Roofing Contractor in Kennan, Wisconsin

Tear off a roof on an original Kennan village house and you tend to find the same story: 1x board decking with gaps between the boards, a previous layer or two, soffits that were closed up during a siding job decades ago, and attic insulation that was reasonable when it went in and is thin by any current measure.

None of that is a crisis, but all of it affects the job. Gapped board decking may need sheathing over it so fasteners hold and the surface is flat. Closed soffits have to be reopened or replaced with a vented product. We tell you our deck-repair rate before we start and charge only for what we actually replace, with photographs of each piece.

A shingle warranty quietly assumes a ventilated deck. When an attic runs hot, the underside of the shingles cooks, the asphalt loses its oils faster, and a roof rated for thirty years gives you closer to eighteen — while producing eave ice every winter along the way.

Balanced intake at the soffit and exhaust at the ridge is the least expensive part of a roof replacement and the part with the largest effect on how long the new one lasts. On Kennan houses it is usually the single biggest improvement available.