Appleton Roof Pros provides professional tile roofing in Appleton, WI for residential and commercial properties across the Fox Cities. 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.
Weight is the first reason. Concrete tile runs several times the load of a laminated shingle and clay is heavier again. The rafters over a 1905 porch are commonly nominal two-by-sixes at twenty-four inches on center, sized for a plank deck and a light covering. Nobody should be putting tile on that without a structural engineer's letter naming the load, and we do not.
Freeze and thaw is the second. Wisconsin runs the water absorption and freezing cycles that separate a grade-one tile from everything below it, and a tile chosen for a warmer market spalls its face off here in a decade. Where we do specify tile it is a cold-climate rated product with the test data attached to the proposal, and it costs what that implies.
Access is the third and it is specific to the older platting. A pallet of tile has to be landed on the roof, and on a forty-foot lot with the neighbor eight feet away, mature trees over the terrace and a service drop crossing the yard, there is often nowhere to set a boom. That cost is real and it belongs in the estimate rather than in a change order.
There is legitimate tile work here and we do it. Repairs and partial re-lays on existing tile roofs, matching salvaged pieces, replacing failed underlayment beneath a sound tile field, and rebuilding flashings and valleys under tile. Keeping an original tile roof alive is a different and much better proposition than creating a new one. Salvage matters here because matching a discontinued profile is usually impossible and a mismatched repair is visible from the street forever.
If you are chasing the appearance rather than the material, say that out loud and we will cost the honest substitutes. A heavy designer laminated shingle in a barrel-shadow profile, or standing seam with a defined rib, gets a good part of the way there at a fraction of the structural argument. We would rather sell you that than a conversion your framing cannot carry. That is a better roof for the house and a far smaller argument.
Our licensed and 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.
What We Handle
Everything our tile roofing in Appleton covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of tile roofing work in Appleton, WI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Appleton services.
Materials, equipment and how we do tile roofing
The difference between tile roofing that lasts and tile roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with 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, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Appleton job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in the Fox Cities means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do tile roofing outside Appleton
Appleton Roof Pros covers Appleton and the surrounding communities of the Fox Cities. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Tile Roofing in Grand Chute, WI — Outagamie County, population 23,831
- Tile Roofing in Greenville, WI — Outagamie County, population 12,687
- Tile Roofing in Harrison, WI — Calumet County, population 12,418
- Tile Roofing in Shawano, WI — Shawano County, population 9,243
- Tile Roofing in New London, WI — Waupaca County, population 7,348
- Tile Roofing in Buchanan, WI — Outagamie County, population 6,857
Start on the Appleton Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
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 tile roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The tile roofing 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 tile roofing 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 (844) 511-2320 for a free tile roofing free estimate in Appleton, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.