Calgary Exteriors

7 Lucky Enterprises is an owner-run roofing, siding, eavestrough and garage company based in Westwinds in the northeast, working across all four quadrants of the city. Calgary's housing stock spans the full range: mature bungalows and infills in Bowness, Bridgeland and Lake Bonavista carrying original or second-generation roofs; 1990s and 2000s subdivisions in Hidden Valley, Douglasdale, Tuscany and Evergreen now reaching their first or second replacement; and current builds going up in Livingston, Cornerstone, Seton, Rangeview and Alpine Park. We install premium warrantied asphalt from IKO, GAF, Malarkey and BP, along with James Hardie and vinyl siding, and back every job with a written workmanship warranty on top of the manufacturer's coverage.

Few cities test an exterior the way Calgary does. Summer hail can bruise a shingle roof in minutes without leaving a single visible hole, chinook winds lift poorly fastened material off rakes and ridges, and the constant freeze-thaw swing between minus thirty and plus thirty works water into every weak seam. We build for it: full ice-and-water shield at eaves and valleys, correctly flashed penetrations, balanced attic ventilation to fight ice damming, and Class 4 impact-rated shingles where you want the strongest hail defence available. Clean sites and magnetic nail sweeps come standard on every crew we send.

Re-roofing in Calgary generally requires a building permit, and we handle that process so your project meets local code and shows up properly in the permit history when you sell. This city knows hail: the June 2020 storm across the northeast became the costliest hailstorm in Canadian history, and roofs bruised in that event were still surfacing on inspection years afterward. We provide free on-site inspections, photo-document storm damage to the standard adjusters accept, meet your adjuster on-site, and work directly with your insurer on approved claims where you typically pay only your deductible.

The city divides into very different roofing problems by quadrant and by era. Northeast communities like Saddle Ridge, Martindale, Taradale, Cornerstone and Redstone sit squarely in the hail corridor and generate the highest volume of storm claims in the city. Northwest neighbourhoods such as Tuscany, Royal Oak, Sage Hill and Evanston take the brunt of chinook wind coming off the foothills. Inner-city areas — Renfrew, Killarney, Marda Loop, Altadore, Mount Pleasant, Capitol Hill — combine mature tree cover with sixty-year-old lane garages that need replacing more often than the houses do. And the deep southeast and southwest suburbs have the largest roof areas and the steepest pitches, which drives the six-inch eavestrough and additional downspouts that a bungalow does not need.

Detached garages are a Calgary specialty of ours, because this city has more lane-access lots than almost any comparable Canadian city. The original single garage from the 1950s in Bowness, Renfrew, Highland Park or Inglewood is now too small for a modern vehicle and too far gone to keep, and replacing it is one of the highest-return exterior projects available on those lots. We build them from the pad up — permits, slab, framing, roofing, siding, soffit, fascia, eavestroughs and doors — and finish the exterior to match the house.

Older Calgary housing shares one problem almost universally, and it is invisible from the ground: blocked attic intake. Decades of insulation top-ups have buried soffit vents in the eaves of a large share of the homes we inspect, which starves the attic of intake air, unbalances the ventilation, and cooks the shingles from below in summer while building ice dams in winter. Clearing that intake and installing baffles is one of the cheapest things anyone can do to extend the life of a roof, and it is why we inspect the attic as well as the roof surface whenever access allows.

Because we do roofing, siding, eavestroughs and garages in-house, a Calgary property gets assessed as one envelope rather than four separate jobs. That matters most on a hail claim — the same storm that bruised your shingles almost certainly dented your eavestroughs, cracked the vinyl on your storm-facing elevation and hit the garage — and it means one contractor, one scope and one warranty rather than three trades pointing at each other.