Roofing Contractor in Kennan, Wisconsin

Tear off a roof on an original Kennan village house and you tend to find the same story: 1x board decking with gaps between the boards, a previous layer or two, soffits that were closed up during a siding job decades ago, and attic insulation that was reasonable when it went in and is thin by any current measure.

None of that is a crisis, but all of it affects the job. Gapped board decking may need sheathing over it so fasteners hold and the surface is flat. Closed soffits have to be reopened or replaced with a vented product. We tell you our deck-repair rate before we start and charge only for what we actually replace, with photographs of each piece.

A shingle warranty quietly assumes a ventilated deck. When an attic runs hot, the underside of the shingles cooks, the asphalt loses its oils faster, and a roof rated for thirty years gives you closer to eighteen — while producing eave ice every winter along the way.

Balanced intake at the soffit and exhaust at the ridge is the least expensive part of a roof replacement and the part with the largest effect on how long the new one lasts. On Kennan houses it is usually the single biggest improvement available.

Aged shingles bruise and crease differently than new ones — hail can fracture the mat without knocking off obvious granules, and wind creases tabs that lay back down and look fine from the driveway. That combination gets homeowners talked out of legitimate claims.

We inspect every slope, mark and photograph what we find, and give you documentation solid enough to hand an adjuster. We make no promises about what a carrier approves, and we will not manufacture damage that is not there.