Did your roofers, CUT CORNERS, when they installed your valley shingles?
Frankly, you'd better hope so! Wait, what? Drew diagnoses a roof leak and explains why its critical to cut the valley corners. Water is relentless, and if your roofer gave it a horizontal path to travel, then its possible the next deluge we receive could result in water finding a way into your Forever Home. Water can be pumped and pushed horizontally, until it finds a gap in the shingles or the underlayment that allows it to get into your attic space, and drip down onto your drywall ceilings. Watch this video to learn more, and ask any roofing contractors you are interviewing to explain to you how they trim and finish a closed valley before you sign a contract with them.
Here's another example from Jennersville Pennsylvania where a careless roofer was rushing at the end of the job, and ran his knife through the brand-new shingles, and failed to clip the corners in the valley as required by the shingle manufacturers installation instructions.
Are metal ridge vents allowing rain and snow into your attic?
Lets talk about the cheap metal ridge vents. The rubber caps can fall out of the end. As the metal expands and contracts, it can work the nails loose. The sealant on the nail heads can fail over time. And when you call a roofing contractor to make a repair, often, they do little more than smear some adhesive goo to hopefully keep the water out for a for more months. Here's a video.
There are lots of reasons why we don't like these metal ridge vents.
Our preference is to give you a quote for our team to remove the metal ridge vents, and apply a shingle-over ridge vent in its place. This video explains a little more about those products.
Why do pipe collars and roof pipe flashing leak?
In this video from Kelton PA, Drew walks you through the process of carefully disassembling the shingle roof system, in order to remove the old leaking pipe collars, install a new one, and seal everything up as we put it back together. Join us for a tour of the pipe collar replacement process.
As a standard practice on any new roofs we install, we always install sacrificial boots during our final inspection of our crew's work. In this video, we did an inspection for a homeowner who did not realize that she had sacrificial boots, and we'll show you what a great job they did, in protecting the original pipe collars. Here's why we highly recommend hiring Cope Construction to install sacrificial boots for you, as a preventive measure, before your Pipe Collars start leaking.
Are your gutters & downspouts DESTROYING your Brand New Roof?
BEFORE: Why we hard-pipe downspouts into gutters
AFTER: Why we hard-pipe downspouts into gutters
Are your downspouts destroying your roof?
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How do I contact Cope Construction and Renovation?
If you are tired a contractors who take your call, but who never call you back, or who you always seem to get a voice mail box that is full, its time to experience the difference at CopeBUILT! We have a dedicated office staff standing by to answer your call weekdays 9:30 AM to 2 PM eastern time. You can also connect with our incredibly CLEAN & responsive team through FB Messenger on our
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Our promise, is that when we're finished with your project you'll be proud to say, "it's not just done, it was CopeBUILT." That means our team goes to extreme measures to evaluate your project and see how it impacts other parts of your home, and possible future improvements. We're not just going to replace the shingles on your roof. We want to look at the flashing details, at your attic insulation and ventilation and how that impacts your HVAC energy usage costs over time. We take a very wholistic approach to home renovation and remodeling, helping you maintain, improve, and protect your Forever Home. In this article, we're going to share with you just a small sampling of the high quality educational and informative content you'll find on our youtube channel. While the content on this page is specific to roofing, we have over 20 different youtube playlists covering nearly every area of home renovation you might be considering here in Chester County, Pennsylvania. We hope you find this helpful as you are working to choose a roofing contractor to repair or replace the roof on your Unionville, Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, West Grove, Landenberg, Oxford, Nottingham, Kirkwood, Cochranville, or Coatesville home. Anyone can nail down a shingle, but it takes a certain level of diligence to both install that shingle correctly, and ensure that the other important factors that influence the life-span and longevity of those shingles, are fully evaluated and considered.