Service area · Chatham
Roofers in Chatham
The mildest winter we work in and the most violent summer. Least snow, most wind — and the roof gets built for the second one.
Chatham records about 79 cm of snow a year. The lowest figure anywhere on this corridor, and roughly a third of what Stratford gets.
Genuinely good news, and it removes a whole failure mode. Snow rarely sits long enough here to build an ice dam, which means most of the advice written for the northern half of this service area is close to irrelevant on your house.
Wind takes its place entirely
This is the most tornado-active corner of Canada. Western University runs the Northern Tornadoes Project, and its confirmed-event maps land here year after year.
That said, a tornado is not usually what takes your shingles. The straight-line wind arriving with the same storm system does, and it does it far more often.
Flat farmland means no shelter
There is very little upwind of most houses here, so a roof sees close to the full wind speed the storm is carrying. Uplift rating and nailing pattern are the two specifications worth arguing about — and worth arguing about properly.
Booking work in Chatham
Three things get us most of the way there: which town you are in, roughly when the roof was last done, and what you are actually seeing — a stain on a ceiling, granules in the eavestrough, shingles on the lawn on Sunday morning. That is usually enough to tell you whether this is a repair, a claim, or a roof that has quietly reached the end, without anybody driving anywhere.