Roofing Contractor in Catawba, Wisconsin

Catawba sits in flatter, more open ground than the timbered towns east of here. Without a tree line breaking it up, wind gets under shingle edges at rakes and eaves, and it drives snow into drifts against dormers, chimneys and roof-to-wall intersections where it melts and refreezes.

So the details we fight hardest for on a Catawba roof are starter course adhesion, correct nailing pattern and placement, sealed rake edges, and step flashing that is actually woven into the courses instead of surface-caulked. Those are the failures we get called back to look at, and almost none of them are the shingle's fault.

Not every leaking roof needs to come off. If the field shingles still have flexibility and granule cover, and the problem traces to a single failed vent boot, a rusted chimney flashing or an ice-damaged eave section, a repair is the honest recommendation and we will make it.

Replacement becomes the right call when tabs are brittle and crack when lifted, when granule loss has exposed the mat across whole slopes, when the deck feels soft underfoot, or when there are already two layers up there. We show you photographs of what we found and explain which of those you are looking at.

Snow that arrives here often stays until spring. On a house with a warm attic, that pack melts from underneath all winter and rebuilds ice at the cold overhang until water backs up under the courses and shows on a bedroom ceiling in February.

The correction is not a heat cable. It is continuous soffit intake, ridge exhaust that is actually open, insulation brought to depth at the eave, and ice-and-water membrane carried well past the warm wall line. We quote that as part of the roof rather than discovering it after tear-off.