Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in New Orleans, LA — Orleans Parish, population 383,997. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves New Orleans homes and businesses.
New Orleans property owners near the Seventeenth Street Canal boundary, Lakeview's post-levee rebuild blocks count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in New Orleans. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in New Orleans, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in New Orleans, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans wants sixteen photographs. Ordinance 30,235 MCS created a separate residential re-roofing permit here, and the city asks for four wide-angle geotagged shots from the front, left, right and rear at each of four stages: tear-off, underlayment, drip edge and flashing, and the finished shingles or panels.
That is four times the documentation Jefferson Parish asks for on the same job, and it is worth knowing before anyone tells you the parish process is unusually demanding. The trigger is the same fifty percent of the roof covering, and minor work under that threshold is exempt unless something else pulls it into permitting.
The base fee is sixty dollars, with thirty more inside a Historic District Landmarks Commission or Vieux Carre Commission area, and those addresses need extra review before the permit issues. The application goes through the One Stop App and will not submit without a signed estimate or contract carrying both the homeowner's and the contractor's signature.
Single and two-family homes only. Three or more units, or anything with a business use, cannot use this permit at all and has to go through a structural or non-structural renovation permit instead. The office is Safety and Permits at 1340 Poydras Street, Suite 800, and the city states two to four days for issuance. There is no city roofing license on top of the state one; New Orleans separately licenses only electrical and mechanical contractors.
Almost a third of the housing predates 1940, a larger pre-war share than anywhere else we work, the median year built is 1960 across roughly 195,000 units, and one dwelling in five sits vacant. Owner occupancy is fifty-one percent, so about half these roofs are a landlord's decision.
The 7 February 2017 tornado is the defining local event. It touched down just east of the Industrial Canal, strengthened into a multi-vortex EF3 through the Evangeline Oaks area, snapped power poles and stripped roofing from an apartment complex over a ten-mile track up to six hundred yards wide. Ping-pong hail fell in New Orleans East minutes later.
On a pre-war house the honest first question is what the deck is made of and whether it will hold a modern fastener at all. Slate lath, skip sheathing and shrunken one-by boards all turn up here, and none of them re-nail the way plywood does. That answer belongs in the tear-off photograph, which the city is going to look at.
About New Orleans, LA — and why local matters here
New Orleans sits in Orleans Parish with a population of roughly 383,997, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Seventeenth Street Canal boundary, Lakeview's post-levee rebuild blocks.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. New Orleans properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Orleans 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 New Orleans
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in New Orleans, 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 Kenner, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in New Orleans, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in New Orleans that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- 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.
- 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.
See the full list of Metairie services, or call (877) 879-8846.
Popular services in New Orleans: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Kenner, LA and Jefferson Parish.