About Appleton Roof Pros: Licensed Roofing Pros in WI
Appleton Roof Pros works Appleton, Grand Chute, Greenville, Harrison, Combined Locks, Buchanan, Freedom and the surrounding Outagamie, Calumet, Waupaca and Shawano county communities. Nothing about the basic craft is exotic: strip the covering, repair what the covering was hiding, flash every joint in metal, fasten to the rating and leave the site clean.
The part that is local is the shape of the houses. Appleton grew up around the mills on the Fox River, and the blocks nearest downtown are full of nineteenth and early twentieth century houses with a steep main block and something shallow hung off it. The City Park Historic District alone holds 141 contributing properties built between 1867 and 1949. Every one of those addresses is at least two roofing problems, and almost nobody prices them that way.
Do not hire us if you want the porch shingled to match at a pitch that will not hold shingles, because we will refuse. Do not hire us if you want a coating brushed over a membrane we have probed and found wet. And if the field on your main roof has eight good years left, we would rather fix the ell, write down what we saw and come back later than sell you the whole address this season.
If you have a roofing project in Appleton, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Appleton service we handle, check whether we cover Grand Chute, WI and the rest of the Fox Cities, or go back to the Appleton Roof Pros homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (844) 511-2320.
Credentials
- License: Appleton's permit forms carry a numbered box for a Dwelling Contractor certification and a second box for the Dwelling Contractor Qualifier certification held by a named individual. Those two Department of Safety and Professional Services credentials, and not any roofing trade license, are what the state actually requires of whoever pulls the permit. Both of our numbers are printed on your estimate.
- Insurance: Commercial general liability and worker's compensation in force. Ask and the agent issues the certificate with your street address typed into the description of operations, which is the only version worth having.
- Association: National Roofing Contractors Association member. Low-slope proposals also name the manufacturer application instructions the material warranty is written against, because on a porch that document is the one that decides coverage.
- Warranty: a written workmanship warranty that lists the main field, the porch, the ell and any membrane section as separate lines with a separate term on each
How Appleton Roof Pros works
How a job with Appleton Roof Pros runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. a written workmanship warranty that lists the main field, the porch, the ell and any membrane section as separate lines with a separate term on each backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a roofing job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Appleton.
Where Appleton Roof Pros works and who we work with
Appleton, WI first, then the surrounding communities of the Fox Cities: Grand Chute, Greenville, Harrison, Shawano, New London, Buchanan, Waupaca, Freedom and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across the Fox Cities. Start with the Appleton services, the Appleton Roof Pros homepage, or just call (844) 511-2320.
Why Appleton Chooses Appleton Roof Pros
- ✓We put a level on every roof section and write the pitch on the estimate, because the number below 2:12 is what decides whether a shingle is even permitted up there.
- ✓The front porch, the kitchen ell and the back stoop get their own line, their own material and their own price. One figure for the whole address hides the part that is actually failing.
- ✓Where a shallow roof meets a wall we lift a course of siding and put the flashing behind it. Metal slipped under the existing course and caulked along the top edge is the most common defect we find on the pre-1940 blocks.
- ✓We tell owners the main field has years left in it. Quite often the appendage needs doing now and the field does not, and writing that down costs us the bigger sale on purpose.
- ✓No shingles below 2:12, no roll roofing on a porch you intend to keep, and no clay or concrete tile on framing that no engineer has looked at.
- ✓Appleton publishes a siding permit application and no roofing one. Replacing a covering is not the trigger; rebuilding the structure underneath is, and we say which one you have before a crew is booked.
What Appleton Customers Say
I had three estimates. Only theirs said a word about the back kitchen wing. Turned out that was the roof leaking into my dining room. They did that section, told me the main roof could wait, and put the estimate for it in the folder for later.
They pulled two rows of siding above the porch and showed me the flashing just tucked under and caulked. Twenty years of that. New metal went in behind the siding properly and the ceiling stain has not come back through two springs.
I asked for the whole roof in standing seam. They talked me down to metal on the porch and the shed dormer with shingles everywhere else, which saved a serious amount of money and honestly looks better. Not many contractors argue themselves out of work.
The report had a numbered diagram with the pitch written on every plane, which my adjuster actually used. The membrane over the sunroom had been left off the original scope entirely and it went back on because of that diagram.
Service Areas
Appleton Roof Pros serves Appleton, WI and surrounding communities including: