Lafayette Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Maurice, LA — Vermilion Parish, population 2,118. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim support, our insured team serves Maurice homes and businesses.
Maurice property owners near St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, U.S. Route 167 count on Lafayette Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Maurice. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Lafayette to every job in Maurice, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 803-8589 for a free roofing estimate in Maurice, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Maurice, LA
Maurice has the newest housing stock in Vermilion Parish by a wide margin and the second newest on this entire list. The median build year is 2011, sixty-nine percent of its 1,009 units went up after 2000, and forty-two percent were built between 2010 and 2019. Ninety-one percent are owner-occupied, the highest ownership rate of the twenty-five towns we serve.
The Census Bureau records Maurice as a village and the state code commission lists it as Maurice, Town of, under credential J.01070. Practically, the town takes the application at city hall and the plans are approved and inspected by an outside engineering firm under contract, the same firm the Vermilion Parish Police Jury uses. So a Maurice roof and a rural Vermilion roof often meet the same inspector.
Eighty-three percent of households here heat with electricity, which means a heat pump and an attic air handler in most of these houses, and fourteen percent of units are manufactured. Newer construction with attic mechanicals is the exact combination that produces a ceiling stain in August with no rain in the forecast, and it is the reason we meter before we quote.
The dated event that matters is 15 May 2008. A tornado began west of Maurice in Vermilion Parish, strengthened to EF2 intensity as it crossed into Lafayette Parish, and dissipated about a mile west of the Acadiana Mall. It is filed under two parishes and two location names, so a single-parish search will find only part of it.
Smaller wind events are more instructive for a roof. On 27 April 2015 a power pole was downed onto a house in Maurice. On 22 October 2017 metal sheds were blown over, power lines and trees came down, and some roof damage was reported. Nickel to quarter size hail fell on 16 April 2021.
Metal roofing is popular in this stretch of U.S. Route 167 and it deserves care here specifically. A metal panel radiates heat to a clear night sky and drops below the dew point, so water forms on the underside unless there is a vented airspace above the deck, a bonded anti-condensation backing, or a sealed conditioned attic. On a new house with a tight envelope, that third option is often already half built.
What we would tell a Maurice owner and not one in Erath four miles south: your roof is probably not old enough to need replacing, so be careful about what you are being sold. Around St. Alphonsus Catholic Church the housing dates from a different era, but the subdivisions carrying most of the population are fifteen years old and their problems are ventilation problems.
About Maurice, LA — and why local matters here
Maurice sits in Vermilion Parish with a population of roughly 2,118, close enough to Lafayette that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, U.S. Route 167.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Maurice properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Vermilion Parish, 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 Maurice
Call (877) 803-8589 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Maurice, 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 Erath, LA and the rest of Acadiana. Everything starts at the Lafayette Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Maurice, LA
Lafayette Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Maurice that we do in Lafayette — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- 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.
- 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.
See the full list of Lafayette services, or call (877) 803-8589.
Popular services in Maurice: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Erath, LA and Acadiana.