Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Gretna, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 17,814. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Gretna homes and businesses.
Gretna property owners near Mel Ott Park, the Gretna ferry landing count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Gretna. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in Gretna, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in Gretna, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Gretna, LA
Gretna's own code says you do not need a permit for this. Section 10-7 is headed certain permits waived, and the first item on the list is residential roof resurfacing work. That ordinance dates to 1999, and the Building Department's current permit page names neither roofing nor an exemption for it.
We will not resolve that for you in a sentence, because the city has not resolved it either. Act 239 of the 2025 session directs every municipality that issues construction permits to permit and inspect residential reroofing, which points the other way from a 1999 waiver. Two official sources disagree. Call the Building Department at 740 Second Street and get the answer for your address.
What is unambiguous is the licensing. Section 10-16 requires a residential home improvement contractor license from both the Parish of Jefferson and the City of Gretna for work of seven thousand five hundred dollars or more on a one or two family structure, with an exemption for holders of a valid state residential or building contractor license on presentation of it.
Where a permit is required, the fee formula is thirty dollars for the first thousand of value plus five dollars for each additional thousand, and it is nonrefundable. The department takes most of its permitting through the MGO Connect portal.
Sixteen percent of Gretna was built before 1940, a share nothing else on the West Bank comes near. Add a fifth of the housing from the 1960s and a median build year of 1966, and you have the oldest incorporated housing stock we work in outside of New Orleans itself.
Old stock means genuine masonry chimneys, steeper pitches and slate-era geometry on some streets, so counterflashing cut into a mortar joint rather than caulked to the brick face is routine work rather than an upgrade. Anything visible from the public right-of-way in the historic district also needs a certificate of appropriateness before the permit.
The 29 March 2011 squall line concentrated its damage here: nearly 1.8 miles of hail and wind damage along Manhattan Boulevard, over a mile of power line snapped or pushed over, and an awning torn down at a shopping center. On a house with real brick and a real chimney the flashing is the roof, and we price the chimney and parapet detail as their own line.
Roofing work we do in Gretna, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Gretna that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail happens here, and it is not what ends roofs in this parish. Jefferson Parish sees it in spring squall lines rather than in the sustained hail alleys of Texas and Oklahoma, and that matters because it changes whether an impact-rated shingle is worth paying for.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Here is the argument this whole company is built on, stated plainly. A wind rating is a property of a product.
- Roof Inspections — Three different things get called a roof inspection around here, and confusing them costs people money. It is worth separating them before you pay for any of them, because two of the three are not inspections at all in the ordinary sense.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Almost every roof in Metairie is asphalt shingle, and on the way we work the shingle is the least consequential decision on the job. No roofer enjoys saying it, but the claim holds up the moment you look at where roofs in this parish actually let go.
- Metal Roofing — Metal is a good roof for a Metairie house and a harder one to document. Both halves of that sentence are true, and the second half is the one nobody mentions until the paperwork stage, so we will put it up front instead.
- Tile Roofing — There is very little tile in Metairie and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Where it exists it is usually on a nineteen-twenties or thirties house near the older ridge streets, or on a stucco addition somebody built to look Mediterranean in the eighties.
See the full list of Metairie services, or call (877) 879-8846.
About Gretna, LA — and why local matters here
Gretna sits in Jefferson Parish with a population of roughly 17,814, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Mel Ott Park, the Gretna ferry landing.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Gretna 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 Gretna
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Gretna, 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 Luling, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Gretna: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Luling, LA and Jefferson Parish.