Lafayette Roof Pros: Leak Repair, Replacement & Metal Roofing
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Acadiana, and we meter the attic before we quote the roof.
- ✓Licensed and insured Louisiana roofing contractor
- ✓Free inspection with written moisture and ventilation readings
- ✓No deck left open overnight, ever
- ✓Written workmanship warranty on every installation
Why Lafayette Chooses Lafayette Roof Pros
- ✓We meter the attic before we quote the roof, because in Acadiana the deck fails before the covering does
- ✓Net free vent area is calculated for intake and exhaust and included in the roof price, not sold afterward
- ✓Deck replacement is quoted as a specific allowance in sheets so the number does not move once the roof is open
- ✓We will tell you when a ceiling stain is condensation and not a leak, even though it is the smaller job
- ✓We refuse to coat a wet low-slope assembly or install a powered attic ventilator in this climate
- ✓Tear-offs are sized to what the crew can dry in the same day, with all four tarp edges battened and screwed
How It Works
Attic first, then the roof
We start inside with a moisture meter and a camera, reading sheathing at a dozen points, photographing every rafter bay and measuring what intake and exhaust you actually have. Only then do we get on the roof. It takes about an extra hour and it is the difference between fixing your problem and selling you a roof.
A written report with numbers in it
You get meter readings, a net free area calculation for intake and exhaust, photographs keyed to a slope diagram, and a plain three-part ranking: needed now, needed within a year, and not needed. The third list is usually the longest, and we would rather write it than pad the first.
A quote that names the unknowns
Deck replacement is priced as an allowance in sheets rather than hidden behind a line about wood as needed, so the number does not move on you once the roof is open. Ventilation corrections are included in the roof price, not offered as an extra after the tear-off has started.
Dried in the same day it is opened
We tear off in sections sized to what the crew can dry in before the weather turns, and no deck is left open overnight. Site protection goes down first, magnets run at the end of every day, and we walk the finished roof and the attic with you before we ask for final payment.
Our Roofing Services in Lafayette, LA
Roof Replacement
Most roofs around here get replaced for the wrong reason. The covering looks tired, a crew quotes shingles, and nothing under the shingles is ever examined.
Roof Leak Repair
About half the ceiling stains we are called to in this city are not roof leaks. They are condensation.
Storm Damage Roof Restoration
After a named storm the clock that matters is not the shingle clock. It is the drying clock.
Hail Damage Roof Repair
Most of what gets called hail damage on a Lafayette roof is not hail. It is blistering, and telling you that costs us a job we could otherwise have sold.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Wind is a genuine peril in this parish and we will not soft-pedal it. Lafayette sits far enough inland that people assume the wind runs out before it arrives, and every few years a system proves otherwise.
Roof Inspections
We inspect the attic before we inspect the roof, and that order is not a gimmick. In this climate the roof's real condition is written on the underside of the sheathing, months or years before anything shows on the surface a homeowner or a drone can see.
Asphalt Shingle Roofing
Architectural asphalt is the right covering for most houses in this parish, and the reason it fails early has almost nothing to do with the shingle you pick. It has to do with how hot and how wet the deck beneath runs, and with whether the sealant strips ever bonded.
Metal Roofing
Metal is an excellent roof for this climate and a bad one if it is installed the way most of Acadiana installs it. The panel is not the risk.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon on this side of the state and there is a reason we rarely recommend converting to it. Where it exists, usually on newer stucco-detailed houses, the thing to understand is that tile is not the waterproof layer.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
On a low-slope roof here the vapor drive runs inward most of the year, and that single fact overturns a lot of received wisdom. A vapor retarder placed the way a northern detail book shows it will trap moisture inside the assembly instead of keeping it out.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
A coating is a good product used badly more often than any other item we sell. On a sound roof it adds years cheaply.
Roof Ventilation
This is the page the rest of the site reasons from. In Acadiana an attic is a machine for making condensation unless somebody designs it not to be, and most of the ventilation on most of these houses was installed by reflex rather than by calculation.
Skylights
Most skylight complaints we get in this parish are described as leaks and turn out to be condensation. Water forms on the cold interior glass and frame of a unit surrounded by a humid attic, runs down the shaft, and stains the drywall in exactly the pattern a leak would.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters look like the least technical item on a roof and here they quietly control the most important one. An overflowing gutter soaks the fascia, and behind the fascia sits the soffit vent strip feeding dry air into your attic.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit are sold as trim and they are not trim. The soffit is the intake half of your attic's ventilation system, and the fascia is what keeps water out of it.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a hole cut through the roof plane with a masonry sponge sitting in it, which is why it draws more leak calls than its square footage deserves. In our humidity the masonry itself carries water, and a detail that would pass in a dry climate quietly fails.
Emergency Roof Tarping
A tarp is a thirty-day measure here and we say that out loud before installing one. It buys the time to dry the assembly and schedule a real repair.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in this market splits into two very different moisture problems: low-slope membrane buildings where the water comes from the rooftop equipment, and pre-engineered metal buildings where it forms on the inside of the panel. Neither is a roofing failure in the way an owner usually assumes.
Insurance Claim Support
We document damage and build the file an adjuster can work from. We do not adjust or negotiate it, and will not tell you it will be approved, because in Louisiana that is licensed work and a roofer who promises an outcome is promising something outside his control.
What Lafayette Customers Say
Two other companies quoted me a full roof for a ceiling stain. These guys went in the attic with a meter, found it was condensation off an uninsulated duct, and charged me for baffles and a duct wrap. Stain never came back.
They quoted the deck as an allowance in sheets up front, used seven of the ten, and took the other three off the final invoice without me having to ask. First roofing bill I have ever had come in under the estimate.
Standing seam over our raised house. They insisted on a vented airspace above the deck and explained exactly why. No sweating on the underside, no drips in the attic, and it is noticeably quieter than the old exposed-fastener panel.
Our shop had leaks for three years. They scanned it, cut cores, showed us the insulation was soaked, and refused to sell us the coating we asked for. Tear-off cost more and it has been dry through two wet seasons.
Lafayette Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Lafayette, Louisiana, handling roof leak repair, full roof replacement, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal roofing, asphalt shingle roofs, flat and low-slope membrane work, roof coatings, ventilation, gutters, chimney flashing, skylights and commercial roofing for homes and businesses across the parish.
We work differently from most roofers here, and it comes down to one thing. In a climate this humid a roof usually fails from the attic side first, so we meter sheathing moisture and calculate net free vent area before pricing a covering. That is why about half the ceiling stains we are called to turn out to be condensation rather than water coming through the roof.
Everything we install reflects that: ring-shank deck re-nailing, synthetic underlayment, balanced ridge and soffit ventilation sized by calculation, high-temperature underlayment or a vented airspace under every metal panel, and step flashing with counterflashing cut into masonry rather than sealed to it. Free inspections, written reports with the meter readings and vent calculations included, and a written workmanship warranty on every part of the job we touch.
About Lafayette Roof Pros in Lafayette, LA
Lafayette Roof Pros works across Lafayette Parish and the surrounding Acadiana parishes on residential and commercial roofing, and we built the company around a single local observation: in a climate this humid, most roofs are killed from underneath. Sheathing that has spent twenty years cycling damp loses its grip on fasteners, softens at the panel edges and telegraphs through whatever covering is nailed over it.
So we do the unglamorous part first. Every job starts with a moisture meter in the attic, a count of the actual open soffit area, and a photograph of every rafter bay. We are licensed and insured, we carry a written workmanship warranty, and we install to National Roofing Contractors Association details and the shingle or panel manufacturer's own specification rather than to local habit.
Here is when not to hire us. If you want the cheapest number on the street, we will not be it, because our quotes include deck allowances and ventilation corrections that other bids leave out until the roof is open. If you want a contractor who will tell an adjuster that blistering is hail, that is not us either.
And if the honest diagnosis is that you have a duct condensation problem rather than a roof problem, we will say so and hand the job to an HVAC contractor.
Recent Projects Across Acadiana
Service Areas
Lafayette Roof Pros serves Lafayette, LA and surrounding communities including:
Commercial and light industrial roofing across Acadiana
We maintain, repair and replace low-slope membrane roofs and pre-engineered metal building roofs for retail, office, restaurant, clinic, church, warehouse and light industrial clients across Lafayette Parish and the surrounding parishes.
Most of the leak calls we take on commercial buildings trace back to rooftop equipment or to condensation along the purlin lines rather than to the roof covering itself, so we inspect the penetrations and the insulation before we quote the field.
We work nights and weekends around occupancy, dry in every section we open before the crew leaves, and provide semiannual maintenance programs that catch small failures at a fraction of what a replacement costs.
- ✓TPO and modified bitumen low-slope systems, mechanically attached or adhered
- ✓Tapered insulation to clear standing water within forty-eight hours
- ✓Infrared scanning and core cuts before any recover is quoted
- ✓Rooftop unit curb flashing, condensate line and pitch pocket repair
- ✓Pre-engineered metal building roofs, including under-purlin condensation control
- ✓Walkway pad routed from the roof hatch to every serviceable unit
- ✓Night and weekend work around restaurant, clinic and retail hours
- ✓Semiannual maintenance visits with photographic condition records
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my ceiling stain when it has not rained in a week?
That is condensation, not a roof leak, and it is extremely common in Lafayette. Humid attic air hits a cold surface such as an uninsulated supply duct, an air handler cabinet, or a roofing nail that missed the rafter, and water forms and drips. The fix is ventilation, duct insulation and air sealing rather than roofing. We diagnose which one you have before quoting anything.
How long does a shingle roof actually last in this climate?
Less than the wrapper says, and how much less depends almost entirely on your attic. A well-ventilated deck in Lafayette Parish commonly gets twenty to twenty-five years out of a quality laminated shingle. The same shingle over a starved, saturated attic can be visibly failing at fifteen. The shingle line matters far less than the airflow beneath it.
Is metal roofing a good idea in Lafayette?
Yes, if the assembly is right. Metal radiates heat to a clear night sky and drops below the dew point, so water forms on the underside of the panel unless there is a vented airspace above the deck, an anti-condensation backing bonded to the panel, or a sealed conditioned attic. We specify one of those three on every metal job. Screwed flat to bare sheathing, metal will drip in this parish.
Do you install powered attic fans?
No, and we will talk you out of one. A fan that moves more air than your soffits can supply pulls its makeup air out of your conditioned house, so you cool air and then throw it into the attic. In humid weather it can also drag high dew point outdoor air across cold duct surfaces and create the exact condensation it was sold to prevent. Balanced passive intake and exhaust does the job.
How much of my roof deck will need replacing?
We tell you before we start rather than after. We walk the attic, tap and mark the soft bays and meter the sheathing, then quote a specific allowance in sheets. On a 1970s house with original half-inch decking, four to ten sheets is typical here. On a slab-built house from the last twenty years it is often none, and we will say so.
Should I file an insurance claim for this?
Only if it is genuine storm damage. Wind and impact are covered perils; wear, deterioration and long-term moisture are excluded from essentially every homeowners policy. A lot of what looks like hail on a Lafayette roof is blistering from a hot unventilated deck, and filing on that gets you a denial and a claim on your record. We inspect first and give you a straight answer either way.