Roofing in Mission, KS

Mission is compact and almost entirely postwar, which makes it one of the more predictable roofing markets in the county. Small to mid-size homes, simple gable and hip roofs, shallow pitch, and lots that were platted tight. The roofs are not complicated. What makes them interesting is age, because most of them are on their second or third covering and the accumulated history of previous work is what we are really inspecting.

On a house that has been reroofed twice already, the details tell you who did the earlier work. Pipe boots caulked instead of replaced, step flashing reused, a chimney counterflashing that was surface-mounted rather than cut into the mortar joint. None of those fail immediately, and all of them fail eventually. When we quote a Mission roof we price the flashing as new work rather than assuming the existing details can be reused, because on houses this age they usually cannot.

Mission sits in the older shaded part of Johnson County, so algae streaking and damp north slopes are routine here. The bigger issue is that these small houses often have undersized gutters carrying water off roofs that were re-covered with thicker architectural shingle than the original three-tab. Heavier shingle sheds the same water, but a gutter that was marginal in 1958 is still marginal now, and overflow at the eave rots fascia quietly for years.

Mission sits about 6 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City, well inside the area our Kansas City crews work. Phone 913-281-6000 for a free inspection, any hour. Our Kansas roofing license is KS14-004306.