Skylight leaks
Water around a roof window
EPDM is a rubber membrane used on flat roofs, bonded rather than welded, with seams made using tape or adhesive. It fails at those seams, at upstands where the material turns up a wall, and through shrinkage over time pulling the membrane away from its terminations. It is durable in the field and repairable almost indefinitely, so a leaking EPDM roof is rarely a replacement job.
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.
Over many years, slightly — enough to put tension on upstands and terminations, which is where older rubber roofs most often fail. It is repairable by releasing and redressing the affected edge rather than recovering the roof.
No. They are different chemistries and the adhesives and tapes are not interchangeable. Using TPO products on EPDM produces a repair that looks fine and fails within a season.
Water around a roof window
Ponding, seams and parapet flashing
Natural slate, repaired not replaced
Cedar shake roofs
Single-ply flat roof membrane
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