Both photographs shot from the ridge — the only place the man doing the work ever stands.
Boss Roofing is Jason. He climbs your roof, he writes the number, and he is the one up there when the shingles go on. Thirty years on roofs. Twelve of them under his own name.
The person doing the estimate is the person who puts your new roof on.
Boss Roofing & Contracting · from their own listingOn roofs since 1996
Every roofer sells the claim. Here is the roof.
Insurance approves a scope. A scope does not say how straight the rows are, or how much of your deck gets covered before the shingles go down. This is what Jason puts on a house, in writing, on every job — and every layer of it is printed right here, because a roof you have to take on trust is the whole problem.
01 Shingle course
Minimum 30-year laminate shingles
Hail does not tear a shingle in half — it bruises it, and the bruise opens years later. A thirty-year laminate has the mass to take the hit. Straight cuts, measured stagger: every seam ends up with solid shingle sitting over it.
02 Synthetic underlayment
Synthetic roofing paper on the entire roof
The whole deck — not just the first metre above the eave. When a shingle finally gives up in February, this is the layer standing between the weather and your ceiling.
03 Ice & water shield
Ice & water shield on eaves and in valleys
A rubberised membrane that seals around every nail driven through it. Jason runs it along the eaves, up the valleys, and doubles it at every pipe and vent — the exact places a roof leaks first.
04 Deck
Six nails per shingle. Not four.
Four is common, and it is enough right up until the wind that carried the hail comes back. Jason puts six in every shingle, in the nailing strip where the manufacturer says they go. Nobody will ever see this. That is rather the point.
Old shingles stripped and recycled. Yard cleaned up perfectly before he leaves.
Two clocks, Central Alberta
Alberta gives you two years.
Under Alberta’s Insurance Act, a property-damage claim carries a two-year limit — counted from when you knew, or ought to have known, that the damage happened. Hail is very good at hiding. That is the problem.
Closing · 24 July 2024
The storm nobody went up to look at.
Hail up to tennis-ball size crossed Eckville, Bentley and Lacombe County. A bruised shingle looks fine from the driveway. If nobody has been on that roof since, the window to do something about it is closing.
Open · 4 July 2026
The one that just went over.
Environment Canada had a severe thunderstorm warning up over Lacombe, Blackfalds and Bentley — baseball-size hail or greater. If that cell crossed your street, whatever it did is up there right now. The crews who follow hail already know it.
Jason is a roofer, not a lawyer. Limitation dates turn on your policy and on when the damage was discovered — if you are unsure, call your insurer. Either way, the useful move is the same: get someone on the roof and find out what is actually up there.
How to tell a roofer from a knock.
Every summer, crews follow the hail up from the south, sign what they can in a weekend, and subcontract the work to whoever is free. Some of them do a fine job. You have no way of knowing which. Here is what to ask.
Column AThe man at your door
Column BThe man on your roof
Arrived the week the hail did
Has worked in Red Deer since 2014
The address on the card is a truck
A Red Deer address you can drive to
Wants a deposit before anything happens
Free inspection. Nothing up front
Books the job, then subcontracts the install
The man who quotes it is the man who nails it
Warranty from a company name that may not exist next year
Thirty years on roofs, and he has shown up on a Sunday
His trailer. His phone number. A finished roof behind it.
Or stop doing this every hailstorm.
Jason also installs Euroshield — a rubber shingle pressed in Alberta out of recycled tires, and third-party tested against hailstones bigger than five centimetres. Not for the insurance discount — ask around Alberta about how reliably that shows up. Buy it so that you do not file this claim again.
Impact rating
Class 4 · UL 2218
Tested against
Hail > 5 cm
Material
70–80% recycled tire rubber
Made in
Alberta
Warranty
50 years
Thirty-one people have bothered to write it down.
4.9★31 reviews · Birdeye · Red Deer, AB
“We noticed last week’s big wind had taken a few shingles off of our roof at the ridge. It was Saturday, and raining. Not to worry, Jason showed up on Sunday (earlier than expected) and had the job done in good order. He took the time to check our roof out to make sure the rest was ok. He did fantastic work in bad conditions, and we really appreciate that. Top notch.”
Zero · Birdeye review
“Awesome guy. Awesome work. Will help out. Goes above and beyond. Highly recommended.”
