Serving the Regional District of Nanaimo
Roofing on rural lots south of the city
Nanaimo Roofers roofs the rural lots of Cedar, in Electoral Area A of the Regional District of Nanaimo. Out here a roof repair or replacement needs no building permit as long as we make no structural changes, and we tell you at the quote which of the 2 answers applies to your property.
The exemptions that actually apply out here
That roofing exemption is the first of three published for the electoral areas. Out here two exemptions come up often: farm buildings on land with farm status, and a small shed under 10 square metres. We tell you which side of that line your buildings fall on.
Outbuildings are not small houses
A barn or a shop roof is usually a long low-slope plane, and low slope is where the covering options narrow. Profiled metal starts at a slope of 1 in 4 with no upper limit; modified bituminous membrane runs from 1 in 50 up to 1 in 4. Below 1 in 50 there is no covering we can put on it, and the framing has to be built up to a steeper pitch first.
Access changes the price
We price rural work partly on getting a bin, a crew and material onto the property and off again.
If you're out this way and the roof is due, ask us for a free quote and we'll come and walk it with you.
Roofing services
- New roof installationFull tear-off, deck repair, underlay and architectural shingles or standing seam metal. A fixed price, with the sheathing unknowns listed separately.
- Metal roof systemsStanding seam and profiled metal from a slope of 1 in 4 with no upper limit, detailed for a 2.1 kPa ground snow load and a 0.50 kPa design wind.
- Flat and low-slope roofingMembrane roofing for flat and low-slope decks below a slope of 1 in 4: two-ply torch-on SBS, TPO and EPDM, with the drainage and flashing heights this coast needs.
- Roof repair and leak tracingFlashing, valleys, penetrations and laps. Finding where water enters a roof, which is almost never directly above the stain on the ceiling.
- Moss removal and roof maintenanceLow-pressure moss treatment, ridge strips, and a spring and fall inspection interval that catches damage while it is still a repair.