Is there black mold on your Edmonton roof?

<strong>Is</strong> <strong>there</strong> <strong>black</strong> <strong>mold</strong> on your Edmonton roof?
Today’s biggest concern among roofing contractors in Edmonton is <strong>black</strong> <strong>mold</strong> on your roof.
With health being a number one priority in everyone’s life, it really is a serious issue. With flat
roofs (Tar & gravel), <strong>there</strong> is a higher risk of <strong>black</strong> <strong>mold</strong> being present, whether in the walls or in
the insulation. If your home was not built correctly right from the beginning with proper
venting, then you need an expert to inspect your house as soon as possible.
In our experience it seems that half the houses designed with flat roofs in Edmonton, most
from over 30 years ago, were vented incorrectly. Houses vented correctly usually have a
continuous aluminum ridge vent running along the whole length of the peak. With this
continuous vent is also a vented soffit. This being said, if you have a split or a hole on the roof, a
professional roofing contractor will simply patch the roof, and if properly vented everything will
dry up soon in a natural state.
Roofs that aren’t properly vented will end up trapping moisture and hence will turn into <strong>black</strong>
<strong>mold</strong>. I am not an expert on <strong>black</strong> <strong>mold</strong>, but a proper building inspector or in particular a flat
roof inspector should be able to give you the correct advice. Any credible roofing contractor in

Edmonton should be able to work with a qualified inspector, bearing in mind that <strong>there</strong> are
roofing contractors that won’t work with any roofing inspectors.
My best personal advice about a roofing contractor that won’t work with a qualified inspector is
to take this as a red flag. We are here to correct, fix, and give you the proper service that you
are paying for. That being said, I don’t want to scare or panic anyone just because a leak has
developed.
In over the 30 years of roofing experience, I find it is usually the roofs that have been ignored
for lack of maintenance that pose the most risk.
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