Roofers in Spring Valley, NV

Spring Valley is one of the valley’s genuinely mixed townships. Housing runs from 1970s and 1980s stock through to substantially newer development, which means the roofs here are not one market: shingle, tile and low-slope all turn up within a few streets of each other.

It also means roof age varies enormously by block, so a neighbour’s experience is much less predictive here than it is in a master-planned community.

Older stock, and what it brings

Where the housing is older, the roofs have frequently been worked on more than once, and layered repairs are common: a shingle roof recovered rather than torn off, a patio cover roofed at a different time, an addition tied into the original roof with flashing that has been resealed repeatedly.

Those junctions are the usual leak sites. An inspection here benefits from someone looking at the history of the roof rather than just its current surface.

Low-slope sections are everywhere

Spring Valley has a lot of homes with flat or low-slope elements: carports, patio covers, garage roofs and additions. They are frequently the least maintained roof on the property and the first to leak.

Ponding, blocked drainage and open seams are the failure modes, and none of them are visible from the front of the house.

The climate every Spring Valley roof is working in

• The July average high in Las Vegas is 104.2 degrees Fahrenheit. A dark roof surface in that air runs far hotter still, which is the load that ages a roof here. (NOAA NCEI US Climate Normals, Las Vegas station USW00023169)
• Las Vegas has a normal annual precipitation of just 4.19 inches, which makes it one of the driest cities in the United States. (NOAA NCEI US Climate Normals, Las Vegas station USW00023169)
• July, August and September together bring 0.98 inches of that total, so close to a quarter of the entire year of rain arrives in the three monsoon months, usually in a handful of short violent storms rather than steady rainfall. (NOAA NCEI US Climate Normals, Las Vegas station USW00023169)

Check any contractor before work starts

Roofing in Nevada falls under contractor licence classification C-15, Roofing and Siding, issued by the Nevada State Contractors Board. (Nevada State Contractors Board, License Classifications)

The Nevada State Contractors Board publishes a free public licence search, so you can confirm a contractor is licensed, check the classification they hold and see their licence status before any work starts. (Nevada State Contractors Board, Contractor License Search)