Centennial Roofing, From Southglenn to Smoky Hill

What Centennial Roofs Are Actually Like

Around Southglenn and Willow Creek, homes are mostly 1970s and 1980s, many on a second or third roof. Piney Creek and Foxridge run a little newer. A lot of Centennial houses have moderate to steep pitches with rooflines that intersect, and that’s where cheap workmanship shows first: your valleys, step flashing and chimney, not the open shingles.

So those details are what we look at hardest on your roof. Most leaks we get called to in Centennial were never a shingle problem.

Areas We Work in Centennial

• Southglenn
• Willow Creek
• Foxridge
• Piney Creek
• Smoky Hill

Centennial, West to East

Centennial is a young city, incorporated in 2001, but plenty of its neighborhoods aren’t young at all. What your roof needs changes as you move east.

• Southglenn and the west side. Some of the oldest housing in the city, much of it on a second or third roof. This is where we most often find tired decking and old roof vents that were never updated.
• Willow Creek. Established streets with mature trees over many of the roofs. Trees are lovely and hard on your roof: shade, leaves in the valleys and branches rubbing the shingles all shorten its life.
• Foxridge. Steeper pitches and more intersecting rooflines than the older streets to the west, so there are more joints to keep watertight.
• Piney Creek. Bigger two-story homes. Big roofs with lots of valleys, dormers and roof-to-wall joints, which is exactly where workmanship shows first.
• Smoky Hill and the east side. Newer homes on more open ground. These roofs are rarely worn out; when they fail, it’s usually hail or wind.

Where Your Centennial Roof Will Leak

When we trace a leak on a Centennial home, it’s almost never the open stretch of shingles. It’s one of a short list of details, and these are what we check on every inspection:

• Valleys, where two slopes meet and all their water runs down one line.
• Step flashing along a wall, which often gets reused from the old roof when it should have been replaced.
• Kick-out flashing at the bottom of a roof-to-wall joint. When it’s missing, water runs behind your siding instead of into the gutter.
• Chimney flashing and chase covers. A rusted cover on top of a framed chimney can leak into the house and look exactly like a roof leak.
• Pipe boots, whose rubber collars crack in Colorado sun long before the shingles around them wear out.

Split-Levels and Low-Slope Sections

Plenty of Centennial homes are split-levels, and those often have a shallow section of roof over a porch, an addition or the lower level. Shingles are made to shed water on a proper slope. On a roof that’s too flat, they hold water and leak early.

If part of your roof is too shallow for shingles, we’ll tell you, and price the right material for that section instead of running the same shingle across the whole house because it’s quicker.

What Centennial Requires, and What It Means for You

Centennial's Building Division publishes its residential reroof rules. They’re worth knowing before you hire anyone:

• A permit for anything over 100 square feet, posted at the house until the final inspection. A smaller repair doesn’t need one.
• Repairs covering more than a quarter of the roof require a complete tear-off and reroof. So a big "repair" quote may really be a replacement.
• A replacement removes every layer down to the deck, and used or salvaged materials aren’t allowed.
• Ice barrier underlayment on all roofs, and drip edge on every edge.
• A mid-roof inspection on every reroof permit, as well as the final. Centennial accepts photo inspections for both.

What You Get, in Centennial or Anywhere Else We Work

Materials

Limited Lifetime manufacturer warranty on shinglesManufacturer's terms and conditions apply.

Workmanship

10-year written labor warrantyProvided directly by Colorado Roofing and Remodeling.

• An exact written price before any work begins, including how deteriorated decking would be priced if we find it.
• No money up front. You pay when the job is finished and you are satisfied.
• We order, post and pay for the building permit in Centennial.
• Full cleanup of the yard and driveway.
• A lien waiver covering materials and labor.

What We Do in Centennial

• Roof ReplacementFull tear-off and replacement, with the price agreed in writing before we start.
• Roof RepairLeaks, wind-lifted shingles and failed flashing, repaired rather than upsold.
• Hail & Storm DamageFront Range hail and wind damage, documented the way your carrier reads it.
• Roof InspectionA free inspection with photographs, and a straight answer either way.
• Siding RepairHail-cracked, dented or wind-loosened siding repaired a section at a time, matched to the wall.
• Roof & Chimney Flashing RepairLeaks at chimneys, walls, skylights and vents fixed at the flashing, without replacing the roof.
• Tile Roof RepairCracked, slipped or hail-damaged concrete and clay tile repaired, with the underlayment checked underneath.
• Interior RemodelingInterior work and leak-damage repair, priced in writing, with no money up front.

Examples of Our Work

See More of Our Completed Roofs

Sources

• City of Centennial, Residential Roof Repairs and Re-Roofing: permits, tear-off, ice barrier and inspection rules