaps a slow leak over time has made contact with the plywood backing, it could become damaged and significantly rotted.
Cutting Corners with Tar paper
Many times, roofing companies will simply put a new layer tar paper over old plywood backing, even damaged backing, and this is automatically going to compromise the new roof structure. In some instances, roofing companies may not even remove the tar paper and simply place new tar paper over the damaged tar paper.
A quality roofing company will either inform the homeowner that repairs will need to be made to certain sections of the plywood backing or, in more extreme cases, the entire plywood backing will need to be removed and replaced with new materials. This is going to increase the cost of Roof Replacement in Topeka KS, but it will make sure that the homeowner gets the best value when paying a company to replace the roof.
If you feel like you have roof repairs that need to be taken care of, or perhaps your roof needs to be replaced, you can learn more about us and the quality services provided here.
