Roof Flashing Repair in Buford, GA

Water appearing near your chimney? Around a dormer? Where the garage addition ties into the main house? Odds are solid that your leak traces back to flashing that's failed.

What Flashing Actually Does

Flashing is just shaped metal designed to seal gaps — everywhere your roof meets something else. Chimneys, walls, skylights, valleys, vent pipes. It's not glamorous stuff, but when it fails, water has a direct path into your home.

Where Problems Show Up

• Around chimneys — the most common failure point by far
• Where additions or dormers meet the main roofline
• Around skylights
• In valleys where two roof surfaces intersect
• Along roof edges (drip edge)

Why Flashing Gives Out

Expansion and contraction. Metal expands when it's hot, contracts when it's cold. After years of cycling through Buford summers and winters, flashing can work loose from surrounding surfaces. Sealant fails, metal pulls away, water finds entry.

Lousy installation. This one's frustrating. Someone relied on caulk where proper overlapping techniques were needed, or chose the wrong flashing profile entirely. Caulk is supposed to supplement good flashing work, not substitute for it.

Storm damage. High winds lift and bend metal. Flying debris dents it. Sometimes storm damage to flashing doesn't become obvious until it starts leaking weeks later.

How We Handle It

Sometimes flashing just needs resealing and securing. Sometimes it needs complete replacement. We'll assess what you have and tell you which approach makes sense.

For chimney work specifically, we do it correctly — step flashing interwoven with the shingles plus counter flashing tucked into mortar joints. Multiple layers of protection rather than one piece and a bead of caulk.

Suspect flashing is your problem? Call (678) 766-9646 and we'll come take a look.