Roofing Contractor in Petaluma, CA

Rea Roofing Inc. works on both. The west-side homes are careful, detail-heavy jobs; the east-side homes are efficient re-roofs where the value is in doing the ordinary things properly.

Petaluma sits at the inland end of the Petaluma Gap, the break in the coastal hills that funnels marine air inland every afternoon. The wind that makes this a distinctive grape-growing area is also relentless on roofs. It drives rain sideways into wall flashings and under rake edges, and it finds any shingle that was not nailed to pattern. Wind-driven rain leaks — the kind that only appear in certain storms — are a signature Petaluma problem.

The historic housing stock compounds it. A 130-year-old Victorian has had many roofs, and each one left its own layer of decisions behind: old flashing left in place, valleys reworked with whatever was handy, penetrations added for plumbing and heating over the course of a century. Tearing off to bare deck on these homes is the only way to see what you are dealing with, and it is where the actual money in the job is.

The east-side subdivisions are now old enough that first-generation roofs have already been replaced once and second-generation roofs are aging. These are good candidates for straightforward composition replacement — and for finally correcting the attic ventilation, which on 1970s and 1980s Petaluma tracts is very often inadequate and is quietly shortening every roof that goes on.