Appleton Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in New London, WI — Waupaca County, population 7,348. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves New London homes and businesses.
New London property owners near the Wolf and Embarrass river confluence, Hatten Park count on Appleton Roof Pros for roof replacement and repair in New London. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Appleton to every job in New London, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 774-4521 for a free roofing estimate in New London, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in New London, WI
Just after midnight on August 6, 2013 an EF2 tornado tracked two miles here and hit a church hard enough to take a large part of its roof away. Two more tornadoes crossed the county line within a mile or three of the city on the same night, and another crossed 1.4 miles south of New London on July 20, 2019.
That is not the only wind event in the file. On August 20, 2010 thunderstorm winds downed more than a thousand trees across the city, blew a twenty-eight foot trailer onto its side and tore a section off the roof of the Sara Lee plant. A town hit that often carries a lot of roofs that were repaired rather than replaced, and repairs made to match a bad original detail.
New London straddles the Outagamie and Waupaca county line, but the building department does not. One inspector covers the whole city from the office on North Shawano Street, working for a private engineering firm under contract, and the city is direct about how it prices: valuation is labor and materials, and if you supply the labor yourself the materials figure is doubled to stand in for it.
The city was established in 1852 and named for New London in Connecticut by a founder who had already built the plank road between Appleton and Stevens Point. It grew as a lumber center and as the head of steamboat navigation on the Wolf River, which is why the older streets carry mill-era houses with generous porches on narrow river lots.
Those porches are the work. A full-width porch here commonly runs somewhere near a foot and a half of fall across its whole depth, terminates against a two-story wall, and has been shingled at least once by somebody who should not have. We price it as its own roof with its own expected life, and we say plainly when the field above it does not need touching.
Two listings here are worth knowing if you own near them: the Thern Farmstead and the Hatten Park land given by William H. Hatten. Work in either neighborhood tends to involve older framing and profiles that are not stock lumber, and we match those from solid stock rather than wrapping them in coil.
The roofing jobs New London calls us for
Appleton Roof Pros covers the same range of work in New London that we do in Appleton — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Metal is the best product available for the shallow roofs on this housing stock and a harder argument on the steep ones. We sell far more porch and ell metal than whole-house metal, and that is a deliberate recommendation rather than an accident of demand.
- Tile Roofing — On this page we usually argue against our own product. Tile is a serious roof and there are real examples of it here, but on the great majority of Appleton houses a conversion is the wrong purchase and we say so early.
- Flat and Low-Slope Roofing — This is the page that matters most on an Appleton house, and on almost every other roofing site it is written about warehouses. Here the low-slope roof is residential: the front porch, the kitchen ell, the sunroom, the back stoop, the shed dormer and the garage off the alley.
- Roof Coatings and Sealing — A coating is a maintenance product with a narrow correct use. Applied to a sound low-slope roof that is simply weathering, it is genuinely the cheapest right answer on the property.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation advice on most roofing sites assumes a house with one attic under one field. Half the roof area we deal with in the older wards has no attic at all, and the standard advice does not simply underperform there.
- Skylights — Skylights fail in this climate for two reasons: the unit was mounted flat to the deck on a slope that required a curb, or the flashing was assembled out of sealant instead of metal. Both are installation decisions, and both are avoidable.
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About New London, WI — and why local matters here
New London sits in Waupaca County with a population of roughly 7,348, close enough to Appleton that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Wolf and Embarrass river confluence, Hatten Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. New London properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Waupaca County, 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 New London
Call (855) 774-4521 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in New London, 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 Buchanan, WI and the rest of the Fox Cities. Everything starts at the Appleton Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in New London: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Buchanan, WI and the Fox Cities.