Roofing Contractor in Calistoga, CA

Rea Roofing Inc. serves Calistoga and the surrounding upper valley — town homes, the small-scale commercial and hospitality buildings the town is built around, and the rural and hillside properties on the roads out of it.

Most of the land around Calistoga is wildland-urban interface, and for roofing that means a Class A fire-rated assembly. It is worth being precise about what that means: the rating belongs to the whole assembly — covering, underlayment and deck together — not to a product on its own. Ember-resistant venting and attention to what happens at eaves and open rafter tails matter as much as the surface material, because embers landing in a vent or an open eave is how a great many homes are actually lost.

Standing seam metal has become the obvious answer for a lot of Calistoga properties. It carries a Class A rating in a properly built assembly, it has no organic surface for embers to ignite, and on a rural property with a long approach it looks appropriate rather than suburban. Tile achieves the rating too and suits the valley's Mediterranean-influenced architecture.

The other Calistoga factor is heat. Summer temperatures at the top of the valley are among the highest in the North Bay, and roofs bake. That accelerates every rubber and plastic component on the roof and pushes attic temperatures high enough to age composition shingles from underneath. Ventilation and material choice both do more work here than they do on the coastal side of the hills.