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Roof Maintenance Plan

Nobody told you a roof needs maintenance. That’s why most of them leak early.

A Grandmark crew member on a single-ply membrane roof, working alongside a flashed rooftop vent penetration

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Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Visalia, Sacramento and Bakersfield.

Most of what we find on a maintenance visit costs almost nothing to fix that day.

  • AnnualInspection,
    recorded on video
  • IncludedMinor repairs
    on the visit
  • PriorityScheduling when
    the weather turns
  • ReportDocumented roof
    condition, dated
  • Plumbing vent seals fail here around year ten — before anything else does
  • Tile roofs need clearing, and almost nobody in the Valley does it

Get on the plan

Two minutes, three questions. We’ll come out, look at the roof, and tell you what shape it’s in.

Free inspection for homeowners · $299 for real estate transactions

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The thing nobody says

Your roof is the only part of the house you never look at

People service the air conditioner. They flush the water heater, change the furnace filter, get the gutters done. Almost nobody has anything done to the roof between the day the house was built and the day water comes through a ceiling.

That’s not carelessness. It’s that nobody ever told them to. Roofs get sold with a warranty and a handshake, and the next conversation anyone has about that roof is usually a quote for replacing it.

By the time you can see a problem from the ground, it has been a problem for years.

Here’s the part that actually matters. Most of what shortens a roof’s life in this Valley is cheap to deal with and catastrophic to ignore. Not the shingle. Not the tile. The small details around them, which fail on a schedule you can predict.

Central Valley specifically

Two things that fail here faster than the roof itself

These aren’t general roofing problems. They come from this climate and from how roofs in this market get treated.

Plumbing vent seals, around year ten

We go from triple digits to freezing and back every year. That swing works the rubber seals around plumbing vents harder than almost anything else on the roof, and here they typically start cracking at about ten years — long before the roof itself is anywhere near done. A cracked boot is an open hole directly above your ceiling.

Debris under tile and in valleys

Tile roofs need clearing and hardly anyone in this area does it, or does it properly. Debris packs in under the tiles and fills the valleys, water stops running where it’s meant to and starts backing up sideways, and the underlayment beneath takes the damage. That’s a leak on a roof whose tile has thirty years left in it.

Everything other trades leave behind

Solar mounts lagged through without proper flashing. Rooftop units set down and never tied in. Cracked tile from someone walking to their own equipment in work boots. None of it gets reported to you, and all of it is visible from the roof on an annual look.

A cracked vent seal is a small job on the day we spot it. Left alone for three winters it’s wet insulation, stained drywall and rotted sheathing, and now you’re paying for a repair plus everything the water reached on the way down.

That’s the entire argument for maintenance, and it’s why we’d rather sell you an annual visit than the replacement it prevents.

What you get

What’s actually in the plan

An annual inspection, recorded

We come out once a year and go over the whole roof — penetrations, valleys, flashings, transitions, the vent seals, whatever equipment is up there. It’s recorded, the same way every inspection we do is recorded, so you see what we saw instead of taking our word for it.

Minor repairs handled on the visit

Debris cleared. Sealant renewed where it’s gone. Small things fixed while we’re standing on them rather than written into a quote for next month. Most of what kills a roof early is exactly this size.

Priority scheduling

When the first real storm of the season hits, every roofer in the Valley is booked solid inside a day. Plan members go to the front of that queue. This is the part people don’t value until the January they need it.

A documented, dated record of your roof

Every visit produces a record of what condition the roof was in and when. That matters for two reasons. If you sell, you can show a buyer the roof was looked after instead of arguing about a home inspector’s photo. And if you ever file a claim, you have documented roof condition for your carrier from before the damage rather than after — which is the difference between a claim about storm damage and an argument about deferred maintenance.

[NEEDS: annual plan price, whether it’s per-visit or per-year, and whether it’s discounted or included for customers we’ve already re-roofed]

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Does a roof really need maintenance?

Yes, and in this climate more than most. The temperature swing here cracks plumbing vent seals at around ten years, well before the roof is worn out. Tile roofs collect debris that stops water running where it should. Neither is expensive to deal with on a scheduled visit. Both are expensive once they’ve been leaking through a ceiling.

How often do you come out?

Once a year as standard. Roofs with heavy tree cover, a lot of rooftop equipment, or a history of debris in the valleys sometimes warrant more, and we’ll say so rather than sell you visits you don’t need.

What if you find something big?

You get told, with the footage, and a written flat-rate price before anything happens. Nothing beyond the minor work included in the visit gets done without you agreeing to it first.

Do I have to have bought a roof from you?

No. We’ll take on a roof somebody else installed. The first visit tells us what condition it’s in, and if it’s too far gone for maintenance to be honest value we’ll tell you that rather than take the money.

Is this worth it on a newer roof?

Especially on a newer roof. Ten years is roughly when vent seals start going and when the first solar or HVAC work usually gets done up there. Catching that on a roof with twenty good years left is where maintenance pays for itself several times over.

Find out what shape your roof is in before the weather does.

Free inspection, recorded so you can see it yourself, and an honest answer about whether a plan is worth it on your roof.