West Allis Residential Roof Installation — Residential & Commercial

West Allis Roof Pros provides professional residential roof installation in West Allis, WI for residential and commercial properties across Milwaukee and eastern Waukesha counties. Re-roofing a house in West Allis needs no building permit; the city's own bulletin says as much. New construction is an entirely different animal, and the paperwork is the first thing about it that changes.

A new structure, an addition, or a dormer that alters the frame is permitted and inspected work. That is why we carry both of Wisconsin's dwelling credentials, the Dwelling Contractor certification held by the company and the Dwelling Contractor Qualifier held by a named individual, and why the city, holding delegated state authority, is the one inspecting it. The permit and the inspection are the two things a re-roof here never taught anybody to expect.

The Uniform Dwelling Code wants a rough inspection covering general construction including framing, made after the rough work is built and before it gets concealed, and work may not pass that point until the inspection is done. On a roof that is a sequencing problem rather than a paperwork one: deck open, inspected, then dried in, in that order. Material gets staged after that inspection, so nothing on the deck sits in the inspector's way.

Then the detail that catches people on a West Allis bungalow. Ice dam protection is required where a shingled roof over heated space sits at 4 in 12 or shallower, reaching at least 30 inches up from the roof edge and at least 12 inches beyond the inner face of the wall. A shed dormer is very often exactly that shallow. On a bungalow the dormer is usually also the plane with the shortest run to the gutter.

The steep main slopes beside it fall outside that rule, so membrane there is a specification we write rather than a minimum we are meeting. We run it at eaves and valleys regardless, and we sheet the low-slope dormer plane in full, because that is the plane where water stands once the gutter line freezes in January. Milwaukee County winters make that plane the one deciding whether the ceiling under it stays dry.

Laminated asphalt over a correctly nailed deck, detailed to the manufacturer's published instructions and to the NRCA manual for steep slope, is the honest specification for nearly every new roof here. If a roofer already sits inside your builder's number, leave it there. We want the dormer, the addition tie-in, and the plane nobody else wants to detail. If your project is a plain gable, say so and take the simplest honest bid on the table.

Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a probe cut opened at the rake to count existing roofing layers, 1x8 board sheathing laid with gaps over rafters at 24 inches, a fire-rated soffit board on the setback side of an alley garage, rigid chutes carried up behind a four-foot knee wall, site roll-formed standing seam fed up from the alley apron, a framed saddle set behind a shed dormer to split the flow — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve West Allis and nearby communities including Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Greenfield, Franklin.

What We Handle

Why West Allis Chooses West Allis Roof Pros

• ✓We open a probe cut at the rake and photograph the layer count before quoting, because West Allis allows two layers and inspects none of them
• ✓We will not install a third layer on any house, and we will tell you plainly that nobody from the city would ever have caught it
• ✓Every estimate names where the container sits and which slopes get worked from a rope, because a lot without a driveway changes the job
• ✓Ventilation chutes go in behind the knee walls while the roof is open, since the finished half story blocks the path the city bulletin assumes

The standards behind residential roof installation

Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The residential roof installation work we do in West Allis follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.

Every residential roof installation project in West Allis gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.

Ready to get started? Call (833) 396-9089 for a free residential roof installation free estimate in West Allis, or request a quote on our contact page and we'll get right back to you.

Other Work We Do

• Commercial Roof Installation
• Roof Replacement
• Roof Repair
• Asphalt Shingle Roofs