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Buffalo and Western New York

We write down
everything we
find up there.

Apex inspects the roof before anyone talks about money. You get the photographs, the findings and a written report you keep, whether the roof needs eleven days of work or nothing at all.

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A shingle-style house roofed in dark slate at sunset, with copper valleys, a dormer and a stone chimney
Where we workBuffalo, Amherst, Tonawanda, Orchard Park and the ring of towns around them.
Systems we installArchitectural asphalt, synthetic slate, standing seam metal.
Licensed and insuredNY 0182-RC and PA 118406. Certificate goes out with every quote.
Workmanship warranty25 years on a full replacement, written on the invoice.
The inspection

Every roof gets photographed, part by part.

This is a page out of a finished report. Each part of the roof is shot close, named in plain words, and marked good, watch or fix. Nothing gets priced until all of it is written down.

Inspection plate Hip roof, architectural asphaltShot from the ridge, 4:52pm
A hip roof in charcoal architectural shingle photographed from above at golden hour, with the ridge, both hips, the shingle field and the drip edge all visible Ridge capThe first thing wind lifts. We check every nail line along it. Hip lineWhere two planes meet, and where they usually let go first. Shingle fieldGranule loss shows here long before it shows in the gutter. Drip edgeMissing on most roofs we inspect that are past fifteen years.
What we find

Four things that turn up on most Buffalo roofs.

These four make up the bulk of what we write up in a year. Each one is cheap while it is small, and none of them stay small through a winter here.

FindingWhat it looks likeWhat it costs to leave
Lifted shingleWind
Tabs standing proud of the course, usually along a rake or the ridge, after a night of gusts over 40.
Nailing the course back down runs about $400. Waiting for the next rain to find the gap means new decking and a ceiling to patch.
Flashing failureJoints
Cracked sealant and rusted metal where the roof meets a chimney, a sidewall or a vent pipe.
Most leaks we chase start at a joint, not out in the field. New step flashing on a chimney is a morning of work. Framing is not.
Granule lossAge
Bare asphalt showing through the mat, and a pile of grit sitting under the downspout.
Nothing today. But the mat is aging out, and once the tabs curl, patching stops being an honest answer. Start setting money aside.
Ice damWinter
A ridge of ice along the eave in January, with a brown ring on the bedroom ceiling by February.
This one is insulation and attic venting, not shingles. We will say so, and a new roof over the same cold attic will do it again next winter.
What we do

Replacements, repairs, and the day after a storm.

Three kinds of work, one crew. Nothing on this list is subcontracted out to whoever is available that week.

An Apex roofer in a fall harness, kneeling on the ridge of a shingle roof and logging a finding on a tablet above the town Every finding gets logged on the roof, not remembered in the truck.

Full replacement

$450 to $650 a square

Tear-off to the deck, rotten sheathing replaced at cost, ice and water shield six feet up from every eave, and the ridge vent cut open properly. Most houses are two to four days.

Repairs and leaks

Diagnosed before quoted

We find where the water actually gets in, which is rarely where the stain is. You get the photograph of the spot and the price to fix that spot, not a pitch for a new roof.

Storm and emergency

Tarped the same day

We tarp first, at no charge, and argue about the claim later. We meet your adjuster on the roof with our own photographs so nobody has to take anyone's word for what was up there.

The February file

One storm, and what a roof like it costs.

A wind storm on the fourteenth took four courses and the ridge cap off a colonial on the west side. Here is that roof before and after, and the same math we use to put a number on yours.

What would my roof run?

Two inputs and the arithmetic left showing.

1,600 sq ft
Roof pitch
18 squares of roof, typically
$8,100 to $11,700 installed

1,600 sq ft footprint x 1.12 pitch factor = about 1,790 sq ft of roof. 18 squares x $450 to $650 per square.

Ballpark only. A square is 100 sq ft of roof surface, and your firm number comes from a free inspection, not a slider.

Get the firm number
The same house after a February wind storm: four courses of shingles torn away, the ridge cap missing, one corner tarped and a gutter pulled loose After the storm The Apex rebuild

A February wind storm took four courses and the ridge cap off this colonial. We tarped it the same day, handled the insurance claim, and relaid it in eleven days. Drag the gold course line, or focus it and use the arrow keys, and the new roof lays back in course by course.

What moves the number

  • Layers coming off.A second layer adds a day of tear-off and another dumpster on the driveway.
  • Valleys, dormers and skylights.A cut-up roof takes longer per square than a plain one, and it eats more flashing.
  • Pitch past 9/12.The crew works off staging instead of the deck, and the days get longer.
Storm to repair

How those eleven days actually went.

The same file, laid out end to end. This is the pace we hold on storm work, and the quote written on day three is the number that gets invoiced on day eleven.

6:40am

The call

She woke up to shingles in the driveway. We answered the shop phone, took the address, and had a truck moving before eight.

Before noon

Tarped

Four courses gone and the ridge cap with them. Tarp down and battened the same morning, no charge for it, before the rain came through that night.

Day 2

The adjuster

We went up with him and handed over sixty photographs taken before anything was touched. Nobody had to argue about what the storm did.

Day 8

Materials

Shingle, ice and water, new copper for the chimney. Dropped on the driveway on plywood, not on the lawn.

Day 11

Relaid and swept

Our own four-man crew, start to finish. Final walk with her on the ground, magnet over the whole yard twice, warranty written on the invoice.

Job file

118 Ashland Ave, Elmwood Village.

A 1926 colonial with two layers already on it. Written up the way every job here gets written up, so the next owner of the house can read what was done.

A two-storey colonial with a new charcoal architectural shingle roof, three dormers and copper downspouts, photographed from the front lawn Two layers came off. Eleven sheets of decking underneath them were soft, and we showed her every one before they went in the dumpster.

The record

Filed the day the job closed. She has a copy, and so do we.

Roof system
Architectural asphalt, charcoal
Size and pitch
34 squares at 6/12
Tear-off
Two layers to the deck
Deck replaced
11 sheets, billed at cost
Crew
Four, all Apex
On site
Two days in June
Chimney
New copper step flashing
Warranty
25 years, written on the invoice
A close view along the finished ridge of the same roof, charcoal architectural shingle and new ridge cap lit by low evening sun The last course, the evening the crew swept up. Charcoal architectural shingle, new ridge cap laid over a continuous vent.

You get the report either way.

We come out, we go up, we photograph all of it and we write down what we find. If the roof has ten good years left in it, that is what the report will say.

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