Service area · St Thomas
Roofers in St Thomas
Middling snow, plenty of rain, and a railway-era housing stock carrying more roof junctions per house than anywhere else on the corridor.
St. Thomas records about 119 cm of snow and 874 mm of rain a year at its own station. Ordinary snow for this corridor. Among the highest rainfall on it.
That balance shifts the whole conversation. Ice dams are possible here and not the defining problem. Water volume is.
So we talk about drainage first
Eight hundred and seventy-four millimetres landing on a roof plane has to go somewhere, and a five-inch trough on a big plane will simply overflow in an ordinary summer storm. When it does, the water it should have carried away lands against your foundation instead.
Trough size, downspout count, and where the discharge actually ends up. Cheap decisions that prevent an expensive one.
The railway housing
Built when this was a railway town, which means steep pitches, dormers, and rear additions bolted on across several decades.
Every addition creates a new roof-to-wall junction, and the step flashing tucked behind it is the single most under-inspected detail in this trade. It is also where we find the leak, over and over, on houses whose owners were quite sure they needed a whole new roof.
Booking work in St Thomas
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.