Our Process
How a roofing job runs in Roxborough, step by step: the call, the written quote, the work and the final walkthrough — and the less expensive option named when there is one.
Four steps, start to finish
Layers counted and deck priced before the roof is opened, and a written quote before any work starts.
Call with the address
Tell us what you are seeing: a stain, a drip, shingles in the yard, a flat roof holding water.
Count what is under it
The top layer, then the edge where the layers show, then the attic or the underside of the roof where there is one.
A written quote with the unknowns priced
The work in plain language, the layer count, and a rate per deck board for whatever turns out soft, so the day the roof is open has no surprises in it.
Open it, close it, show it
Only as much stripped as can be dried in before the crew leaves.
The numbers, together
Estimated ranges for Philadelphia County homes. Your own written quote comes after we have seen it.
Roof Replacement - $7,000 - $11,000 (est.)
Roxborough twin or single; citywide $9,000 - $16,500.
Roof Repair - $300 - $3,000 (est.)
National range; about $900 average.
Roof Leak Repair - $300 - $3,000 (est.)
Inside the general repair range; tracing included.
Emergency Roof Repair - $300 - $3,000 for the repair (est.)
Temporary cover quoted on its own first.
Flat Roofing - $3,000 - $12,000 (est.)
1,000 sq ft flat roof, philadelphia; $4 - $12 per sq ft.
Storm Damage Roof Repair - $300 - $3,000 (est.)
National; about $9.20 - $11.62 per sq ft of damage.
What to settle before anyone strips a layer
The tear-off is the riskiest day a roof has. Most of what makes it safe is decided beforehand.
Ask how many layers are on it
A roofer can count them at an edge or with a small core on a flat roof.
Get the deck priced as a rate
Soft boards are only certain once the layers are off, so the quote should carry a price per board, agreed before anything comes off, not a number argued about with the roof open.
Ask how much comes off each day
Only as much as can be dried in before the crew leaves. Ask what happens if rain arrives early, and what the roof is closed with overnight.
Ask to see the bare deck
Before the new roof covers it: which boards were replaced, which were kept, which flashings were renewed. Photographs of each stage, yours to keep.
A tear-off waits for the weather. A leak does not
Worth knowing before you start calling around, because the two are booked very differently.
A replacement or a flat roof tear-off is booked against a forecast, because the roof is open while it happens. A dry run of days matters more than an early start date, and a good roofer will move your day rather than strip a roof with rain coming.
A leak, a limb on the roof or shingles in the yard is the opposite: covered the day you call where light and safety allow, and repaired properly once the weather gives a dry day to open the roof.
- Active leaks covered the same day where light and weather allow
- Tear-offs booked against the forecast, not the calendar
- Temporary cover quoted separately from the permanent repair
- Every opened section closed before the crew leaves
Want a figure on it?
The estimated range before we travel, and the figure in writing before any work starts.