Metal roof repair in Scottsdale

Across most of the Valley, metal is something over the carport that nobody looks at. In Scottsdale it is frequently the main roof, it is frequently standing seam, and it is frequently a deliberate part of how the house is meant to look.

Desert contemporary and Sonoran style architecture puts long low slope planes right where you see them from the driveway and from the street. The panel finish, the seam spacing and the trim lines are design decisions somebody made and paid for. Which means a repair here has two tests to pass rather than one. It has to be watertight, and it has to be invisible.

That is a real constraint and it changes what we do. Sourcing a panel in the right profile, gauge and finish matters more here than anywhere else on our list, and sometimes it means waiting rather than fitting something close. We would rather tell you it is a week away than leave a bright stripe across a roof you chose for how it looks.

Then there is the HOA question. Through most of north Scottsdale, exterior changes are governed, and colour and profile matching are not a preference, they are a requirement. We work to a match and we will tell you honestly beforehand how close we expect to get.

The other Scottsdale specific problem is solar. Rooftop array penetration here is high, and a great many otherwise sound metal roofs now have mounting feet bolted through them by an installer whose expertise was electrical rather than roofing. Those feet, and the flashing disturbed around them, are a large share of the leaks we chase in this city. Standing seam also fails differently from a screw down roof: there are no exposed fasteners to back out, so instead you get seam separation, clip failure and movement problems.