Repairs we get called to hereHail you cannot see, brick, and humid attics
St. Louis repair calls cluster around three things: storm damage that leaves no obvious mark, the junctions a brick house creates, and moisture that never came through the roof at all.
Hail bruising is the repair nobody knows they need
A stone can take the granule layer off a shingle without cracking it. The roof sheds water afterwards exactly as before, so nothing announces itself — and the exposed mat then ages several times faster than the rest of the slope.
That is why a post-storm inspection is worth having even when the roof looks fine, and why the documentation matters more than the repair on the day.
Brick makes junctions, and junctions leak
A brick house has chimneys, parapets and shared walls where a frame house has a simple edge. Every one of those is flashing cut into mortar, and every one is a place a previous repair may have reached for sealant instead.
When the mortar itself has gone, flashing into it will not hold. We would rather point at the tuckpointing than sell you a flashing repair that fails in two winters.
Not every stain is a leak
Humid summers and an under-ventilated attic will condense moisture on the underside of the deck and drop it onto the insulation below. The staining looks like a roof leak, appears in weather that has nothing to do with rain, and no amount of work on the covering will change it.
We check the attic before quoting a repair. Telling somebody their roof is fine is a shorter conversation than the one after a repair that fixed nothing.
The low-slope sections go first
Rear additions, porch roofs and dormer tops on the older city stock sit close to flat against a steep main roof. Water moves slowly across them and sits at the seams, so they reach the end of their life well ahead of the roof they are attached to.
Those are frequently repairable on their own, and replacing one low-slope section is a far smaller job than the whole roof it adjoins.