Metal roof repair · Vancouver Island
Get your metal roof watertight again.
Fasteners, flashings, penetrations and laps put right, with replacement trim formed in our own shop to match what is already on the roof.
Now booking. Tell us what the roof is doing and we’ll email you a time.
Nanaimo, Parksville and Qualicum, Port Alberni, Courtenay and Comox, Duncan and the Cowichan Valley, Greater Victoria, Campbell River and the Gulf Islands.
What usually needs fixing
A metal roof that is leaking is usually telling you about a detail rather than about the panel. Exposed fasteners back out and their washers harden, flashings lift at a rake or a valley, a penetration was sealed rather than flashed, and a lap that was never quite right finally finds a wind direction that pushes water uphill.
Fasteners and washers
On an exposed-fastener roof the washers are a wear item. They harden, the screws back out with thermal movement, and every one is a hole through the panel.
Flashings and transitions
Eave, rake, ridge, valley, and anywhere the roof meets a wall. This is where most water actually gets in.
Penetrations
Vents, stacks and anything added after the roof went on. A penetration that was sealed with caulk rather than flashed properly has a limited life.
Storm and impact damage
A branch down, a lifted panel after a big blow, or a section damaged by someone working on the roof.
Repair or replace
A roof with a couple of bad details and plenty of life left is a repair. A roof where the washers have gone everywhere at once, the coating is chalking off and the fixings have enlarged their holes is telling you something else.
We will tell you which one you have, so the money goes on the fix that lasts rather than one that is back next winter.
Matching an existing roof
The awkward part of any metal repair is matching what is already there — the profile, the rib spacing, the colour and the trim shapes. Ordering that in is how a repair turns into a six-week wait.
Because the machine is in our own shop in Nanaimo, we can often form a matching piece to the length the job needs. We will be straight with you where an existing profile or colour cannot be matched exactly.
Price your roof in about two minutes
Wondering whether it is time to replace rather than repair? Outline your roof on the satellite map and see an estimated range for a new metal roof straight away.
Repair questions.
Yes. Most repair work is on roofs somebody else put on.
Often, because we form our own. Profile, rib spacing and colour all matter, and we will tell you plainly if an exact match is not possible.
It depends on whether the problem is a few details or the whole fixing pattern. If the washers have gone everywhere at once, patching buys you a season.
Tell us what is happening and we will tell you honestly how quickly we can get there, and give you a time we can keep.
Where water shows inside is rarely where it got in. That is most of the diagnostic work, and it is why we want to look rather than quote from a description.
Tell us what the roof is doing.
Send the address, a photo or two of the problem and of the roof generally, and we will email you back.