Pleasant Valley Sheathing-First Roofing Services — Insured

Roofing in Pleasant Valley, MO

Pleasant Valley is a town of roofs that are all coming due at once, and the census data shows it plainly. Nearly a quarter of the housing stock here was built in the 1980s and another quarter in the 1990s. Together those two decades account for almost half the city. Only about five percent of it has gone up since 2000.

That bulge is the fact worth planning around. A house framed in 1988 is on its second covering by now and approaching its third, and a street where every house was framed the same year will reach that point together. The door knocking here arrives on that calendar, and it will arrive whether or not there has been weather worth discussing.

The consolation is that everything in that bulge sits on sheet decking laid tight. Oriented strand board and plywood were long standard by then, so the sheathing question that dominates our work in the older river towns is usually settled before we open anything. The survey puts the median year built at 1981, with only about three percent of the stock ahead of 1940.

Pleasant Valley also runs on utility gas more completely than almost anywhere else we work, at about eighty-seven percent of occupied units. That means flues, and it means masonry and metal chimneys coming through the field of the roof. Chimney and vent flashing is where these houses leak, and it is the first place we look when somebody describes a stain that appears only in certain rain.

Jurisdiction here is the city's own. Pleasant Valley employs a Building Inspector who is also the Zoning Administrator, and who both schedules and conducts the inspections and keeps the records. Clay County Planning and Zoning has authority only outside city limits, so a job on a street inside Pleasant Valley does not go through the county however close the county line runs.

The city is small and hemmed in by Interstate 35, and the housing along its short streets ranges from early postwar to fairly recent within a block. Roof age varies here far more than a map suggests. We date each roof from the attic rather than from the assessor's record, because the assessor is recording the house and we are pricing the covering.

Only thirteen severe weather records are filed under the Pleasant Valley name since 2010, and the largest hail among them is under an inch. Forty-one sit within three miles, including two-inch hail filed as Glenaire. The event to know is 12 August 2010, when a seventy knot gust took down trees up to six inches in diameter and blew fences over.