12 services · Toronto
Roofing Services in Toronto
What each job involves, how urgent it really is, and what to do before anyone arrives. The tag on each card is the honest answer on urgency — most of this can wait, and a couple of things cannot.
Every job, and how urgent it really is
Start from what you have found
Each of these points at a different job, and getting it wrong wastes a visit.
Water coming in right now
Get something under it, stay clear of any bulge, then call. Stopping it is the first visit. Emergency Roof Repair →
A stain that appears only in heavy rain
Usually flashing rather than the covering. Note which wind direction brings it. Roof Repair →
Ice along the roof edge and a wet ceiling
An ice dam. Do not chip at it — it needs steaming off, and then the cause found. Ice Dam Removal →
Shingles gone after a windstorm
Photograph it from the ground for the insurer, then get it covered before the next rain. Emergency Roof Repair →
Water standing on a flat roof
The leak inside is rarely under the hole. It is a seam or a drain, and a different trade from shingles. Flat Roof Repair →
A stain near the chimney
Almost always the flashing where the chimney passes through the roof, not the brickwork. Chimney Flashing Repair →
A quote for a whole new roof and no second opinion
Buy an inspection first. It costs a fraction of the roof and it settles the question. Roof Inspection →
Frost on the underside of the roof boards
A ventilation problem, and usually the reason behind the ice dams as well. Attic Ventilation →
Why the parts you cannot see decide the roof
Most roofs in this city do not fail because the shingles wore out on schedule. They fail early at the joints — where the roof meets a chimney, a wall, a vent or a valley — and they fail early because the attic underneath was too warm and too damp. The covering gets blamed because it is the part you can see.
Freeze-thaw is what makes Toronto harder on a roof than a milder city. Water that gets into a small gap during a thaw freezes overnight and expands, and the gap is bigger in the morning. That is why a leak found in November and left until spring is a different repair by March, and why the same spot dams every single winter until somebody fixes the reason rather than the ice.
Ventilation is the quiet one. Intake at the soffits and exhaust at the ridge keep the underside of the roof close to outdoor temperature. Block the soffits with insulation pushed into the eaves — extremely common, and usually done with good intentions — and the attic warms, the snow above melts, the meltwater refreezes at the cold edge, and you have an ice dam every year regardless of how good the shingles are.
So the useful first call is somebody who will look in the attic as well as on the roof, photograph what they found, and tell you plainly whether this is a repair or a replacement — including the times when the honest answer is that the roof has years left and the money is better spent on the ventilation.
How it works
Three steps, and you decide at the end of them.
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You call and describe the problem
Tell us what you have noticed and where — the room, the smell, the noise, how long it has been going on. Give us your postal code and we will match you to a licensed company covering your area. There is no form to fill in.
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A local company takes it from there
They discuss the problem with you directly, arrange a time to inspect, and agree the work and the price with you before anything starts. That conversation is between you and them.
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You decide whether to go ahead
You are under no obligation. If the quote or the approach is not what you wanted, you are free to say no and call someone else.
Find your town
What the work involves locally depends on where the ductwork is and how hard the system runs.