Roof Flashing Repair in Raleigh, NC

If your roof has been patched twice in the same spot and still leaks, it is almost certainly flashing, not shingles. Free inspection.

Somebody has been up there. Maybe twice. And the same corner of the same room still gets a wet spot every time it rains hard. When a leak survives two repairs, the problem is almost never the shingles, because shingles are the easy thing to notice and replace. It is the metal. Flashing is where roofs actually leak, and it is the part most repairs skip.

When You Need Flashing Repair

Flashing is the metal that handles every place a roof stops being a simple plane. Around the chimney. Down the center of a valley where two slopes meet. Around vent pipes and exhaust stacks. Where a roof runs into a vertical wall, like a dormer or a second story. Anywhere a skylight is set in. If your leak is near any of those, start here.

The signs are a persistent leak in the same place, rust streaks running down from a chimney, metal that has lifted, buckled or pulled away, and visible caulk or roofing tar smeared around a penetration. That last one is the giveaway. Sealant is what gets used when someone does not want to do the flashing properly, and in Raleigh sun it dries, cracks and fails within a few years. If you can see a lot of black goop up there, the repair underneath it was never really a repair.

Our Flashing Repair Process

Chimneys need two pieces working together, and this is what most people get wrong. Step flashing is the L-shaped metal that layers into each course of shingles going up the side. Counter flashing is the piece that is set into a groove cut in the masonry and laps down over the step flashing, so water running down the brick is thrown out onto the roof instead of behind it. Skip the counter flashing, rely on sealant, and you have a leak on a timer. We do both.

Valleys we address by pulling the shingles back and replacing the valley metal, because a valley carries more water than any other part of your roof and a pinhole there matters. Vent pipes get new boots rather than a collar of sealant around the old cracked one. Wall intersections get step flashing woven into the courses properly. Everything gets photographed before it is covered back up, so you can see what you paid for.

Roof Flashing Repair Cost in Raleigh

Flashing repairs generally fall within the $600 to $1,500 range that covers most roof repairs, though a full chimney reflash with counter flashing cut into the masonry sits toward the upper end because it is masonry work as well as roofing.

The number is driven by how much metal has to come out, whether the surrounding shingles can be reused or need replacing, and whether any decking underneath has rotted from however long the leak has been running. We look, we photograph, we price it in writing.

Why Choose Us

Flashing is slower and less profitable than replacing shingles, which is exactly why it gets skipped so often. We are fully insured with general liability and workers' compensation, and we hand you proof of it along with your estimate. Bryan owns this company and has spent 14 years in the trades, so the read you get comes from someone who has done this work himself. Estimates are free and we can usually be out within one to three days. Your price is written down before anything starts, your workmanship warranty runs 2 to 12 years depending on the project, in writing, and financing is available.

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Leak Keeps Coming Back?

Free inspection. If it is flashing, we will show you the photos and fix it properly. Call (984) 370-4330.