Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Estelle, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 17,952. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Estelle homes and businesses.
Estelle property owners near the Lapalco Boulevard corridor, Ames Boulevard count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Estelle. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in Estelle, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in Estelle, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Estelle, LA
Ninety percent of Estelle households own their home, and ninety-five percent of the housing is single-family detached. Both figures are the highest of the twenty-five places this site covers, and neither is close. It is the most uniformly owner-occupied ground on the West Bank, and vacancy runs at five percent against eight in Metairie.
That uniformity is the practical fact. When a street of near-identical houses reaches roof age together, one tear-off tells you what the next eight will find, and quoting gets faster and more accurate than it can be in a mixed neighborhood. It also means a whole block can be sold the same unnecessary upgrade at once.
Estelle is newer than most of the West Bank, with a median year built of 1982 and twenty-eight percent of the stock from the 1970s. That generally means plywood sheathing rather than one-by board decking, which keeps the eight-penny ring-shank re-nailing straightforward and the sealed deck inexpensive to add while the deck is open.
The permit is the parish one, since Estelle is unincorporated: fifty dollars, required before you replace half or more of the covering, filed to the office on Ames Boulevard a few minutes north of here rather than to any city hall. It is a five-minute drive from most addresses in Estelle, which is not something a homeowner on the north shore can say about their own permit office.
On 12 May 2017 an EF0 tornado ripped two carports off homes on Mount Revarb Drive here, blew out rear car windows and downed power lines, with maximum winds put at sixty-five to seventy miles an hour and a path only twenty to thirty yards wide.
That is the local record in a sentence: not catastrophic, but real, and filed under the name Estelle. Hail is the other exposure and it is seasonal rather than tropical. On 24 February 2013 stones of about two and a half inches were photographed nearby in Marrero, and golf-ball sized hail was reported near LaPalco Boulevard the same evening by a fire station crew.
What we would tell an Estelle owner and nobody in Metairie: your carport or patio cover is probably the weakest attachment on the property, and it is precisely what the 2017 tornado took. It is also the piece most bidders leave out of the quote entirely, then add back as a change order once the crew is already on site.
About Estelle, LA — and why local matters here
Estelle sits in Jefferson Parish with a population of roughly 17,952, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Lapalco Boulevard corridor, Ames Boulevard.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Estelle properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Jefferson Parish, 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 Estelle
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Estelle, 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 Gretna, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Estelle, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Estelle that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Chimney Flashing — Chimneys leak more often than roofs do, and in Metairie a large share of what people call a chimney is not masonry at all. On postwar and seventies houses it is a framed chase clad in siding with a sheet metal pan on top, and it fails differently.
- Commercial Roofing — Commercial work in this parish means the Veterans Memorial Boulevard retail strips, the Elmwood industrial corridor, medical offices along the hospital campuses, and a great many small multi-tenant buildings owned by people who live nearby. Most of it is low-slope, and most of it is older than its owner believes.
- Insurance Claim Help — Start with the fact that reframes this whole subject. In Louisiana the durable money on a roof is not the claim.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement in unincorporated Metairie is decided before the first shingle comes off. Louisiana now requires the work to be permitted and inspected, and Jefferson Parish meets the inspection half with photographs rather than an inspector.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most of what we are called out for in Metairie is small, and it should stay small. A split pipe boot, a backed-out nail, an open valley lap, a sidewall with no kickout.
- Storm Damage Restoration — After a system moves through, the first job is not repair. It is preserving the state of the roof long enough for somebody other than us to see it.
See the full list of Metairie services, or call (877) 879-8846.
Popular services in Estelle: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Gretna, LA and Jefferson Parish.