Elite Roofing & Remodel

About Elite Roofing & Remodel

Out past Blackmans Lake, where Snohomish's newer subdivisions climb the hillside, a low-pitched roof holds standing snow far longer than the steep, older rooflines closer to downtown. Elite Roofing & Remodel watches those flatter roofs closely through the cold months, since standing snow there turns to an ice dam at the gutter line faster than it would on a steeper pitch. Snow gets cleared off before meltwater can back up under the shingles, and the driveway below gets plowed so a ladder can be set safely against the house. It's a short season of this kind of work in a valley that mostly just gets wet, but a hard freeze can undo a newer roof as fast as an older one. Once the ice lets go, the gutters take over again, running the hillside's water the way they're built to.