Detroit Residential Roof Installation — Residential & Commercial

Detroit Roof Pros provides professional residential roof installation in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across southeast Michigan. 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.

Detroit's structural numbers are mild by Michigan standards. Wayne County is listed at a 20 pound ground snow load, the lightest band in this corner of the state, with Northville the only jurisdiction in the county called out higher. The statewide climatic table sets a 90 mile an hour design wind speed and a 42 inch frost line to go with it.

What is not mild is the ice barrier. Michigan's table answers yes to ice barrier underlayment for the entire state, so a new deck here gets a membrane from the lowest roof edges to a point at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line, with an additional 36 inches measured along the slope on anything 8:12 or steeper. The light snow load does not buy an exemption.

On infill construction the roof is usually inside somebody else's contract already. The useful question is not whether we are better than the builder's roofer. It is who owns the window between the framing inspection and the first rain, because that is the gap where a new house gets wet and nobody has written down whose problem it is.

Material should be the least interesting decision on the job. Architectural asphalt over a well nailed deck is right on most new houses here, and metal pays on long simple planes or on a porch roof nobody wants to maintain. We quote both and say which one the roof shape actually rewards.

Permits and inspections run through the city's Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, and framing is inspected while the deck and its connections are still open to view. We photograph the nailing pattern and the ice barrier line before any of it is covered, because once shingles are on, nobody can prove what is underneath without taking them off.

We are licensed in Michigan as a residential builder and as a maintenance and alteration contractor in the roofing classification, and we belong to the Michigan Roofing Contractors Association. If your general contractor carries his own roofer, keep him and let us quote the deck and dry-in alone. On a new build, owning the dry-in is worth more than owning the shingle.

Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, plaster-and-lath ceiling planes, square-edge 1x6 board sheathing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Redford.

The Full Scope

Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Roof Pros

• ✓We label every roof plane attic above or finished space above before we price anything, because that is what decides whether a repair or a replacement is the honest answer.
• ✓The inspection happens indoors as well as outdoors. A pin moisture meter on plaster at the knee-wall base finds what a scuttle-hole inspection structurally cannot reach.
• ✓Deck work is priced as its own line. Square-edge 1x6 board sheathing is renailed where sound and overlaid by the section where it is not, with the square footage stated.
• ✓Ventilation is quoted as a path, not a product. If the wood soffit behind your aluminum was never cut open, a ridge vent has been drawing on nothing for years.

The standards behind residential roof installation

Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The residential roof installation work we do in Detroit 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 residential roof installation project in Detroit 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 (833) 427-4003 for a free residential roof installation free estimate in Detroit, or request a quote on our contact page and we'll get right back to you.

Services That Pair With This

• Commercial Roof Installation
• Roof Replacement
• Roof Repair
• Asphalt Shingle Roofs