West Allis Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair & Layer Counts

West Allis Roof Pros covers roof replacement and tear-offs, leak repair, hail and wind work, low-slope membrane, standing seam metal, skylights, gutters, fascia and soffit, chimney flashing and commercial roofing. Architectural asphalt laminate, twenty-four gauge steel, EPDM, TPO and modified bitumen, ice barrier, synthetic underlayment, and alley garage roofs priced on their own merits.

One local rule shapes how we quote all of it. The city's own permit bulletin says a building permit is not required to re-roof a dwelling, and that the code allows two layers of roofing material in total. So there is a hard limit on your house and no inspection anywhere behind it, which means the number of layers already up there is unknown until somebody opens a probe and looks.

That is where every estimate we write begins. We cut a probe at the rake, count what is there, photograph it, and tell you whether you still have a layover available or whether the only honest quote left is a tear-off. Then we record the finished count on the warranty, because nothing about your roof is going to enter a municipal file.

About West Allis Roof Pros in West Allis, WI

West Allis Roof Pros works West Allis, West Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Greenfield, Milwaukee, New Berlin, Brookfield and the rest of Milwaukee and eastern Waukesha counties. Residential replacement and repair, alley garage roofs, low-slope membrane, gutters, fascia and soffit, and storm work.

This city was platted around the Allis-Chalmers works after 1900 and built out in bungalows and workers' cottages on lots too narrow for a driveway, with detached garages reached from rear alleys. That geometry decides how we work: where the container goes, which slopes need a rope, how close a garage eave sits to somebody else's grass, and why the intake side of a ventilation system is often the side that cannot be opened.

There is work we will turn down. We will not lay a third layer on a house even though no inspector would ever see it. We will talk you out of tile on a bungalow on framing and access grounds before we discuss price.

And when a probe shows you have a good single layer with years left, we will quote you the cheaper layover and say so, even though the tear-off pays us far better. We would rather still be your roofer when that roof does finally come due.

How It Works

1. Probe Cut and Layer Count. Before any number gets quoted we open a small probe at the rake and count what is already on the house. You get the photograph. That one fact decides whether a second layer is still available to you or whether this roof has to go down to the boards, and it changes the price substantially.
2. Access Plan Before Pricing. We walk the lot and settle where the container sits, where the ladders stand and which slopes can only be reached from the alley. On a street without driveways that is not a detail. It sets the crew size, the schedule and the disposal cost, and we would rather agree it with you than discover it.
3. Deck Photographed, Then Closed. On a tear-off the bare sheathing gets photographed and the file reaches you before any underlayment goes down, so you can see the boards you paid to replace. Then ice barrier at the eaves and valleys, synthetic across the field, and the ventilation path actually built rather than assumed.
4. The Record You Keep. You finish with photographs organized by slope, a written tally of replaced boards, the finished layer count and the warranty. Nobody from the city will ever write any of that down for you. When you sell, or when an adjuster asks about the condition before a storm, that file is the only evidence there is.