CertainTeed Authorized Partner — the top-warranty brand in the industry, not the cheap IKO shingle most contractors quietly install instead. Custom metal flashing around chimneys (a Pacific Northwest necessity that lowest-bid roofers skip). Composition, metal, tile, low-slope.
Pacific Northwest weather is the unforgiving test every residential roof has to pass. Eight to ten months of rain a year, freeze-thaw cycles, moss growth, and roof penetrations at chimneys and skylights that are the single most common failure point in the entire envelope. The difference between a roof that lasts thirty years and a roof that fails in seven is rarely the shingle itself — it's the underlayment, the flashing detail, and the discipline of the crew installing it. Big Star is a CertainTeed Authorized Partner, which means we install the brand with the strongest warranty in the industry on roofs that the warranty actually covers — because we install them to spec.
Most roofing contractors in the South Sound install IKO shingles because they're cheaper. The warranty terms reflect that. CertainTeed shingles, properly installed by an Authorized Partner, carry a Lifetime warranty plus a SureStart Plus extended workmanship period. The materials cost slightly more. The warranty is meaningfully better.
Pacific Northwest precipitation makes proper metal flashing around chimneys non-negotiable. Step flashing, counter-flashing, cricket diversion on the uphill side. It's more expensive, more labor-intensive, and most cheap roofers skip it because the homeowner will never look. Three years later you have a leaky chimney and a $50,000 fix. We don't skip it.
Composition (CertainTeed Landmark, Presidential, ClimateFlex), standing-seam metal, tile, low-slope membrane systems. Full envelope work — fascia, soffit, gutter integration, chimney metal — handled in one engagement.
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