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EVERY PENETRATION ON AN ASPEN WOODS ROOF, ONE BY ONE

Aspen Woods, SW Calgary · August 2026

  • MATERIALEXISTING ARCHITECTURAL SHINGLE (ASSESSED, WITH FAILED DETAILS CORRECTED)
CALGARY-BASED · OPEN BOOKING
THE JOB

A large SW roof with no single dramatic failure and a long list of small ones. Vent flashing rusted through around the collar. Black mastic troweled over a stucco wall transition by somebody before us. That's the classic patch that hides a detail rather than fixing it, and it buys about two winters. A valley that looked fine until it was lifted. None of that shows up in a walk-around. It shows up when somebody checks each penetration on its own terms, which is slower and is what a real inspection involves.

WHAT WE DOCUMENTED

Photographed penetration by penetration rather than slope by slope, because on a roof like this the field is fine and the failures are all at the interruptions. The mastic-over-stucco shot is the one worth keeping: it is evidence of a previous repair that was never a repair, and it changes what the homeowner should expect from the next one.

Before

Vent flashing rusted through around the collar on a Calgary roof
Rusted through around the collar. Sealant would not have saved this.
Black mastic troweled over a stucco wall and roof transition as a previous repair
Mastic troweled over a wall transition by somebody before us. That is a patch, not a repair.
Shingle lifted at a valley to show the detail underneath during a roof inspection
Lifted at the valley. It looked fine until it didn't.

After

New vent flashing set into the shingle courses on a Calgary roof
New flashing set into the courses.
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