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Roof Inspections

Free Roof Inspections

A free roof inspection anywhere in our Watertown service area. Every slope walked, no obligation, and you keep the photographs whether or not you ever hire us.

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The Inspection

What A Free Roof Inspection In Watertown Includes

A free roof inspection in Watertown takes thirty to sixty minutes: every slope walked and photographed, flashing, boots, valleys and ridge checked, the attic where we can reach it, and a written verdict — repair, replace, claim or leave it — with the reason. No fee, no obligation, no signature on the doorstep.

Someone on the roof, not in the driveway with binoculars. Every slope walked and photographed, the penetrations and flashings checked, the attic looked at where we can get to it, and a written summary of what we found.

If there is nothing wrong, that is what the report says. Telling you your roof has another six years in it costs us nothing and is why people call us back. The report is dated, which matters: if a storm hits the same roof next spring, you have a record of what it looked like before.

Deliverables

What Is In The Written Roof Report

Photographs of every slope

Marked where there is damage, with a coin for scale on hail bruising. Yours to send to an insurer, another contractor or a buyer’s agent.

The details

Flashing at every wall and chimney, pipe boots, valleys, ridge, drip edge, and whether the eave carries the ice barrier SPS 321.28(4) requires on low slopes.

The attic

Where we can reach it: soffit intake, signs of condensation on the sheathing, bath fans venting into the roof space, insulation depth at the eaves.

A verdict, in writing

Repair, replace, claim, or leave it — with a reason for each. And a price if you want one, itemized and fixed.

Timing

Three Reasons People Book: After A Storm, Before A Sale, Before Winter

After any hail or high wind

Especially if neighbors are having work done. Damage does not have to leak to be claimable, and the twelve months Wis. Stat. § 631.83(1)(a) allows runs from the storm, not from when you notice.

Before buying a house

A general home inspection in Wisconsin looks at a roof from a ladder at one corner. Knowing whether you are inheriting a five-year problem is worth a phone call before you close.

Before you sell

A documented sound roof removes a negotiating lever. A documented failing one lets you price it deliberately, and the benchmark says a new roof recoups about 69.2% at resale in this region.

Annually past twenty years

Not to sell you a roof, but so you can plan and budget for one rather than react to a leak in February. An annual roof inspection on an old roof is how the replacement becomes a spring project instead of a winter emergency.

No Pressure

No Obligation, Explicitly: The Objection That Stops People Booking A Roof Inspection

The reason people put off a free inspection is not the roof. It is the expectation that somebody will stand in the kitchen afterward and not leave until something is signed. So, explicitly: the inspection ends with a report, not a signature. If the roof is fine, the report says so and we go. If it is not, you get the photographs and a written price and we still go, because a written estimate you can read tomorrow is worth more to us than a signature tonight.

Wisconsin’s home improvement rules, ATCP 110.02, name the sales tactics a contractor may not use — telling you a roof is dangerous when it is not, delivering materials to force a contract — and the free inspection page has the form if you would rather book online than call.

Straight Answers

Inspection Questions

Yes, for homes in our service area — the sixteen towns from Watertown to Madison and Beaver Dam. There is no fee, no obligation, and no attempt to have you sign anything on the doorstep. The reason is commercial rather than charitable: an inspection that finds nothing is the reason you call us in five years when it finds something.

Thirty to sixty minutes for most houses, depending on how cut up the roof is and whether the attic is accessible. After a regional storm the wait for an appointment stretches to a week or more because every roof in the county needs looking at, but water coming in tonight jumps the line — emergency tarping is a different call.

It helps, so we can show you the photographs and answer questions on the spot, but it is not required. We need access to the outside of the house and, ideally, to the attic hatch. If you are not there the report and photographs arrive the same day by email, and we will call to walk you through them if you would like.

No. A good share of the roofs we inspect need nothing yet, and our reports say so in writing. Where a roof does need work we tell you whether it is a repair, a replacement or an insurance claim, and why — the reasoning is on the page so you can check it against a second opinion. The FAQ has more on how we price.

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The questions we get asked

Cost, timing, permits, insurance and warranties, answered plainly on one page.

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Book a free inspection

The form, the phone number and what happens next, on one page.

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Hail damage

What an inspection finds after hail that you cannot see from the ground, and why the inspection in the weeks after the storm matters more than one six years on.

Hail damage

No Charge

Book A Free Inspection

Thirty minutes, photographs of every slope, and a written report you keep either way.

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