Maintenance

Roof Maintenance

Delta Roofing Company and many other roofing manufacturers' require annual roof maintenance to keep the roof warranty in force.

Failure to do so will decrease your roof's life dramatically. Delta can do annual maintenance for you, to keep you covered. The following are a few of the actions to complete (yourself or professionally) before ANY rain arrives:

1. Clean gutters, down spouts, scuppers, and drain boxes.  Leaves and debris can back up an entire gutter system and the overflowing pipes can cause leaks and damages.
   
   
2. Clear the valleys and waterways on flat roofs and pooling areas.  Leaves and other debris can block the flow of water in valleys or drainage paths.  This must be cleared out regularly, especially if you have trees that overhang your roof.  Pooling areas from dirt piles where rotted debris literally eats through your roof and sometimes plants grow in these areas.  This will ruin your roof.  Excessive pooling on flat roofs and poor drainage from leaves stacked on tile roofs is especially bad.
   
   
3. Check all roof penetrations, roof hatches, doorways, vents and duct roof penetrations.  Leaks most often come from pipes, vents, or flashings.  This is caused by the shrinking away of the plastic cement, as it dries.  Once it was oil laden and filled the crack, and now its dried up and this leaves a hole for water to enter.  Check around all metal parts where it comes in contact with the roof or pipe.  If there is a crack, fill it using a caulking gun or some plastic cement.
   
   
4. Check around each of those areas as set out in our annual roof maintenance record if you have it on your roof: Skylights, roofing metal at bottom of walls, metal valleys, metal at the top of walls, decks, drains though walls of roofs or decks, transitions between two roof slopes, additions, connections to main building, glass on roof or windows above roof, air conditioning unit at the base, air conditioning ducts along entire roof, exposed ducts and at any roof duct penetration.

Costs

The cost for maintenance is approximately 1.25% of the re-roofing cost for that size roof. 
NOTE: Older roofs may break down in new areas and leaks may appear after our work is done; these new leaks would not be covered by the original maintenance order unless spelled out on our first service order.  Additional charges are required for extra work if needed later.

Naturally, Delta Roofing Company still provides free local estimates, even with fuel cost rising.