Quick Roof Repairs in Quinby
Quinby is the kind of place you can drive through without realizing you have left Florence. The town sits right against the city's east side, mostly quiet residential streets with houses set back under tall pines and hardwoods, and a lot of the homes back up to woods. That tree cover is a big part of why people like living there, and it is also the reason most Quinby roof calls we get start with the words "a limb came down."
Quinby sits just northeast of downtown Florence, so a roof here sees the same storms, the same pines and the same humid summers as the city next door.
Weather in Quinby and what it brings down
The storms that do the most damage here are not always the biggest ones on the news. A regular summer thunderstorm with straight-line winds can drop a heavy pine limb through a carport or punch it into a roof deck, and in spring the Pee Dee's severe-weather season brings tornado warnings and gusty lines of storms. Hail shows up now and then.
The big ones leave a longer mark. When Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 pushed inland across Florence County, the damage around wooded neighborhoods like Quinby was mostly trees: whole pines on houses, limbs through porch roofs and days of heavy rain pouring through the holes they left. Those storms are the reason we tell Quinby homeowners to get damaged areas tarped the same day if they can, because the rain after the wind usually does more harm than the wind did.
The houses and roofs in Quinby
Much of Quinby is ranch-style houses, brick and siding, from the middle of the last century onward, with some newer homes built in between. The roofs are mostly shingle, with simple gables and hips, and a lot of carports and add-on rooms tied in over the years. Under a canopy of pines, those roofs stay shaded and damp. Needles pile up in valleys and behind chimneys, gutters fill and overflow at the corners, and moss and black algae creep across the north slopes. Where the needles sit long enough, they hold water against the shingles and rot the edge of the decking underneath.
Repairs and storm work we do here
A lot of our Quinby work is ordinary leak repair: clearing a packed valley, replacing the shingles that rotted under it, resealing a chimney or swapping a cracked pipe boot. Small jobs, but they stop water before it ruins a ceiling. You can read more about the way we chase down a Quinby leak if you want the details.
After a storm the work changes. We remove the limb if it is still on the roof, tarp the opening, check the decking and rafters from the attic, and then rebuild the damaged section properly once it is dry. When the damage is going through an insurance claim, our photos and written scope help with that, and there is more on the storm side of what we do for anyone dealing with a tree on the house.
Nearby towns we also cover
Quinby sits between Florence and the country to the east, so the work here runs out toward Marion and down toward Coward as well. On the other side, it is practically one place with the city of Florence next door. Of all the towns we cover, Quinby is one of the closest.
Send us a note about your Quinby roof
The form below takes your name, a phone number and, if you want, your address. In the message box, tell us what happened: a limb on the roof, a drip in the hallway, gutters overflowing or shingles on the lawn. If there is water coming in right now, say so and we will treat it as urgent.