Metal roof repair in Gilbert

Gilbert was farmland until recently, and most of it was built out after 1995 across a flat agricultural grid. The streets run straight, the lots are wide, and the landscaping is young. What that adds up to on a windy day is a town with very little to slow air down.

Older parts of the Valley have decades of mature growth and a dense, irregular street pattern that breaks up wind before it reaches a roof. Gilbert largely does not. When a monsoon microburst comes down and spreads out, it gets a clean run across open ground, and it arrives at your roof with more energy and from a less predictable direction.

Metal roofs in Gilbert are mostly on secondary structures, which are exactly the structures least able to resist that. Freestanding ramadas, patio covers, RV and boat covers, casitas, and shop buildings on the acreage lots that have not been subdivided yet. A freestanding ramada is a large flat surface on posts with airflow underneath it, and airflow underneath is what generates uplift. These structures are engineered for it, but they are engineered assuming their fastenings are intact.

That is the chain we see over and over here. A couple of fasteners on a gable trim or a leading edge back out over two summers. Nobody notices, because nothing is leaking. Then a microburst gets under that slightly loose edge, and what would have been a non event becomes a length of trim in the neighbour's yard and panels folded back. Which means the highest value work in Gilbert is not repair at all. It is going over the trim fastenings before June.