Every Roofing Service We Offer in Detroit, MI

New construction, not replacement. A house being framed on an infill lot, an addition or dormer, a garage or an accessory dwelling, or a roof going back to bare deck because the sheathing is being replaced. Tear-off and disposal belong on our roof replacement page.

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Residential Roof Installation in Detroit, MI

The commercial work here is mostly older brick: two-story storefronts with flats above, small industrial buildings, church halls, and mixed-use blocks along the avenues. Almost all of it is low slope sitting over occupied space, which keeps our approach broadly consistent with the houses we work on. That means we ask the same question we ask on a bungalow.

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Commercial Roof Installation in Detroit, MI

A tear-off here is not one decision. It is one decision per roof plane, and the thing that decides it is what sits under the sheathing: a walk-in attic you can stand in, or a bedroom ceiling three inches away. Data Driven Detroit, working from Assessor records and the Motor City Mapping survey, describes the typical house in this city as a brick, one to one-and-a-half story single family home built in 1937.

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Roof Replacement in Detroit, MI

Damage you can point to, not chase. A course of shingles the wind took off a dormer cheek, a split pipe boot, failed step flashing on a wall return, a ridge cap that has blown apart, a soft spot in board sheathing found during a routine look. Michigan gives you one of the clearest permit lines anywhere, and it is drawn at the deck.

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Roof Repair in Detroit, MI

Asphalt is the right covering for very nearly every house in this city, and the interesting decisions are not about brand. They are about what the shingle is being nailed into, and how many layers are already sitting up there. Detroit decks are usually square-edge 1x6 boards laid tight, sometimes with quarter-inch gaps that opened as the wood dried over eighty winters.

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Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Detroit, MI

The call we take in February is about ice at the eave. The call we take in July is about a reflective shingle. Often it is the same house, and the color of the covering is in neither answer.

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Cool Roof Installation in Detroit, MI

The low-slope roofs on this housing stock are small, and most of them sit directly over a finished room with a plaster ceiling and no cavity worth speaking of. That, and not the membrane on top, is what makes them fail early.

A typical example is a twelve-by-fourteen rear addition or an enclosed side porch, framed with two-by-sixes at a quarter-inch per foot, the ceiling nailed straight to the underside, insulation stuffed hard into the bay, and nothing above it but sheathing and roofing.

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Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Detroit, MI

Most of the Detroit roofs we get called to inspect for hail turn out to have none. Saying that first is the honest version of this page, and it is why we will usually talk a caller out of a claim rather than into one. Southeast Michigan gets hail.

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Hail Damage Roofing in Detroit, MI

On claims, the single most useful thing we do is talk somebody out of filing. Age-related deterioration is not a covered peril on any policy we have read, and a claim filed on a worn roof usually ends as a denial with an inspection attached to your record. So the first visit is a triage rather than a sales call.

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Insurance Claim Help in Detroit, MI

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. The reason is geometry again.

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Metal Roofing in Detroit, MI

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. Water entering a rafter bay does not fall straight down.

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Roof Leak Repair in Detroit, MI

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. In a bungalow the sloped ceiling is the rafter bay, and that bay is the only insulation standing between you and a Michigan February.

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Roof Skylight Installation in Detroit, MI

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. That reorders the work.

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Storm Damage Restoration in Detroit, MI

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. The arithmetic is not subtle.

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Tile Roofing in Detroit, MI

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. Wind finds edges, so geometry decides where this house fails.

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Wind Damage Roofing in Detroit, MI

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Detroit and southeast Michigan. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.