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Richmond Hill roofs have more going on than most — valleys, dormers, hips, three or four planes meeting over one house. The details are where they fail, and the details are where we spend our time.(416) 846-3797Or send the form and we'll call you back.
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Bayview Hill and Jefferson set the pattern: large two-storey houses on wide lots, with roofs that were designed to look impressive from the street and are complicated to keep watertight — long valleys that carry a lot of water, dormers on every elevation, and chimneys that pass through the roof at awkward angles. Rouge Woods and Westbrook are the later, slightly denser version of the same idea. Doncrest and the streets around Mill Pond are older and more varied: 1960s and 70s houses that are on their second or third roof, and in Mill Pond itself, some of the original village houses with steep gables and wood details. Oak Ridges is the newest and the most exposed, built up onto the moraine where the wind and snow are a different order from the flatlands south of Major Mackenzie.
The Oak Ridges Moraine is the high ground of York Region, and Richmond Hill's northern neighbourhoods sit on it. That means more wind, more snow, and longer winters than Markham or Vaughan a few kilometres away. Wind works at ridges and rake edges, and on a roof with six or eight planes there are a lot of edges. Snow sits deep in the valleys and on north-facing dormers, and when it thaws, all that water has to go through the valley flashing — the one place a builder was most likely to cut corners. Ice dams form on the eaves below any dormer that isn't ventilated as well as the main attic, which is most of them.
Water that gets past a valley or a dormer on a Richmond Hill house doesn't stop at the attic. It follows the framing down the wall and ends up on top of the foundation — and on the lots in Oak Ridges and Jefferson that were built up with fill, that foundation may already have a settlement crack waiting for it. We handle the roof, the flashing, the masonry and the foundation as one job. One crew traces the water from the roof to the basement, one quote covers what it actually takes to stop it, and the owner who inspected the house is the one who does the work.
Yes. Wind damage on Richmond Hill's exposed slopes and hail damage after summer storms are regular calls. We secure and tarp first if water is coming in, then assess in daylight and give you a written, itemized quote for the permanent repair — with photos of the damage for your records.
We document the damage — photos, a written description of the cause, and an itemized quote — so you have everything an adjuster asks for. We'll talk to your adjuster if you want us to. Whether the claim is approved and for how much is between you and your insurer; we don't inflate quotes to fit a policy.
Yes. Foundation repair is half of what we do. Settlement cracks on fill lots in Oak Ridges and Jefferson, shrinkage cracks on poured walls across the city, and block foundations on older Doncrest and Mill Pond houses — inspected by the owner, fixed from inside or outside depending on what the wall actually needs.
Tell us what's happening and the owner will come out for a free itemized quote.
