Every Roofing Service We Offer in Tuscaloosa, AL

A tear-off is the only hour anyone ever sees your roof deck. In Tuscaloosa that hour is worth more than it is in a calm market, because the sheathing and its nails are what fail here, not the shingles sitting on top of them. West Alabama roofs come apart from the bottom up.

• roof replacement
• reroof
• tear-off and replace
• FORTIFIED roof replacement
• new roof cost
• full roof replacement
• shingle roof replacement
• deck re-nailing
• sealed roof deck
• roof replacement contractor
• residential reroofing

Roof Replacement in Tuscaloosa, AL

Wind leaks almost never drip where the damage is. Water enters at a lifted course on the windward slope, runs the deck under sound shingles, and shows up on a ceiling two rooms away. Chasing the stain is how a repair gets missed twice.

• roof leak repair
• roof repair Tuscaloosa
• leaking roof
• pipe boot replacement
• wind-driven rain leak
• ceiling stain from roof
• valley leak repair
• leak detection
• emergency leak repair
• flashing leak
• shingle repair

Roof Leak Repair in Tuscaloosa, AL

April 27, 2011 set the standard people here measure storms against. The EF4 that crossed 15th Street and McFarland Boulevard killed 64 people and tore through Rosedale, Forest Lake, Alberta City and Holt. Nobody in this city needs storm damage explained to them.

• storm damage roof restoration
• storm damage repair
• roof storm damage
• tornado roof damage
• severe weather roof repair
• post-storm roof scope
• supercell roof damage
• dry-in services
• storm roof rebuild
• roof restoration contractor
• squall line damage

Storm Damage Restoration in Tuscaloosa, AL

Hail rides the same supercells that bring the wind here, so West Alabama does get it, and the stones that fall in a March or April line can be large. What Tuscaloosa is not is a hail-alley market, and that changes what we recommend after an inspection. Real hail damage is a bruise, not a mark.

• hail damage roof repair
• hail damage inspection
• hail bruising shingles
• hail test squares
• impact resistant shingles
• Class 4 shingles
• hail claim inspection
• granule loss
• soft metal hail damage
• hail roof replacement
• hail damage assessment

Hail Damage Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

This is the peril that defines roofing in West Alabama, and we do not soften it. Straight-line wind and inflow on the flank of a supercell will strip part of a slope on a house that never sees a funnel, and it happens here several times a year. The damage has a shape.

• wind damage roof repair
• blown off shingles
• creased shingles
• straight-line wind damage
• missing shingles repair
• wind uplift damage
• partial slope wind loss
• rake edge failure
• unsealed shingle tabs
• wind damage inspection
• downburst roof damage

Wind Damage Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

An inspection is worth paying for only when it produces a document you can act on. Ours produces plane-by-plane photographs, a measured diagram, a shingle identification, and a written repair-or-replace call with the reasoning attached. It is not a walk-around and a handshake.

• roof inspection
• roof certification inspection
• pre-purchase roof inspection
• attic and deck inspection
• post-storm roof inspection
• FORTIFIED evaluator
• roof condition report
• moisture reading decking
• roof life expectancy
• free roof inspection
• roof estimate

Roof Inspections in Tuscaloosa, AL

Asphalt covers almost every roof in Tuscaloosa, and after a partial loss the hard question is never which shingle to buy. It is whether the new work will read as a repair from the street for the next twenty years. Matching is a technical problem with three parts.

• asphalt shingle roofing
• architectural shingles
• laminate shingle roof
• shingle color matching
• discontinued shingle match
• three-tab shingles
• six-nail fastening
• hand-sealing shingles
• ASTM D7158 Class H
• shingle roof installation
• shingle repair and replacement

Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Tuscaloosa, AL

Metal is common in the countryside around Tuscaloosa and rare inside it, and the two situations call for different products. Getting that backwards is how people spend twice what they needed to on a shop roof. Both are worth doing well.

• metal roofing
• standing seam metal roof
• exposed fastener panels
• metal roof re-screw
• barn and shop roofing
• 29 gauge metal panels
• concealed clip metal roof
• metal roof repair
• UL 580 uplift rating
• low slope metal panels
• metal roof replacement

Metal Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

Tile is a small share of the roofs in Tuscaloosa, and we would rather be straight about that than pretend otherwise. It shows up on a scattering of custom houses, on stucco-detailed builds off Rice Mine and Watermelon Road, and on a few churches and civic buildings. The single most useful thing to understand about a tile roof is that the tile is not the waterproofing.

• tile roofing
• concrete tile roof
• clay tile roof
• tile roof relay
• tile underlayment replacement
• broken tile repair
• mortar set ridge
• mechanically fastened ridge
• tile roof leak repair
• salvage tile matching
• tile roof inspection

Tile Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

Most low-slope roofing in Tuscaloosa is not a commercial building. It is the back porch, the carport, the room somebody added in 1978, and the flat section over a garage. Those are where a large share of residential leaks in this city start.

• flat roof repair
• low slope roofing
• TPO roofing
• modified bitumen roof
• porch roof leak
• addition roof replacement
• cover board
• tapered insulation
• ponding water roof
• membrane roofing
• garage flat roof

Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

This is the page where we argue against a product, so here it is plainly: we do not coat steep-slope asphalt shingle roofs, and we turn down that work in Tuscaloosa several times a year. There are three reasons and each one costs a homeowner money. The first is warranty.

• roof coating
• silicone roof coating
• acrylic roof coating
• metal roof coating
• low slope roof restoration
• seam reinforcing fabric
• roof sealing
• elastomeric coating
• roof coating warranty
• restoration coating system
• fastener treatment

Roof Coatings & Sealing in Tuscaloosa, AL

Ventilation is usually pitched as an attic temperature and moisture subject. In Tuscaloosa the sharper issue is structural, because the ridge is the highest-pressure line on the roof and the vent sitting on it is often the weakest thing up there. Watch what happens in a squall line.

• roof ventilation
• ridge vent replacement
• attic ventilation
• soffit intake vents
• wind resistant ridge vent
• net free area
• turbine vent removal
• powered attic fan
• external baffle vent
• attic moisture
• balanced ventilation

Roof Ventilation in Tuscaloosa, AL

Skylights are the detail most likely to survive a wind event and still cost you a ceiling. The unit itself is rarely the problem. The flashing around it, and the choice made when it was installed, almost always is.

• skylight installation
• skylight replacement
• leaking skylight repair
• curb mounted skylight
• deck mounted skylight
• skylight flashing kit
• solar tube skylight
• skylight cricket
• skylight reflashing
• roof window
• skylight glass replacement

Skylights in Tuscaloosa, AL

Gutters here fight two things. One is water volume off a steep asphalt slope in a Deep South thunderstorm. The other is debris from the water oaks that gave Tuscaloosa its old nickname, the Druid City, and those oaks drop tassels every spring into the trough.

• gutter installation
• gutter replacement
• K-style aluminum gutters
• downspout repair
• hidden gutter hangers
• six inch gutters
• gutter guards
• micro mesh gutter guard seri
• gutter cleaning
• rain diversion
• continuous run gutters

Gutters & Downspouts in Tuscaloosa, AL

Fascia and soffit look like trim and behave like structure. In a wind event the soffit is often the first thing to fail on a Tuscaloosa house, and what happens after it fails is the reason this page exists. The mechanism is straightforward.

• fascia repair
• soffit repair
• rotted fascia board
• PVC fascia
• vinyl soffit panels
• vented soffit
• eave repair
• J-channel fastening
• soffit blow-out
• fascia replacement
• drip edge installation

Fascia & Soffit in Tuscaloosa, AL

Chimneys leak more often than any other single detail on a Tuscaloosa roof, and the reason is almost never the chimney. It is that somebody sealed the joint with caulk instead of building a flashing that works without adhesive. A correct masonry chimney flashing has two pieces.

• chimney flashing repair
• chimney leak
• step flashing
• counterflashing reglet
• chimney cricket
• chase cover replacement
• chimney crown repair
• masonry chimney flashing
• flashing replacement
• chimney rain cap
• chimney waterproofing

Chimney Flashing in Tuscaloosa, AL

After a squall line comes through West Alabama the phones do not stop for about three days. The most valuable thing anyone can do in that window is keep water out of a house that is otherwise fine. That is real work, not a placeholder.

• emergency roof tarping
• roof tarp service
• emergency roof repair
• temporary roof cover
• storm dry-in
• reinforced poly tarp
• 24 hour roof tarp
• board up and tarp
• water intrusion control
• after hours roofer
• roof tarp installation

Emergency Tarping in Tuscaloosa, AL

Commercial roofing in Tuscaloosa means three distinct populations, and each behaves differently in wind. There is student housing, the largest concentration of multifamily roof area in the city. There is strip retail along McFarland Boulevard and Skyland.

• commercial roofing
• apartment complex roofing
• multifamily roof replacement
• retail roof repair
• warehouse roofing
• TPO commercial roof
• ES-1 edge metal
• roof asset management
• property manager roofing
• commercial roof survey
• phased reroofing

Commercial Roofing in Tuscaloosa, AL

We are roofers, not public adjusters, and Alabama licenses those separately. What we do is document a loss thoroughly enough that your carrier and your adjuster are looking at the same roof we looked at, which resolves most disputes before they become disputes.

Documentation means each slope plane photographed and measured on its own, test squares marked and counted, soft metals shot close, creasing photographed against a chalk line so it reads in the image, and the shingle brand and line identified from the back of a sample.

• roof insurance claim help
• roof claim documentation
• adjuster meeting roofer
• wind and hail deductible
• fortified roof endorsement
• Strengthen Alabama Homes grant
• roof claim scope
• denied roof claim
• supplement request
• insurance roof inspection
• claim photo documentation

Insurance Claim Help in Tuscaloosa, AL

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Tuscaloosa and West Alabama. 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.