Gutters, windows and solar detach and reset.

A carrier's first estimate is usually written from the roof. The elevations get less attention, and the items that come back as supplements again and again are the same ones: window wraps and screens, garage door panels, the air conditioner condenser fins, detached structures and fences, and paint on the storm-facing side.

We scope every elevation at the inspection, not just the roof planes, which is the reason our supplements are usually documentation rather than argument. Where a trade genuinely was not damaged, we say so. Padding a scope is how a claim gets scrutinised and how a homeowner ends up in a fight.

The gutter itself does more work here than in a milder climate. In a Colorado Springs or Monument winter the run is not just carrying rain, it is carrying snowmelt that refreezes at the eave overnight, which is why the pitch of the run and the hanger spacing matter as much as the metal. A run that sags holds standing water, and standing water at the eave in January is how an ice dam starts. We set hidden hangers close, pitch the run toward oversized outlets, and size the downspouts to the roof area actually draining into them rather than defaulting to whatever was on the house before, so the system clears a July cloudburst and a February thaw alike.

Solar changes the sequence more than any other trade on the exterior. If panels sit on the storm-facing slope, the roof underneath cannot be touched until they come off, so the detach has to be scheduled before the tear-off and the reset after the new roof is on. We handle that whole sequence rather than leaving you to line up a roofer and a solar company, and every mount is flashed into the new roof and photographed, so there is one company standing behind the roof around your array instead of two pointing at each other. The full detach and reset has its own page if you want the detail.