Tempe has more flat and low slope roofing than most of the East Valley, because so much of the city was built during the decades when that style was standard. Flat doesn't mean maintenance free. It means water leaves slowly, so a blocked scupper or a low spot holding water after a monsoon cell turns into an interior stain far quicker than it would on a steep tile roof.
Tempe is largely built out, and a big share of the housing stock went up between the 1950s and the 1980s. Around here that mostly means low slope and flat sections, spray foam, and asphalt shingle, with tile on the newer south Tempe pockets.
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Water that sits for more than a day or two after a storm is telling you the slope or the drain isn't doing its job. On a foam roof it also strips the protective coating faster in exactly the spot you can least afford it.
Spray foam is a good Arizona system, but the coating on top is the sacrificial layer and it needs renewing roughly every five to ten years. Plenty of Tempe foam roofs are structurally fine and simply overdue a recoat, which is a fraction of the cost of a replacement.
Mid century Tempe homes often have parapets. The wall to roof junction is where those leak, and it's almost always flashing rather than the field of the roof.
Near the ASU campus a lot of homes are rentals, and roofs on rentals tend to get looked at only once something drips. A photo inspection between tenants is cheap insurance.
A roof in Tempe isn't aging the way the same roof would somewhere milder. Phoenix area homes sit through well over a hundred days a year above one hundred degrees, and attic temperatures climb far higher than that. Materials expand every afternoon and contract every night, and that constant movement works fasteners loose, opens sealant, and makes anything brittle fail sooner.
Then monsoon season arrives, officially June 15 through September 30. It doesn't bring gentle rain. It brings microbursts that can gust well past sixty miles an hour, wind driven dust that packs into valleys, and enough water in twenty minutes to find any weakness the summer already created. A roof that has been quietly baking for nine months meets that in one afternoon.
We won't tell you over the phone that you need a new roof. It isn't possible to know, and anyone who does it's guessing or selling. What we do instead is get up there, photograph the field, the valleys, the flashings and every penetration, and then sit down and show you. Sometimes the answer is a handful of tiles and a flashing repair. Sometimes it's a full underlayment replacement. Occasionally the answer is that the roof is fine and you should call us again in two years.
We concentrate on Tempe and the wider East Valley rather than claiming all of Arizona, because a service area you can actually cover is the difference between an appointment window that holds and one that slips twice. When you call about a Tempe address you're speaking to people who work these streets, not a call centre in another state.
Yes. Flat and low slope work is a large part of what Tempe needs, including foam recoats, modified bitumen repairs, and drainage corrections. Book a free photo inspection and we'll show you whether the roof needs a recoat or a replacement.
Look for the top coat wearing thin enough that the foam colour shows through, chalking underfoot, or blistering. A recoat done on schedule is far cheaper than letting UV get into the foam itself.
Yes. We photograph everything and send it through, so an out of area owner can see the roof condition without being on site.
Looking at a bigger job? Read about roof replacement, targeted roof repair, or storm and wind damage. Not sure yet? The free photo inspection is the place to start.
