Pipe boots and flashing
Pipe boots are probably the single most common repair we do. The rubber collar around the vent dries out and cracks in the sun long before the shingles are done, and the fix is a new boot tucked under the upslope shingles and over the downslope ones, not caulk over the old one.
The flashing leak repair pictured on this page is from a Weddington job, and flashing is the repair worth paying a roofer for instead of a handyman. Step flashing at a wall goes in one piece per course, woven with the shingles, and where there is siding the bottom of it has to come loose to do that right. Chimney counter flashing gets cut into the mortar joint and bent down over the step flashing, so where it turns up caulked to the brick we grind out the joint and reset it.
Wind damage and insurance claims
Wind takes the tabs along the ridge and the rakes first, and a tab that lifted and settled back down has usually broken its seal strip even though it looks fine from the ground. We check the seal by hand along those edges and swap out torn and creased shingles with matching material, and ridge caps get reset while we are up there.
If the damage is wide enough that an insurer should be looking at it, it becomes a claim and we photograph it for the adjuster; see Storm Damage & Insurance Claims in Charlotte.
Emergency tarps and inspection-report repairs
When water is coming in right now, the first job is stopping it. Call (704) 352-1112 when you see water; one Google reviewer wrote that our owner fixed the roof and came out late at night to put up an emergency tarp. The tarp gets fastened through batten strips up above the damage rather than through the leak itself, so it is not adding holes to the slope.
Around Charlotte we also handle the repair-and-seal lists that come off a home inspection report, the kind a buyer wants closed out before closing. Attic venting repairs are work we do too, since what gets called a leak is sometimes condensation in an attic with no ventilation.