Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Kenner, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 66,448. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Kenner homes and businesses.
Kenner property owners near the Williams Boulevard retail spine, Laketown on the Kenner lakefront count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Kenner. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in Kenner, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in Kenner, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Kenner, LA
Kenner waived its permit fees for Hurricane Francine damage under Council Resolution B-17411 and said in the same breath that residents are still required to obtain a permit for any repair work on their homes. That is the sentence worth remembering, because a waived fee reads to a lot of people as no paperwork, and it is not.
Kenner is incorporated, so its Inspection and Code Enforcement Department issues, from 1926 18th Street rather than from any parish counter. Forms are emailed or dropped off there, and the city publishes its own building permit application. Tradesman licenses issued by the city also require a current Jefferson Parish or state license behind them, so the two systems interlock rather than substitute for each other.
The city adopts the 2021 International Building, Residential, Existing Building, Mechanical, Plumbing and Fuel Gas codes, the 2021 energy code and the 2020 National Electrical Code, each with the state amendments layered on. That is the same code year Jefferson Parish applies, which is why the technical answer is usually identical and the filing answer never is.
The housing is a single generation. Just over a third of the units date from the 1970s, the median year built is 1978, and about sixty-three percent of the roughly 27,900 homes are owner-occupied. No place on this site has been hit by more confirmed tornadoes.
Eleven separate tracks pass within six miles of the town center, including an EF1 on 24 April 2013 that ran south along West Loyola Drive from Joe Yenni Boulevard causing minor to moderate roof damage to about a dozen homes, and an EF0 on 18 May 2021 that took the roof off a large building near the airport. Hail is the other headline.
On 15 April 2015 a photograph of baseball-sized hail was relayed from Kenner, measured at two and three quarter inches. That is the largest stone in the local record anywhere across our service area. So the Kenner conversation is about impact as much as uplift. Hail bruising and tornado uplift leave different signatures on a mat and on a deck, and an adjuster will treat them as different perils.
We photograph the bruise pattern and the fastener pattern separately, because on this ground you can genuinely have both in one year. A bruise does not leak on the day it happens. It shortens the life of the mat, which is why the photograph taken during the tear-off matters more here than the one taken from the driveway.
Getting a free estimate in Kenner
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Kenner, 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 Marrero, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Kenner, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Kenner that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- 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.
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Half the low-slope work in Metairie is on something that was not part of the original house. A carport enclosed in 1974, a Florida room off the back, a den added over a slab.
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — Consider this our argument against a line on our own invoice. Roof coatings are sold hard in south Louisiana and they are the wrong answer far more often than they are the right one.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation on this coast is a rain problem before it is an airflow problem. That single reordering changes which vents we will install on your house, and it is why we sometimes replace a vent that is working perfectly well by every other measure.
See the full list of Metairie services, or call (877) 879-8846.
About Kenner, LA — and why local matters here
Kenner sits in Jefferson Parish with a population of roughly 66,448, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Williams Boulevard retail spine, Laketown on the Kenner lakefront.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Kenner 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.
Popular services in Kenner: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Marrero, LA and Jefferson Parish.