Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Marrero, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 32,382. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Marrero homes and businesses.
Marrero property owners near the Barataria Boulevard corridor, the Fourth Street corridor count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Marrero. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in Marrero, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in Marrero, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Marrero, LA
The West Bank permit counter is physically in Marrero. Jefferson Parish runs two building permit offices, and the one at 1855 Ames Boulevard, Suite A serves this side of the river while the east bank files at 1221 Elmwood Park Boulevard. If you live here you are closer to the office that will approve your roof than anyone in Metairie is.
Marrero is unincorporated, so the parish re-roofing permit governs: required before replacing fifty percent or more of the covering on a one or two family dwelling, fifty dollars flat, filed through MyGovernmentOnline with no construction plans attached, and judged against the 2021 International Residential Code. When the photographs are accepted the parish issues a certificate of completeness, which is the document that outlives whichever contractor you used.
The housing here is older than the West Bank average and cheaper than anything else we cover. Median year built is 1972, a quarter of the houses date from the 1970s and another fifth from the 1960s, and the median value in the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey is about 170,000 dollars, the lowest of the twenty-five places we serve.
That price level changes the conversation rather than the workmanship. On a house at this value the deck re-nailing and the new drip edge are the lines that pay, and a premium shingle upgrade usually is not. We say which is which before you ask, and we put the two versions side by side on the same page.
The parish specification is where Marrero jobs get won or lost. Fifteen-pound felt is not allowed at all: underlayment has to meet ASTM D226 Type II or D4869 Type III or IV, applied in two layers off a nineteen-inch starter course, fastened on a twelve-inch grid with ring-shank or deformed-shank nails carrying inch-wide caps. The photographs have to show that pattern before anything covers it.
On 14 December 2022 an EF2 tornado touched down just west of Luther Drive, tore roofs northeast past Ames Boulevard and August Avenue, and pushed bleachers off their foundation at Archbishop Shaw before crossing the river. A weaker one hit Belle Terre Playground on 2 May 2025 with winds around eighty miles an hour, flipping sheds and lifting shingles on Adam Drive.
So the thing we would tell a Marrero owner and not a Metairie one: your street has a documented history of tornado-scale roof loss, not only tropical wind, and the two damage patterns read differently on a bare deck. Uplift from a tornado tends to concentrate along one plane. We photograph for both, because the claim you file later depends on which one it was.
Getting a free estimate in Marrero
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Marrero, 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 LaPlace, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Marrero, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Marrero that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Skylights — A skylight is a hole in the part of the house that is supposed to have no holes, so it is worth being deliberate about. In Metairie there is a second reason for care: on a documented roof, a skylight is an accessory component with paperwork attached.
- Fascia & Soffit — The eave is where a Metairie roof tells the truth. It is also the first thing a photograph of the roof edge shows, which means it is hard to hide and easy to check on somebody else's work.
- 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.
See the full list of Metairie services, or call (877) 879-8846.
About Marrero, LA — and why local matters here
Marrero sits in Jefferson Parish with a population of roughly 32,382, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Barataria Boulevard corridor, the Fourth Street corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Marrero 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 Marrero: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve LaPlace, LA and Jefferson Parish.