Detroit Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Ferndale, MI — Oakland County, population 19,190. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Ferndale homes and businesses.
Ferndale property owners near Geary Park, the Nine Mile Road corridor count on Detroit Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Ferndale. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Detroit to every job in Ferndale, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 427-4003 for a free roofing estimate in Ferndale, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Ferndale, MI
The biggest property damage figure anywhere in Oakland County's storm record carries Ferndale's name, and it is not a roof number. The flash flood of 11 August 2014 logged 400 million dollars of property damage countywide with Ferndale as the recorded location. That was rainfall into basements, not water through shingles, and any contractor who blurs the two is selling you something.
What the flood does explain is the housing. Ferndale carries the oldest stock in Oakland County on this list: 42.4 percent of its 10,927 units predate 1940, with a median year built of 1945. Small pre-war lots, tight alleys, no storm sewer capacity designed for a city this dense, and roofs framed before plywood existed.
Pre-war framing here means square-edge board sheathing rather than sheet material, and it means asbestos-cement is a live possibility on the older streets. Michigan's licensing act reserves friable asbestos work to licensed abatement contractors under MCL 338.3207, and we do not hold that license. If it turns up on your deck we stop and tell you.
The wind history is real and separate. On 24 August 2007 a 56 mph gust brought down dozens of trees throughout Ferndale with 75,000 dollars of damage, several homes and vehicles struck. On 15 July 2010 a trained spotter estimated a 65 mph gust here.
Oakland County carries a 25 pound per square foot ground snow load under Michigan's Table R301.2(5), five pounds above the Wayne County figure a mile south of Eight Mile. On a marginal framing check for a dormer addition, that gap occasionally decides the job, and it is worth knowing which side of Eight Mile your parcel sits on.
Ferndale runs its own code program for building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing, and Oakland County operates no county building department. Owner occupancy is 66.6 percent with a third of units rented, which for a city of small houses means a lot of investor-held roofs.
The Ferndale note we would not give in Royal Oak: on these narrow pre-war lots the wall next door is often within a few feet of your valley. We photograph both sides before we start, so that a wet basement across the fence does not become an argument about our tear-off. Ferndale's median year built is 1945, which puts the typical house here a full generation older than anything in Oakland County's outer ring.
Our roofing scope in Ferndale
Detroit Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Ferndale that we do in Detroit — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Metal earns its place on this housing stock in specific spots and not everywhere. We fit a great deal of it on porch roofs, bay tops and rear addition decks, and we talk most homeowners out of a full standing seam reroof on a dormered bungalow.
- Roof Leak Repair — Half the roof planes on a Detroit bungalow have no attic above the ceiling, so there is nowhere to stand with a torch and watch water arrive. The evidence is in the plaster instead, and reading plaster is a skill.
- Roof Skylight Installation — We replace a lot of skylights and we install very few new ones, particularly in a finished half-story. If you have come to this page wanting more light in an upstairs bedroom, read the next two paragraphs before you decide anything.
- Storm Damage Restoration — After a line of storms crosses the river, the calls that matter most are the ones where a ceiling is already wet. On a house with living space directly under the deck, interior damage starts within hours rather than days.
- Tile Roofing — We will usually decline this job, and we would rather explain why once, clearly, than quote it and let somebody else find the problem later. Putting clay or concrete tile on a typical Detroit house is a structural question before it is a roofing question.
- Wind Damage Roofing — A dormered story-and-a-half carries far more linear feet of exposed edge per square of roof than a ranch does. Every dormer adds two rakes, two returns and two valleys.
See the full list of Detroit services, or call (833) 427-4003.
About Ferndale, MI — and why local matters here
Ferndale sits in Oakland County with a population of roughly 19,190, close enough to Detroit that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Geary Park, the Nine Mile Road corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Ferndale properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Oakland County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Ferndale
Call (833) 427-4003 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Ferndale, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Royal Oak, MI and the rest of southeast Michigan. Everything starts at the Detroit Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Ferndale: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Royal Oak, MI and southeast Michigan.