Why emergency roof tarp works differently in East Gwillimbury
Nearly every urgent emergency roof tarp call we take in East Gwillimbury began as something a homeowner noticed months earlier and reasonably decided to watch.
Air-sealing and window upgrades have made East Gwillimbury homes far tighter than they were designed to be, and a tight house starves a natural-draft appliance of the make-up air it needs.
Snow load and ice damming stress the roof-to-wall junction each winter; by spring the sealant that was doing the work has usually torn.
Across Mount Albert, Sharon, River Drive Park, Brownhill and Queensville, the housing stock changes street by street, and the correct method changes with it. A century home with a soft-brick stack does not get the same treatment as a 2010 build with a factory-built vent — using one method on both is how systems get damaged.
the practical takeaway is that a emergency roof tarp visit should start with an assessment, not a tool. Any crew that begins work before telling you what they found is guessing on your behalf.