Las Cruces Premium Roofing provides professional chimney & curb flashing in Las Cruces, NM for residential and commercial properties across the Mesilla Valley. Very few Las Cruces roofs have the tall masonry chimney this trade's flashing literature imagines. Only about 2.3 percent of the city's housing units were built before 1940, so what actually penetrates roofs here is a different and much more troublesome list.
The dominant penetration in this county is the roof-mounted evaporative cooler. A swamp cooler sits on a curb, runs water across a roof for six months of the year, is climbed on every spring for pad changes, and in a great many cases was flashed once when it was installed and never again since. It causes more leaks in Dona Ana County than chimneys, valleys and skylights combined.
Flashing a cooler curb properly means treating it as a curb and not as an accessory. A base flashing worked up the curb face, a counter flashing over it so the joint sheds rather than relies on sealant, and a route for the condensate and bleed line that does not simply discharge onto the covering. The bleed line running onto shingles is a slow, invisible, entirely preventable failure.
Gas flues and B-vents are the next most common penetration and they have the same core defect, which is a storm collar sealed with caulk and then forgotten. Sealant in this ultraviolet load chalks and shrinks back from the metal within a few years. A proper collar and a lapped detail does not depend on the caulk staying flexible, which is the whole point.
Where real masonry does exist, we flash it the way it ought to be flashed. Step pieces woven course by course instead of one long bent apron. Counter flashing set into a reglet cut into the mortar and sealed there. A saddle behind any chimney broad enough to collect debris on its upslope face. Counter flashing surface-stuck to brick with a bead of caulk is a repair with a date stamped on it.
One theme runs through all of it. Any detail relying on a sealant bead to stay flexible under this sun has maybe a few years in it, and it will let go during the one week of the year that matters. Flashing is metal doing geometry. Sealant assists the metal, never substitutes for it, and a roof carrying a lot of caulk is really a roof carrying a lot of future appointments.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — HUD-code roof pans re-seamed with embedded reinforcing fabric, silicone restoration membrane applied at 22 to 26 dry mils, roof-mounted evaporative cooler curbs with base and counter flashing, 29-gauge exposed-fastener panel refastened to oversize diameter screws, tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a quarter inch per foot with crickets, two-ply granulated modified bitumen over a low-slope valley-floor deck — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Las Cruces and nearby communities including Sunland Park, Chaparral, Anthony, Santa Teresa.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney & curb flashing in Las Cruces covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney & curb flashing work in Las Cruces, NM. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair Las Cruces
- roof flashing repair NM
- step flashing installation
- counter flashing reglet
- evaporative cooler curb flashing
- swamp cooler roof leak flashing
- b vent storm collar
- chimney cricket saddle
- roof penetration flashing
- pipe boot flashing replacement
- masonry chimney flashing
- flashing sealant failure
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Las Cruces services.
Materials, equipment and how we do chimney & curb flashing
The difference between chimney & curb flashing that lasts and chimney & curb flashing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with HUD-code roof pans re-seamed with embedded reinforcing fabric, silicone restoration membrane applied at 22 to 26 dry mils, roof-mounted evaporative cooler curbs with base and counter flashing, 29-gauge exposed-fastener panel refastened to oversize diameter screws, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Las Cruces job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in the Mesilla Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do chimney & curb flashing outside Las Cruces
Las Cruces Premium Roofing covers Las Cruces and the surrounding communities of the Mesilla Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in Sunland Park, NM — Dona Ana County, population 16,702
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in Chaparral, NM — Dona Ana County, population 16,551
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in Anthony, NM — Dona Ana County, population 8,693
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in Santa Teresa, NM — Dona Ana County, population 5,044
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in University Park, NM — Dona Ana County, population 3,007
- Chimney & Curb Flashing in Vado, NM — Dona Ana County, population 2,930
Start on the Las Cruces Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Las Cruces Chooses Las Cruces Premium Roofing
- ✓We settle the recover question with a core cut before quoting, so you learn whether New Mexico's rewritten reroofing rule permits a second layer on your roof or forces a full tear-off.
- ✓We price manufactured home roofs as restoration work first, because a sound factory metal pan cleaned, re-seamed and coated is a warranted roof at a small fraction of a replacement.
- ✓We say where our license stops. Structural work on a HUD-code home answers to the Manufactured Housing Division, and framing changes answer to a framing or general building classification, not to a roofing license.
- ✓We diagnose leaks by controlled water testing rather than waiting for weather, because a roof here gets tested on roughly 24.5 days a year and a defect can hide for a season.
The standards behind chimney & curb flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney & curb flashing work we do in Las Cruces follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every chimney & curb flashing project in Las Cruces gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free chimney & curb flashing free estimate in Las Cruces, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.