Every Roofing Service We Offer in Janesville, WI

A full reroof in Janesville starts with a question that has nothing to do with shingles: what year was the house built? The answer decides which rulebook governs the work, and it moves the scope more than any brand choice ever will. Wisconsin's Uniform Dwelling Code, chapters SPS 320 through 325 of the state administrative code, took effect June 1, 1980.

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• board sheathing repair
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• two-layer tear-off
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• drip edge and starter course
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Roof Replacement in Janesville, WI

A leak repair in Janesville is unregulated work on every house in the city, whatever year it went up. SPS 320.05 puts repairs and maintenance outside the Uniform Dwelling Code entirely. That is not a loophole somebody found.

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• ceiling stain from roof
• pipe boot replacement
• step flashing repair
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• shingle repair
• attic water stain
• emergency leak repair
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Roof Leak Repair in Janesville, WI

After a storm the first thing we count on a Janesville roof is layers. SPS 321.28 forbids laying a new covering over existing roofing where two or more applications are already down, and pre-1980 houses in this city very often have exactly two. That single clause decides whether your storm job is a recover or a tear-off, and it moves the number by thousands of dollars.

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• roof storm restoration
• layer count inspection
• tear-off versus recover
• storm roof inspection
• deteriorated deck replacement
• adjuster roof scope
• post-storm roof assessment
• wind and hail restoration
• roof moisture reading

Storm Damage Restoration in Janesville, WI

Here is the part almost nobody in this trade says out loud: Wisconsin's Uniform Dwelling Code has no hail requirement. Read SPS 321.28 end to end and there is not a word about impact resistance, Class 4 ratings or UL 2218. Not above the 1980 line and not below it.

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• hail test square
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• soft metal hail check
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Hail Damage Roofing in Janesville, WI

Wind rarely takes a roof that was fastened properly. In Janesville the difference usually comes down to two numbers written into SPS 321.28, and to whether the house sits on the side of the 1980 line where those numbers were legally binding on the installer. The section calls for at least four fasteners per strip shingle, or two per interlocking shingle, unless the manufacturer specifies otherwise, plus a head lap of at least two inches.

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• four nail fastening pattern
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Wind Damage Roofing in Janesville, WI

Our inspection starts in the Rock County assessor's records, not on the ladder. The year the house was built decides which findings are code violations and which are simply bad ideas, and no report that skips that step can tell the two apart. Rock County's housing splits close to two to one.

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• attic sheathing inspection
• real estate roof report
• roof age documentation
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• slope diagram report
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Roof Inspections in Janesville, WI

Asphalt covers almost every roof in Janesville, and the Uniform Dwelling Code is unusually specific about it. What changes with the year on the deed is not the right way to install a shingle. It is who has the standing to make you do it that way.

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• architectural shingles
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• ASTM D3462 shingles
• synthetic underlayment
• felt underlayment
• laminated shingle installation
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Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Janesville, WI

Metal is the one roof covering where the manufacturer's printed instructions become the rule, on both sides of the 1980 line. SPS 321.28 sends other roof coverings to the manufacturer's installation instructions or a nationally recognized standard, and then stops offering specifics of its own. That is more consequential than it sounds.

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Metal Roofing in Janesville, WI

We will install a tile roof in Janesville, and we will spend the first meeting trying to talk you out of it. That is not modesty about our crews. It is what the code and the local building stock together say about tile in southern Wisconsin.

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Tile Roofing in Janesville, WI

Below the slope where shingles work, the Uniform Dwelling Code stops giving instructions and hands the job to the manufacturer. SPS 321.28 says other roof coverings are installed per the manufacturer's instructions or a nationally recognized standard, and that is the whole of the rule. On a Janesville house that usually means a porch roof, a rear addition or a dormer connector, and it means the written specification is the only enforceable document anywhere in the transaction.

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• EPDM rubber roof
• TPO membrane roof
• 60 mil EPDM
• ponding water roof
• tapered insulation
• addition roof membrane
• membrane seam detail
• rolled roofing replacement

Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Janesville, WI

Roof coatings work on metal and on low-slope membranes. They do not work on worn asphalt shingles, and the shingle rejuvenation spray being sold door to door around Janesville is the clearest example of a product that survives entirely on the absence of a rule. Under SPS 321.28 a roof covering goes on per the manufacturer's instructions or a recognized national standard.

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Roof Coatings & Sealing in Janesville, WI

Attic ventilation is governed by a different chapter of the Uniform Dwelling Code than the roof is, and that chapter took effect on a different day. SPS 322 became effective December 1, 1978. The roof chapter did not follow until June 1, 1980, a full eighteen months later.

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• attic ventilation requirements
• ridge vent installation
• soffit intake vents
• net free ventilating area
• attic baffles
• gable vent conversion
• bath fan venting
• attic moisture staining
• balanced attic ventilation

Roof Ventilation in Janesville, WI

Cutting a new skylight into a Janesville roof is an alteration, and whether the state code follows it into your house depends entirely on when the house was built. That is not a technicality. It decides whether anybody reviews the framing you are about to cut through.

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• skylight leak repair
• curb mount skylight
• deck mount skylight
• skylight flashing kit
• skylight replacement
• rafter header framing
• fixed versus venting skylight
• sun tunnel installation
• skylight condensation

Skylights in Janesville, WI

The Uniform Dwelling Code has essentially nothing to say about gutters. SPS 321.28 requires that roofs be designed and constructed to assure drainage of water and that fasteners be corrosion resistant, and that is where it stops, on both sides of the 1980 line. That is worth knowing because it explains the market.

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• downspout extensions
• gutter guards
• fascia gutter replacement
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• foundation drainage downspout

Gutters & Downspouts in Janesville, WI

Soffit is not trim. It is the intake half of the ventilation arithmetic in SPS 322.39, which requires the remainder of the net free area to be distributed low once the high venting is counted. Block the soffit and the ridge vent above it stops doing very much at all.

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• soffit replacement
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• aluminum wrapped fascia
• soffit intake ventilation
• eave repair
• attic baffle installation
• fascia and gutter replacement
• wood soffit restoration

Fascia & Soffit in Janesville, WI

Chimney flashing is one of the few roof details the Uniform Dwelling Code addresses directly, and its best clause is about width. SPS 321.28 requires a cricket where a chimney runs over 30 inches across, and Janesville's older houses are full of wide chimneys that never got one. The same section requires flashing at the junction of chimneys and roofs, in all valleys and around all roof openings, with the chimney flashing carried at least six inches up.

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• chimney leak repair
• masonry crown repair
• chimney saddle framing
• abandoned chimney removal
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Chimney Flashing in Janesville, WI

Emergency tarping is exempt work on every house in Janesville. SPS 320.05 puts repairs and maintenance outside the Uniform Dwelling Code entirely, whatever year the house was built, so there is no permit to pull and no inspection to schedule before somebody covers a hole. We say that plainly because the confusion gets used.

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Emergency Tarping in Janesville, WI

The Uniform Dwelling Code stops at two families. Add a third unit and the building leaves chapters SPS 320 through 325 altogether and falls under the Wisconsin Commercial Building Code, chapters SPS 361 through 366, which is built on the International Building Code. In Janesville that line runs straight through the housing stock.

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Commercial Roofing in Janesville, WI

Code upgrade coverage is where a lot of Janesville claims go sideways. Ordinance and law coverage pays to bring damaged work up to current code, and on a house built before June 1, 1980 there is frequently no current state code for the reroof to be brought up to. SPS 320.05 puts pre-code dwellings, and alterations to them, outside the Uniform Dwelling Code.

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• supplement documentation
• recoverable depreciation
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• itemized roof estimate
• layer count documentation
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Insurance Claim Help in Janesville, WI

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Janesville and south central Wisconsin. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.