What do you know about your roof? Take this roofing quiz!

So how much do you know about your roof and what your needs are as a homeowner or building owner?

Here’s a quick quiz.

In Monrovia, Pasadena, and throughout the San Gabriel Valley, Garvey Roofing is a local contractor giving free estimates. Scroll to the end of this post to see their industry-leading guarantee.

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If a roofing contractor said you need a new roof and not a repair would you believe them and possibly know why they’d say that?
Is attic insulation separate from the roofing system or part of it?
Describe a few purposes that your roof has.
What’s drip edge and do you need it?
If you have asphalt shingles, what’s at least one way to see if they need replaced with a new roof?
What’s at least one reason Garvey Roofing installs gutters?
How important are attic fans?
What’s the material called that goes beneath the asphalt shingles or tile and the plywood decking on your roof?
Do you know why Garvey Roofing uses Therma Sheet? Click the link to look it up.
What’s more damaging to your roof: sun or rain?

Answer time!

For questions 1 and 5, look for missing shingles, brittle shingles, a rolling or lumpy decking and cracking. Tile may be fading or the area beneath is degraded.

Question 2: You can argue that attic insulation is part of the overall roofing system. Yes, you can get your roof replaced without replacing or blowing in the insulation in your attic. But your roof and the attic insulation stop heat from transferring from the outside into your home or from the inside and out into the environment.

Question 3: A new roof can make your home look sharp and more importantly it protects your home from inclement weather and helps save air conditioning costs in the summer and heating costs in the winter.

Question 4: Drip edge and metal flashing protect vulnerable areas from water damage. Drip edge helps channel water so it doesn’t run under the eaves and rot the wood. Metal flashing can protect you’re the baes of the vents on the roof from leaking.

Question 6: What’s one reason that Garvey Roofing installs gutters? Water is channeled away from your home’s foundation using seamless, dripless gutters. Water doesn’t seep into your stucco walls.

Question 7: Attic fans kick on automatically when temperatures in your attic go above certain temperatures like 100 degrees. They draw out the hot air and help reduce the transfer of heat from the outside to the inside.

They circulate the air and help keep your roof healthy.

Question 8,9: The material is called underlayment. Garvey Roofing uses Therma Sheet, a powerful underlayment that reflects the sun’s most harmful rays away from your roof and back into the atmosphere.

Question 10: Is sun or rain more damaging to your roof? Sun is damaging and degrades older roofs, loosing the adhesion of shingles and making it easier for rain to penetrate in the winter and cause leaks.

When granules wash off, the protection against the sun is diminished and the roof degrades more.