Serving Sunnyvale and Santa Clara County
A significant portion of homes in Sunnyvale were built between 1955 and 1985 — a period when roofing materials and installation standards were different from today's code requirements. The original organic felt underlayment on these roofs is long past its service life. The galvanized steel flashing has typically corroded through at one or more points. The 3-tab shingles, if original, have exceeded their design life by a decade or more. We've inspected enough Santa Clara County homes from this era to know what we're likely to find — and what it means for the homeowner.
We've been working in Sunnyvale and the surrounding area long enough to have re-roofed homes we originally inspected years ago. That continuity is what local reputation looks like in practice.
At 44% owner-occupancy, Sunnyvale's Santa Clara County homeowners bear the direct cost of deferred roof maintenance — not tenants, not property managers. With a median home age of 51 years, routine inspection and targeted upkeep is consistently more cost-effective than waiting for a failure to force action. We see the difference in repair bills between maintained and unmaintained roofs of identical age every week in this market.