Every Roofing Service We Offer in Lafayette, LA

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. We probe the deck first, because in this parish the plywood usually gives up before the shingles do.

• roof replacement
• reroof
• tear-off and replace
• new roof installation
• deck replacement
• sheathing re-nailing
• synthetic underlayment
• six-nail fastening pattern
• ridge vent installation
• residential roof replacement
• roof replacement cost

Roof Replacement in Lafayette, LA

About half the ceiling stains we are called to in this city are not roof leaks. They are condensation. Before we sell you a repair, we find out which one you have, because the two problems look identical from the living room and have nothing in common on the roof.

• roof leak repair
• roof repair
• ceiling stain diagnosis
• pipe boot replacement
• valley flashing repair
• attic condensation
• leak detection
• shiner nail condensation
• emergency leak repair
• flashing repair
• roof repair cost

Roof Leak Repair in Lafayette, LA

After a named storm the clock that matters is not the shingle clock. It is the drying clock. In this humidity an assembly that took on water has days, not weeks, before the problem stops being a roof problem and becomes a framing and air-quality problem.

• storm damage roof repair
• storm restoration
• hurricane roof damage
• wet insulation removal
• roof drying
• moisture mapping
• post-storm inspection
• deck replacement after storm
• tropical storm roof damage
• roof restoration
• storm damage assessment

Storm Damage Roof Restoration in Lafayette, LA

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. We would still rather tell you, because a denied claim is worse for you than an honest inspection.

• hail damage roof repair
• hail inspection
• shingle blistering
• hail bruise
• mat fracture
• collateral soft metal damage
• hail claim inspection
• blistering vs hail
• roof hail assessment
• impact damage
• hail damage repair cost

Hail Damage Roof Repair in Lafayette, LA

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. What differs here is what the nails are holding into.

• wind damage roof repair
• uplift resistance
• shingle blow-off
• ring-shank re-nailing
• sealant strip failure
• hand-sealing shingles
• starter course
• rake edge detail
• hurricane wind damage
• roof deck attachment
• wind damage repair cost

Wind Damage Roof Repair in Lafayette, LA

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. An attic pass takes about forty minutes.

• roof inspection
• attic inspection
• moisture meter reading
• net free area calculation
• soffit intake check
• baffle installation check
• pre-purchase roof inspection
• annual roof inspection
• deck moisture content
• roof condition report
• roof inspection cost

Roof Inspections in Lafayette, LA

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. Every laminated shingle relies on a thermoplastic adhesive strip that only bonds once the roof surface gets hot enough for long enough.

• asphalt shingle roofing
• architectural shingles
• laminated shingles
• sealant strip bonding
• hand-sealing
• shingle thermal cycling
• algae-resistant granules
• shingle nailing zone
• starter strip
• shingle roof installation
• asphalt shingle cost

Asphalt Shingle Roofing in Lafayette, LA

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. The underside is, because in air this humid a cold sheet of steel is a condensing surface on every clear night.

• metal roofing
• standing seam metal roof
• Galvalume panels
• exposed fastener metal roof
• anti-condensation underlayment
• vented metal roof assembly
• high-temp underlayment
• metal roof over solid deck
• dissimilar metal corrosion
• metal roof installation
• metal roofing cost

Metal Roofing in Lafayette, LA

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. The underlayment is.

• tile roofing
• concrete tile roof
• clay tile roof
• tile underlayment replacement
• batten and counterbatten
• tile roof relay
• broken tile replacement
• tile roof weight
• structural framing capacity
• tile roof repair
• tile roof cost

Tile Roofing in Lafayette, LA

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.

Sun heats a dark membrane, the moisture in the deck and in the humid air above it is driven downward toward the cool conditioned space, and it condenses at the first surface cold enough to catch it.

• flat roof repair
• low-slope roofing
• TPO membrane
• modified bitumen
• wet insulation survey
• infrared roof scan
• core cut testing
• roof insulation replacement
• tapered insulation
• vapor retarder placement
• flat roof replacement cost

Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Lafayette, LA

A coating is a good product used badly more often than any other item we sell. On a sound roof it adds years cheaply. On a wet assembly it seals the moisture in, and the roof it was supposed to save is destroyed faster than if nobody had touched it.

• roof coating
• silicone roof coating
• acrylic roof coating
• metal roof coating
• roof sealing
• elastomeric coating
• coating over ponding water
• seam sealing
• reflective roof coating
• coating warranty
• roof coating cost

Roof Coatings & Sealing in Lafayette, LA

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. The rule is balance and the arithmetic is simple.

• roof ventilation
• attic ventilation
• ridge vent
• soffit intake vents
• net free area
• balanced ventilation
• insulation baffles
• powered attic ventilator
• unvented conditioned attic
• spray foam roof deck
• attic ventilation cost

Roof Ventilation in Lafayette, LA

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. The giveaway is timing and location.

• skylight installation
• skylight replacement
• skylight leak repair
• curb-mounted skylight
• deck-mounted skylight
• insulated light shaft
• condensation on skylight
• tubular daylight device
• skylight flashing kit
• solar tube installation
• skylight cost

Skylights in Lafayette, LA

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. A gutter problem becomes a ventilation problem within a season.

• gutter installation
• K-style aluminum gutters
• continuous run gutters
• downspout replacement
• gutter repair
• hidden hangers
• gutter guards
• fascia water damage
• gutter slope
• downspout drainage
• gutter installation cost

Gutters & Downspouts in Lafayette, LA

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. In this climate that makes the eave the most functionally important twelve inches on the whole house.

• fascia repair
• soffit repair
• vented soffit panels
• soffit intake area
• rotted fascia replacement
• aluminum fascia wrap
• insulation baffles
• eave ventilation
• soffit vent net free area
• wood rot repair
• fascia replacement cost

Fascia & Soffit in Lafayette, LA

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. The correct assembly has two independent layers.

• chimney flashing repair
• step flashing
• counterflashing
• reglet cut flashing
• chimney cricket
• chase cover replacement
• chimney leak repair
• masonry chimney moisture
• flashing replacement
• chimney saddle
• chimney flashing cost

Chimney Flashing in Lafayette, LA

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. Left up through a Gulf South summer, it becomes part of the problem it was meant to solve.

• emergency roof tarping
• roof tarp installation
• storm tarp
• batten tarping
• temporary roof cover
• emergency roof repair
• 24 hour roof tarp
• tarp screw sealing
• post-storm tarping
• roof leak emergency
• emergency tarp cost

Emergency Roof Tarping in Lafayette, LA

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. On membrane roofs, the rooftop air conditioning units are the single largest source of leak calls we take.

• commercial roofing
• TPO roofing
• modified bitumen roofing
• metal building roof
• rooftop unit curb flashing
• condensate line penetration
• under-purlin condensation
• warehouse roof repair
• roof maintenance program
• commercial roof replacement
• commercial roofing cost

Commercial Roofing in Lafayette, LA

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. The most valuable thing we do happens before you file.

• roof insurance claim
• storm damage documentation
• named storm deductible
• actual cash value roof
• replacement cost value
• adjuster inspection
• roof claim denial
• wind and hail claim
• claim documentation photos
• roof damage report
• insurance claim help

Insurance Claim Support in Lafayette, LA

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Lafayette and Acadiana. 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.