Top-Rated Emergency Roof Tarping, Ice Dam, Roof Leak & Ceiling Leak Repair Team in Birmingham, Troy, Rochester Hills & West Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan, On Site in 25 Minutes

Prime Restoration starts every roof leak the same way: we tarp the roof so no more water gets in. Then we fix what the water did, in the attic, the insulation, the ceilings, the walls and the floors. We are a top-rated, highly local team with four Oakland County offices, at 801 S Adams Rd in Birmingham, Coventry Place on W Big Beaver Rd in Troy, Hampton Professional Park in Rochester Hills and 5600 W Maple Rd in West Bloomfield. A crew is typically on site in 25 minutes, any hour.

Oakland County roofs leak in three seasons for three reasons. Spring and summer storms lift shingles and drop trees. Fall rain finds tired flashing at chimneys and skylights. Winter builds ice dams on the eaves of older, under-insulated homes, and those leaks run down exterior walls on sunny days. We handle all three: emergency roof tarping and board-up, water extraction and drying, ceiling leak repair, and a permanent roof leak repair scoped and scheduled in the same job. Family water damage restoration business since 1988.

Ice dams are searched almost three times as often in Oakland County as in Macomb County, by our Keyword Planner data. The housing explains it: Oakland County has more older, larger homes with complex rooflines, finished attics, knee walls and cathedral ceilings, the places where house heat reaches the underside of the roof.

Here is the mechanism. Heat escaping into the attic warms the roof deck and melts the snow above it. The meltwater runs down to the eave, which hangs outside the heated walls and stays below freezing, and freezes into a ridge. The next melt pools behind the ridge, backs up under the shingles and finds a seam. Inside, it shows up as stains and drips along exterior walls, at the tops of window frames, in closets on outside walls and around recessed lights and bath fans.

Code backs this up. When a roof is replaced, the 2015 Michigan Residential Code calls for an ice barrier, two layers of underlayment cemented together or a self-adhering membrane, from the eave edge to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line (MRC R905.2.7.1). On a replacement roof over an ice dam history, ask to see photos of that membrane before the shingles go on.

Our fix comes in order: open a drainage channel through the dam at the leak, extract the water inside, pull soaked insulation, dry the ceiling and wall cavities, then use a thermal camera to show you where the heat escapes. Sealing those air leaks and adding insulation is what stops the next dam. Read more in our ice dam prevention guide.

Ranked by the share of homes built before 1980 (U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2019 to 2023). Older homes carry older roofs, older flashing and attics insulated before modern energy codes, which is where ice dams start. The last column shows the permit or review each city publishes for roof work.

Ferndale has the oldest housing in the county with a median build year of 1943, then Berkley (1949), Royal Oak (1956), Hazel Park (1956), Clawson and Oak Park (1958), and Birmingham and Pontiac (1960). Those are the plaster-ceiling, older-attic neighborhoods where ice dams and flashing leaks do the most damage inside.

A proper emergency tarp covers the damaged area with margin on every side, runs over the ridge when the damage is near the top so water sheds off the tarp instead of under it, and is fastened through wood battens into the deck so wind cannot lift it. Where a limb or tree opened the roof, we cut it clear, board the hole and tarp over the boards. On slate, tile and cedar we protect the roofing from the tarp and the crew.

When lightning, high wind or ice makes the roof unsafe, the crew starts inside: extracting water, draining a bulging ceiling under control, setting dehumidifiers and moving contents. The roof gets tarped the moment it is safe to stand on.

Prime Restoration is the contractor for roof leak and ice dam water damage insurance claims across Oakland County. We document the roof damage and the tarp, the attic, and every wet ceiling and wall, with dated photos and moisture readings on each visit and an itemized Xactimate estimate for tarping, drying and repairs. Your carrier decides coverage under your policy, and you decide the claim with your carrier. Our file gives the adjuster a clear record of the loss.

Many of the highest-value homes we restore are in Oakland County: Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills estates, lake homes in West Bloomfield and Orchard Lake, and large colonials in Troy and Rochester Hills. Those homes get matched plaster and millwork, protected hardwood and stone, contents packed out and inventoried, and one project lead from the tarp to the final walkthrough. See our insurance claims guide and 0% APR financing.