After contacting nearly a dozen different roofing contractors here in Calgary we finally found one who was willing to repair the roof valley for us. We heard quite a few different things from the other companies we contacted including:

• The valley doesn’t need repair, it has another 5-years or so left in it.
• We can’t repair the valley, but we will gladly replace your whole roof for you.
• I could throw some tar on it, but that would only last a year or two.
• We can’t come out to do a quote for at least 6-weeks, would that work for you?

To complicate matters even further, the type of asphalt single used on our house, T-Lock shingles, was discontinued about 5-years ago, so there is no way to match the current tile with a new tile.

In the end the company that we got to repair the valley was Sunik Roofing. In repairing the roof valley they did the following:

1. Remove T-Lock shingles in valley of the garage and walkway.
2. Install ice and snow guard to valley, install metal valley flashing leaving a channel for water to flow down the centre.
3. Install 2-ply roll roof to each side of the valley, then tie in T-Lock shingles with a starter and seal to roof with tar (poly bitumen).
4. Clean and haul away all debris from repair.

They were at our house within a week of us booking Sunik in to do the repair and the repair was done in about 3-hours. From what I can tell as a layman they did a great job on repairing the roof valley and it should do well to last until the whole roof needs to eventually be re-shingled.

We just had a building inspection come back on the roof of our house stating that one of the valleys in our asphalt single roof needs repair. It has never leaked, and I didn’t think it looked all that bad, but the building inspector seemed to deem that the roof valley needs to be repaired.

There is a little deterioration on the last few tiles that according to the building inspector means that the entire 20-feet of roof valley needs to be repaired.

Bummer…

I have been looking at how to do a DIY roof repair on the valley and came across this video of someone else doing a roof valley replacement on a house that needed it’s roof valley repaired:

While researching this problem I also stopped by Home Depot to try to get some advice. Do you ever feel like you know more about construction and house repair than the people who work at the those big box stores? That is kind of how I felt today as a “kid” tried to tell me I just needed some 4″ by 4″ metal flashing to fit in under some cut tiles.

Mate, that really doesn’t cut it …

After looking at what is involved I am feeling that the roof valley repair that I need doing may be a bit over my head for a DIY job unfortunately.

I’m going to be contacting some roofing companies starting with Epic Roofing and Cargan Roofing here in Calgary based on some recommendations from some friends to see what the price will be for this “little” job, ha ha. Actually, I reckon there is probably no such thing as a “little” job when it comes to a roof…