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Dedication Roofing works across Salt Lake City, from downtown commercial flat roofs to shingle replacements in the Avenues, Sugar House, Rose Park and Glendale. The company covers 84101, 84102, 84103, 84104, 84105, 84106, 84108, 84109, 84111, 84115 and 84116, and is based at 6452 W Kings Estate Dr in West Valley City, roughly ten minutes from most of the city. IB certified for membrane roofing systems, Malarkey certified for shingles, BBB A+ accredited, working in the Salt Lake Valley since 2017.
One thing worth checking before you call anyone: a Salt Lake City mailing address does not always mean the property sits inside Salt Lake City’s permit jurisdiction. ZIP codes such as 84107, 84117, 84118, 84121, 84123 and 84124 carry a Salt Lake City postal name but fall under Murray, Holladay, Kearns, Cottonwood Heights and Taylorsville for permitting. Which city issues the permit changes the filing, not the roof.
Salt Lake City requires a permit for roofing repairs and replacements, and the application runs through the city’s Re-Roofing Questionnaire. It asks for the existing roofing material, the proposed material and the existing roof deck type, then three questions that decide whether the job needs an engineer.
Will the existing roofing be removed? If not, the number of existing layers has to be declared. Will the added roofing weight exceed 3 pounds per square foot? Anything over that threshold triggers structural verification. Does the building have unreinforced masonry parapets or rooftop appendages such as chimneys, tanks or signs? On commercial buildings that triggers design calculations for bracing and anchorage, with one and two family dwellings excepted.
That 3 psf line is why an overlay is not automatically the cheaper route in Salt Lake City. Laying a second layer of asphalt over the first can push the assembly past the threshold and turn a straightforward re-roof into an engineered one. Dedication Roofing weighs the existing assembly before recommending an overlay, and pulls the permit either way so the filing is not the property owner’s problem.
A property owner can pull their own roofing permit only on an owner-occupied primary residence, for general maintenance valued under $3,000, and only where the work is non-structural. Rental and commercial properties require a state-licensed contractor. Licenses can be verified through Utah’s Division of Professional Licensing.
Salt Lake City publishes its own design criteria, and the numbers are worth knowing before you compare quotes, because they set what the roof is actually supposed to survive.
Ground snow load. A minimum of 28 pounds per square foot for projects at or below 4,239 feet above sea level. Higher ground carries a higher figure, which is why a bench property and a valley floor property are not the same job.
Wind. 115 mph for residential construction, measured as a 3 second gust at 33 feet above ground. Hold that next to the shingle warranty you are being quoted. The Malarkey limited wind warranty is 110 mph as standard and rises to 130 mph only when the shingles go on with the rest of the Malarkey system, starter, ridge and underlayment included. One of those numbers sits below the city design wind speed and the other sits above it, and which one you end up with depends on how the roof is assembled rather than on which shingle is written on the quote.
Frost depth. 30 inches.
Seismic design category. D2 for residential and D for commercial. That is the reason the re-roofing questionnaire asks about unreinforced masonry parapets and rooftop appendages at all.
Climate zone. 5B, which is what puts the ice barrier requirement on the roof in the first place.
Salt Lake City has Local Historic Districts, and the rule inside one catches owners out. The city preservation guidance states that all exterior work on a property in a local Historic District requires approval, with the exception of paint color and minor maintenance. That approval is a Certificate of Appropriateness, issued through Planning.
The guidance does not name roofing specifically. A roof is exterior work and the only exceptions listed are paint color and minor maintenance, so a replacement, and particularly a change of roofing material, is likely to need approval. We are not going to tell you it definitely does, because that call belongs to Planning rather than to a contractor. Check with Planning staff before anything is ordered.
What it changes in practice is sequence rather than the roof itself. If a material change needs approving, that is a conversation for estimate stage, not for the morning the delivery arrives.
Downtown Salt Lake City runs on flat and low-slope roofs, and that is its own discipline. Dedication Roofing is an IB (Industry’s Best) certified applicator for commercial roof systems, the certification that makes a 25-Year No Dollar Limit warranty available on a Salt Lake City building. The failure mode worth watching is ponding: water still standing 48 hours after the rain stopped means the roof is not draining as designed, and a valley winter freezes and thaws that water against the membrane seams all season.
The rest of it is on the commercial flat roofing page.
A roof only performs as well as the edge details around it. Alongside roofing, Dedication Roofing installs and repairs siding, vented soffit and aluminum-wrapped fascia on Salt Lake City homes.
Ventilation is the part most often got wrong. Utah residential code requires net free ventilating area of 1/150 of the vented space, reduced to 1/300 where at least 40 percent and not more than 50 percent of that area sits in the upper portion of the attic, with those upper ventilators no more than 3 feet below the ridge. Ridge vent without open soffit intake does not satisfy that. It pulls replacement air out of the house through ceiling gaps instead, carrying household moisture up into the attic where it condenses on the sheathing.
Salt Lake County sits in Climate Zone 5B, which means an ice barrier is required from the eave edge to a point at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line. Housing built before that requirement was adopted will not have one unless it was added during a later re-roof, and on Salt Lake City’s older stock that is worth confirming rather than assuming.
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Yes — Dedication Roofing provides free, no-obligation inspections and estimates in Salt Lake City, for homes and commercial buildings alike. You get a written estimate plus photos of what we found on the roof, so you can compare other quotes against the same information
Dedication Roofing is based in West Valley City, roughly ten minutes from most of Salt Lake City, so the crew can usually get out quickly for an active leak. We’ll tarp or temporarily seal it to stop water getting in, then schedule the permanent repair.
Dedication Roofing holds IB (Industry’s Best) certification for commercial roof systems and Malarkey certification for residential asphalt shingles. Both require installation to manufacturer specification, which is what makes the extended warranties available.
Yes. Dedication Roofing pulls the permits Salt Lake City requires for roofing work and completes the city’s Re-Roofing Questionnaire, which asks for the existing and proposed roofing materials, the deck type, whether the old roofing is being removed, how many layers remain if it is not, and whether the added weight exceeds 3 pounds per square foot. Permit and inspection timing is built into the quoted schedule, so there are no surprise delays once work starts.
Material choice does most of the work. Impact-resistant Malarkey shingles handle hail and high wind better than standard three-tab, and flat-roof membranes are installed with expansion tolerance so seams don’t split through the valley’s temperature swings.
On IB membrane flat roofs, Dedication Roofing’s IB certification qualifies the company for 25-Year No Dollar Limit (NDL) warranties — the manufacturer backs the roof, with no dollar cap on a covered claim. Shingle roofs carry the manufacturer’s warranty for the system installed.
No, and it matters for the permit rather than for the roof. ZIP codes including 84107, 84117, 84118, 84121, 84123 and 84124 carry a Salt Lake City postal name while the property itself sits under Murray, Holladay, Kearns, Cottonwood Heights or Taylorsville for permitting. The roof is the same either way. Which city issues the permit, what its questionnaire asks and when it inspects are not. Dedication Roofing checks the jurisdiction before filing anything.
Salt Lake City published design criteria set a minimum ground snow load of 28 pounds per square foot for projects at or below 4,239 feet, a residential wind speed of 115 mph measured as a 3 second gust at 33 feet, a frost depth of 30 inches, and seismic design category D2 for residential and D for commercial. The city sits in climate zone 5B. The wind figure is the one worth comparing against a shingle warranty, because a standard Malarkey limited wind warranty is 110 mph and only reaches 130 mph with a full Malarkey system.
Probably, and it should be checked before anything is ordered. Salt Lake City preservation guidance states that all exterior work on a property in a local Historic District requires approval, with paint color and minor maintenance the only exceptions. That approval is a Certificate of Appropriateness through Planning. Roofing is not named explicitly in that guidance, so the determination belongs to Planning staff rather than to a contractor, and a change of roofing material is the version most likely to need it.
