Gastonia Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair & Deck Work
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections, and a written price for deck repair before the first shingle comes off.
- Licensed and insured, with carrier-issued certificates on request
- Decking priced as its own line before the tear-off starts
- Permits pulled and inspections scheduled on every replacement
- Written workmanship warranty with the exclusions printed on it
Our Roofing Services in Gastonia, NC
Roof Replacement
Replacing a roof here is a decking decision before it is a shingle decision. On the mill houses that make up much of the older stock, the boards under the felt were milled in 1902 or the early 1920s, and they set the price.
Roof Leak Repair
A leak on an old Gastonia house is almost never in the open field of the roof. It is at a penetration, a transition, or a chimney, and on the mill-house plans those three things sit in predictable places.
Storm Damage Restoration
Piedmont storms here are summer outflow, remnant tropical systems tracking up from the coast, and the occasional line of straight-line wind. On the mill blocks, one of those hits a whole street of identical roofs at once.
Hail Damage Roofing
This is the page where we talk most people out of something. Gastonia sits well east of the real hail alley, and on an older roof here most of what gets called hail damage is simply age, sun and granule loss.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind takes the edge of a roof first, and mill-house roofs have almost no edge to work with. Shallow overhangs, no original drip edge, and rake boards fastened into end grain that has been wet and dry for a century.
Roof Inspections
An inspection on a cohort-built house is worth more than one on a custom house, because the answer generalizes. If we know the plan and the campaign that built it, we know most of what is under your shingles before we get on the ladder.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Here is an opinion most roofing companies will not put in writing: on a small mill house, buy the cheaper shingle and spend the difference underneath it. The premium line will not outlive the deck it is nailed to.
Metal Roofing
Metal belongs on these houses, and it was on plenty of them originally. The question is which metal, and the answer here is usually the opposite of what a salesperson will tell you.
Tile Roofing
We will not put tile on a mill house, and we would rather say that here than after you have paid for a quote. The framing cannot take it and no amount of enthusiasm changes the arithmetic.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Most low-slope roofing we do here happens on houses, not on commercial buildings, and it sits at the back: a kitchen added in 1955, a bathroom added in 1962, a porch enclosed sometime after that, each one a shallow shed tied into the original roof. Nearly all of them are shingled, and nearly all of them should not be.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings are a budget-sequencing tool, not a roof. Used right, they buy you time on one plane while you save for the plane that actually needs replacing.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the detail that quietly shortens shingle life in this city, and on the older houses it is not a matter of adding a ridge vent. It is a matter of finding intake air where the original plan never provided any.
Skylights
Small houses are dark houses, and the mill plans are small by design: four to six rooms, deep-set windows, and a hallway with no exterior wall. A skylight changes those rooms more than it changes a big open house.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters fall off these houses for a reason that has nothing to do with the gutter. On several of the older plans there is no continuous fascia board to hang one from, so the hangers went into the rafter tails, or into a nailer somebody added later.
Fascia & Soffit
The aluminum wrap on your eaves is usually hiding something. Coil stock over rotted wood was the standard fix for thirty years, and on the older streets it is what we find on the majority of houses we open up.
Chimney Flashing
If we had to name one thing that leaks on the older Gastonia houses more than anything else, it is the chimney. Almost every one of these plans was built around a central brick flue, and almost none of them still use it.
Emergency Tarping
On a small roof, a tarp is not a stopgap you should feel bad about. Fourteen squares can be fully covered in an afternoon, which means a properly tarped mill house is genuinely dry, not merely less wet.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofing in this city has an unusual shape, because a lot of the commercial buildings are the mills themselves. Enormous low-slope decks on brick structures from the first quarter of the twentieth century, several of them now lofts, studios and offices.
Insurance Claim Help
Insurance is where owning an old house gets expensive in ways nobody warns you about. On a hundred-year-old roof the fight is rarely about whether the storm happened.
Gastonia Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Gastonia, North Carolina, handling roof replacement, leak repair, storm and hail damage, metal panel roofs, low-slope membrane, gutters, ventilation and chimney flashing. A great deal of what we work on is small, old, and framed in true-dimension lumber, and we price it that way.
That matters more here than in most markets. Much of the older housing in this city went up as company-built mill housing in short building campaigns, so the roofs arrive in cohorts: the same rafter size, the same rough-sawn board decking, the same shallow eave with nowhere to put a soffit vent, and the same abandoned brick stove flue sitting in the middle of the ridge.
So we open a plane and look before the number is final. Board width and gap, layer count, rafter dimension and flue condition decide the job, and not one of them is visible from the driveway. You get a per-board rate for decking, a separate re-deck figure, and a straight answer when a repair is the better buy this year.
What Gastonia Customers Say
Two other companies quoted off a photo. These folks got up there, pulled back a section and showed me the boards on their phone before they gave me a number. The deck price was a separate line and it did not move once.
Our chimney had been caulked three times by three different people. They cut the counterflashing into the mortar joint and built a cricket behind it. First heavy rain in two years with no bucket in the hallway.
Honestly expected to be told I needed a new roof. Instead I got told six to eight years left and a few hundred dollars of flashing work. They lost a big job and gained a customer for whenever it does give out.
They talked me out of filing a hail claim and explained exactly why what I was seeing was age. Then they came back and did the addition roof in metal for less than the shingle quote I had.
Why Gastonia Chooses Gastonia Roof Pros
- ✓We date your roof by its building campaign, not by a guess. Layer count, board width, rafter dimension and flue condition, because on cohort-built housing those four readings predict the job.
- ✓A plane comes open before the price is final. On a board deck the fastener gaps and the soft board ends are the entire risk, and photographing them beats absorbing them later as a change order.
- ✓Decking is a separate line item with a per-board and a per-sheet rate written down, so a re-deck is a number you agreed to rather than a surprise delivered from the ladder.
- ✓We refuse work that the framing cannot carry. Tile on true-dimension rafters, coatings over shingles, and impact-rated upgrades on a roof already carrying two layers all get a no and a reason.
- ✓Ventilation is solved at the roof edge, because these eaves have no soffit to vent. Slotted eave intake and sealed ceiling penetrations, not a ridge vent pulling air out of your house.
- ✓We tell you when the honest answer is a repair and a re-inspection date, and we put the remaining service life in writing as a range with the reasoning attached.
About Gastonia Roof Pros in Gastonia, NC
Gastonia Roof Pros works Gastonia and the towns around it: Belmont, Mount Holly, Cramerton, McAdenville, Ranlo, Lowell, Dallas, Bessemer City, Cherryville, Kings Mountain, Shelby and Lincolnton. Most of what we touch is residential, and a lot of it is the small company-built housing that this county was largely constructed out of.
We are not sentimental about those houses, but we do respect them. They were built quickly, to a price, for people who worked hard, and a great many of them are still standing straight after a hundred and twenty years, which is more than can be said for a lot of what went up in the 1990s. They deserve to be quoted honestly rather than treated as teardowns with shingles on top.
Do not hire us if you want the cheapest number on the street. We price the deck, we pull permits, we put metal where sealant would be faster, and that costs more than a crew that goes over the top of two layers and leaves the county. And if your roof has years left in it, we will tell you so and lose the job, which is the whole reason people call us back later.
How It Works
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We Date the Roof First
Layer count read at the rake, shingle profile and exposure, board width and gap, rafter dimension and spacing, and the condition of the flue. On a cohort-built house those five things tell us most of what the job is before we quote it.
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A Plane Comes Open
On any roof we expect to replace, we lift a small area and photograph the decking rather than guessing at it. It takes twenty minutes and it is the difference between a fixed price and a number that grows once the crew is on site.
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Two Numbers, Not One
You get the roof price and the deck price separately, with a per-board rate for replacement and a per-sheet rate for plywood overlay. If a repair is the better buy this year, that number is on the same page so you can compare them.
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Permit, Work, Written Close-Out
We pull the permit, tear off to the boards, and photograph the deck, the flashings and the ventilation before they are covered. At the end you get the photographs, the warranty with its exclusions, and anything left undone listed on the invoice.
Commercial Roofing in Gastonia and Across Gaston County
A good share of Gastonia's commercial roof area sits on the old textile mills themselves, some now converted to lofts and offices, alongside the retail along Franklin Boulevard, churches, small manufacturing and the distribution buildings that came with the county's position on Interstate 85. We survey and drawing-map a roof before recommending anything, take core samples where the assembly is unknown, and phase large mill roofs by section across budget years rather than pricing the whole acre at once.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO and EPDM single-ply over a half-inch cover board
- ✓Two-ply SBS modified bitumen, cold-applied and self-adhered
- ✓Long-span mill decks, monitor and sawtooth sections with ridge glazing
- ✓Parapet coping, through-wall counterflashing and masonry coordination
- ✓Internal drains, scuppers and overflow provision on divided buildings
- ✓Standing seam and structural metal panel on warehouse and light industrial
- ✓Core sampling and a section-by-section repair or replace recommendation
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance agreements with photographic documentation
Service Areas
Gastonia Roof Pros serves Gastonia, NC and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across Gaston County and the western Charlotte metro
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a licensed contractor for a roof in Gastonia?
North Carolina requires a general contractor license for construction work costing $40,000 or more, so plenty of residential roofs fall under the threshold and a license is not legally required for them. That does not mean you should skip it.
Ask for the license number, the liability certificate and the workers' compensation certificate, and ask that the certificates come from the insurer rather than from the contractor's printer. A tear-off and re-roof also needs a building permit and an inspection, and we pull ours.
My house is a 1920s mill house. Does it need new decking?
Sometimes, and nobody can tell you from the driveway. These roofs are sheathed in rough-sawn 1x6 or 1x8 boards laid with gaps, which is a perfectly sound deck when the wood is sound, and modern shingles will go over it.
The two things that force a change are wide gaps, which leave fasteners holding nothing, and rot at the board ends over the eave. The usual answer is a three-eighths plywood overlay across the whole roof rather than a full replacement of the boards.
How many layers of shingles can I have in North Carolina?
Two on a dwelling. If you already have two, the next roof is a full tear-off, and there is no way around that. It is worth knowing before you get quotes, because a tear-off adds labor, dumpster weight and disposal cost, and a quote that assumes a single-layer overlay will be several thousand dollars lower than one that is telling you the truth. We read the layer count at the rake edge on the first visit.
Why is my quote so different from my neighbor's when the houses are identical?
Because the houses are identical and the last eighty years were not. Two mill houses built to the same plan in the same year can be at one layer and two, sound boards and soft boards, an intact flue and a flue that was cut off and shingled over badly in 1974. The framing is the same, the accumulated repairs are not, and the accumulated repairs are most of the price difference.
Is my old brick chimney the leak?
More often than anything else on these houses. Almost every mill-house plan had a central flue for a stove, and most of those flues are now unused, unmaintained, and flashed with caulk instead of metal. Before you spend money on a roof, have somebody check the step flashing, the counterflashing and whether there is a cricket behind the stack. If the flue is genuinely abandoned, taking it down below the roofline is often the cheapest permanent fix.
Should I file a hail claim?
Usually not, in this part of North Carolina. Most of what looks like hail damage on an older roof here is granule loss from twenty-odd years of sun. Real hail leaves round bruises with a soft mat, a random pattern across every slope, and matching hits on gutters, vents and the flue collar.
A denied claim goes on your loss history and gets your old roof looked at closely by your carrier, which is not something you want for free. We will come out and tell you which one you have.