Skylight leaks
Water around a roof window
Tarping is what happens when a roof cannot be made permanently watertight the same day — wrong weather, materials that need temperature to bond, or damage too extensive to repair before the next rain. A properly anchored tarp buys weeks. A weighted one blows off in the next storm and takes shingles with it. The difference is whether it is fastened into sound structure above the damage and run far enough up the slope that water cannot get behind it.
Candler County sits close enough to the water that salt air is part of the roofing equation, and it is the part most people miss. Salt accelerates corrosion on every metal component up there — flashing, fasteners, drip edge, vent collars — so the parts of a roof that are supposed to outlast the shingles often do not. Add hurricane exposure, where Candler County takes both the wind and the horizontal rain that comes with it, and the older housing stock near the water with its steeper pitches, slate and tile sections and complex roof geometry, and the result is a market where leaks cluster at the junctions rather than in the open field of the roof.
A properly anchored one holds for weeks to a few months depending on exposure and UV. It is a bridge to the repair, not a solution — the material degrades and the fixings work loose.
Correctly installed, no. Badly installed, yes — weighted tarps shift and abrade shingles, and fixings driven into the field of the roof create the exact holes you are trying to cover. Anchoring goes into sound structure above the damaged area.
Water around a roof window
Ponding, seams and parapet flashing
The boards behind the gutter
Cedar shake roofs
Rubber flat roofing
New build and full re-roof
You will get a straight answer on whether Candler County needs someone out today or whether it can wait — before anyone quotes you for anything.
Call (229) 592-0097