Metairie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Old Jefferson, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 7,339. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Old Jefferson homes and businesses.
Old Jefferson property owners near Shrewsbury Road, the Jefferson Playground count on Metairie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Old Jefferson. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Metairie to every job in Old Jefferson, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-8846 for a free roofing estimate in Old Jefferson, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Old Jefferson, LA
Two cautions before any number. The Census calls this place Jefferson CDP rather than Old Jefferson, and there is a separate Old Jefferson CDP up near Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish. Statistics quoted for the wrong one would be off by thirty years of building history, so everything below describes the Jefferson Parish community around Shrewsbury Road. It is the oldest housing stock on this entire site.
Median year built is 1958. Twenty-eight percent of the units date from the 1950s, nineteen percent from the 1940s and nine percent from before 1940, so well over half the roofs here sit on frames built before 1960. That age is the whole job. One-by board decking is common, boards shrink and cup with sixty years of humidity, and a fastener driven into a gap between two boards holds nothing at all.
On a deck like that we photograph the attic side between consecutive trusses, because a nail spacing shot from above will not show you what is actually gripping. Old Jefferson is unincorporated, so the parish permit governs at fifty dollars flat, the work is judged against the 2021 International Residential Code, and the file goes to the east bank office on Elmwood Park Boulevard a few minutes away.
There is no municipal registration layered on top of the state license here, and no local trade card to buy, which is not true of every jurisdiction we work in. Vacancy runs at sixteen percent, twice the rate in Metairie, which means a fair number of these roofs have gone several years without anyone inside to notice a stain spreading across a ceiling.
Deferred leaks are what turn a re-nail into a sheathing replacement. On a house this old the flashing is usually older than the shingles, and a reroof that reuses step flashing on a 1950s chimney is a leak with a delivery date.
The local storm record is real but modest. On 7 February 2017 a tornado touched down near Elmwood on Saint George Avenue and lifted near Jefferson Heights around Sizeler and Lauricella, and on 27 April 2015 gusts near ninety-two miles an hour blew railcar containers off a train on the Huey P.
Long approach two miles west. The counsel here that would be wrong in Metairie: assume board decking until a photograph proves otherwise, and budget for a plywood overlay rather than treating it as a change order discovered on day two. On a 1955 house it is more likely than not, and pretending otherwise only moves the argument later.
About Old Jefferson, LA — and why local matters here
Old Jefferson sits in Jefferson Parish with a population of roughly 7,339, close enough to Metairie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Shrewsbury Road, the Jefferson Playground.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Old Jefferson 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 Old Jefferson
Call (877) 879-8846 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Old Jefferson, 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 New Orleans, LA and the rest of Jefferson Parish. Everything starts at the Metairie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Old Jefferson, LA
Metairie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Old Jefferson that we do in Metairie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- 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.
- 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.
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Popular services in Old Jefferson: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve New Orleans, LA and Jefferson Parish.