Water doesn't announce itself politely. It shows up as a brown ring on the ceiling, a musty smell in the attic, or a drip landing in a bucket at 2 a.m. during a storm , and by the time you notice any of those signs, the leak has usually been working on your roof for a while already. That gap between "when the leak started" and "when you found it" is exactly why roof repair trips people up: the...