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Repair vs. Replace: How to Decide on Your Roof

It is the question every island homeowner faces eventually: patch the roof one more time, or bite the bullet and replace it? Get it wrong in either direction and you lose money — pouring cash into a roof that is beyond saving, or tearing off one that had a decade left. This guide gives you a clear framework for deciding, calibrated to the specific realities of roofing in the San Juan Islands. Start With Three Questions Before you look at a single estimate, answer thes

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8 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Roofer

Hiring a roofer in the San Juan Islands is not a decision to make on a handshake and a low bid. Your roof faces roughly 40 inches of rain a year, salt air that eats cheap fasteners, and west-side winds that run about 20 percent stronger than the mainland. The wrong contractor can leave you with a roof that fails years early — and getting a crew back across the water to fix it is a headache you don't want. The good news: a handful of sharp questions will separate the prof

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10 Roofing Materials Ranked for Salt-Air Durability

Living on the San Juan Islands means living with salt. It drifts off the water on every breeze, settles on every surface, and quietly attacks anything that cannot resist it. Cheap fasteners rust, thin coatings chalk and peel, and porous materials trap the moisture that our roughly 40 inches of annual rain deliver. When you factor in west-side wind gusts about 20 percent stronger than Anacortes and moss creeping across shaded north slopes, the question of which roofing mater

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A Guide to Roof Deck Repair and Sheathing

Every roof is really two roofs. There is the part you see, the shingles or metal panels, and the part you do not, the wooden deck beneath it. That deck, also called sheathing, is the structural surface that everything else is fastened to. On the San Juan Islands, where roughly 40 inches of rain falls each year and moisture lingers for weeks, the deck is quietly the most vulnerable and most overlooked part of the whole system. This guide explains what roof sheathing is, how

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