Roofing in Hidden Springs, ID

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Hidden Springs isn’t a city, and that’s the first thing a roofer needs to know here.

It’s an unincorporated community in Ada County, one of five planned communities the county recognizes. Your building permit goes through Ada County Development Services, not through Boise, even though a Boise mailing address makes people assume otherwise. It is worth confirming at the start, because getting it wrong costs a week.

There’s often a second approval, and it comes before the first. Planned communities usually have architectural guidelines for exterior work. Roof colour and material are normally on that list. We’d check yours before ordering anything, because a pallet of the wrong color shingle is an expensive mistake and a slow one to fix. Worth confirming what your association requires early, and we’ll work to whatever it says.

You’re higher up than the rest of the valley. Hidden Springs sits at about 2,877 feet, several hundred feet above the valley floor and higher than any city we serve. Snow sits longer up here than it does down in Nampa or Caldwell, and the freeze and thaw cycle that works at flashing and pipe boots gets more chances at it. Ada County design values still apply. That’s a 20 psf ground snow load and a 25 psf minimum on the roof. The design wind speed is 90 mph, which is the same standard as the 115 mph ultimate figure in the code.

Most of these roofs went on together. Hidden Springs was developed from the late 1990s onward, so the bulk of its housing arrived in a fairly narrow window. That puts a lot of original roofs in the range where a first replacement stops being hypothetical. A free inspection will tell you where yours actually sits, which is better than guessing from a build date.