Appleton Residential Roof Installation — Residential & Commercial

Appleton Roof Pros provides professional residential roof installation in Appleton, WI for residential and commercial properties across the Fox Cities. New work, not tear-off. A house under frame, an addition or a rear ell, a porch roof, a garage or an accessory unit, or a deck going back to bare wood because the sheathing is being replaced. Failed shingles and disposal are on our roof replacement page.

Wisconsin's ice dam rule turns on a number your drawings already contain. The Uniform Dwelling Code requires ice dam protection only on shingled or shake roofs that extend over a heated area and have a slope of 4:12 or less.

Draw the porch at 3:12 and the membrane is mandatory there. Draw it at 5:12 and the code stops asking.

Where it does apply, the dimension is specific and unlike the national rule. The protection has to run at least 30 inches up the roof slope from the roof edge, and at least 12 inches up the slope past the inner face of the exterior wall. Sheet metal is allowed as well as a product labeled to ASTM D 1970, which surprises people who expect only a membrane.

That makes the low-slope sections of an Appleton build the part to settle at the plan stage. A porch, a shed dormer or a rear ell drawn under 4:12 carries a different assembly, a different manufacturer instruction sheet and a different detail where it meets the wall above. We price those lines separately so the slope decision is visible while it is still a drawing.

Sequence is the other thing a new build buys from us. The deck goes down, the eave work and underlayment dry it in, and the rough inspection covering general construction is called before anything is concealed. Framing left open through a Fox Valley week of rain costs more to dry out than the roof cost to install.

We would rather you spent money there than on the field shingle. Architectural asphalt is the sensible material on almost every new house in this county. A properly adhered membrane on the porch, flashed up into the wall rather than caulked to it, is where a new build either stays dry for decades or does not.

One- and two-family permits are pulled on the Dwelling Contractor certification and the named Qualifier certification, both of which we carry and print on your estimate, and the rough inspection is called before anything is covered. If your builder already has a roofer in his rotation, let him run it. We will take the porch and the ell alone if that is the part nobody wants.

Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a pitch reading taken at every plane with a two-foot level, flat-lock metal pans soldered across a porch field, a granulated modified-bitumen cap sheet lapped onto a porch deck, apron flashing carried up behind the wall course above the roof, kick-out diverters at the low end of every roof-to-wall run, tapered sleepers built up to give a dead-flat ell some fall — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Appleton and nearby communities including Grand Chute, Greenville, Harrison, Shawano.

Everything in Scope

Why Appleton Chooses Appleton Roof Pros

• ✓We put a level on every roof section and write the pitch on the estimate, because the number below 2:12 is what decides whether a shingle is even permitted up there.
• ✓The front porch, the kitchen ell and the back stoop get their own line, their own material and their own price. One figure for the whole address hides the part that is actually failing.
• ✓Where a shallow roof meets a wall we lift a course of siding and put the flashing behind it. Metal slipped under the existing course and caulked along the top edge is the most common defect we find on the pre-1940 blocks.
• ✓We tell owners the main field has years left in it. Quite often the appendage needs doing now and the field does not, and writing that down costs us the bigger sale on purpose.

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 Appleton 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 Appleton 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 (855) 774-4521 for a free residential roof installation free estimate in Appleton, or request a quote on our contact page and we'll get right back to you.

Work That Often Comes With It

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