Roofing Contractor in Windsor, CA

Which means Windsor is now squarely in re-roof territory. A composition roof installed in the mid-1990s is at or past the end of its practical service life, and the town has a great many of them going at roughly the same time.

When a whole neighborhood was built in the same three years with the same materials by the same crews, the roofs also fail together — and they fail in the same ways. Across Windsor's 1990s subdivisions we see the same pattern repeatedly: granule loss on south and west slopes, brittle and cracked plumbing vent boots, and original ridge material that has gone chalky while the north slope still looks serviceable. The house looks fine from the street and is finished on the sunny side.

The concrete tile roofs from that same era have a different clock. The tile is still fine — it will outlive most of us — but the underlayment underneath it has been in service for close to thirty years, and that is what actually keeps water out. Windsor has a lot of tile roofs that need a lift-and-relay rather than replacement, and the difference in cost is substantial.

The Kincade Fire in October 2019 forced evacuation across Windsor and the surrounding area, and it left the town with a clear-eyed view of fire risk. On the eastern and northern edges of town where properties meet open ground, Class A fire-rated assemblies are the requirement — and for many Windsor homeowners due for a re-roof anyway, it is a good moment to price standing seam metal against another twenty-five years of composition.