Service area · Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is not one roofing market, it is about six. A 1912 foursquare in Herron-Morton, a 1958 hip-roof ranch in Warren Township and a 2019 build off 96th Street fail in different ways, on different timelines, for completely different reasons. Pricing any of them from a satellite image is guesswork dressed up as a quote.
We are an Indianapolis company and this is the city we work out of. That means no travel surcharge buried in the number, no crew dispatched from another state after a storm, and no one on your roof who has never seen what a Marion County February does to a twenty-year-old ridge line.
Free inspection, no obligation. We look at the roof before we price anything.
In the pre-war neighborhoods, the decking is the story. Irvington, Fountain Square, Bates-Hendricks, Herron-Morton, Broad Ripple and Meridian-Kessler are largely sheathed in one-by planking with gaps between the boards rather than in continuous sheathing. Gaps mean fasteners that land in air, which is why a roof that looks fine can start shedding tabs along one course. Some boards are sound at ninety years old and some crumble when a nail gun hits them, and the only way to know the mix is to have the old covering off. We say so in the proposal, in writing, with the price for board replacement agreed before it is ever needed.
The other pre-war signature is two roofs on one house. A steep 10/12 or 12/12 main roof runs down to a nearly flat porch or rear addition, and those are not the same roofing system. Shingles are not rated for the low-slope section and never were. When a bid covers the whole house at one per-square price, the low-slope portion is usually the part that leaks first and the part that was quietly ignored.
Move out to the mid-century townships and the problem inverts. Warren, Lawrence, Perry, Wayne and Pike are full of shallow 4/12 to 6/12 hips built with almost no intake ventilation, then insulated decades later in a way that packed the soffit bays solid. A ridge vent gets added on the next replacement, has nothing to draw from, and the attic keeps running hot. Shingles on those roofs age from underneath, which looks like premature wear and gets blamed on the shingle.
Several near-downtown neighborhoods sit inside locally designated historic districts, where exterior work can fall under review by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission. Whether that touches roofing at all depends on the district and the property. We check your address before material is ordered and tell you what we find, because discovering it after a delivery is an expensive way to learn it.
Last, the thing that gets left off Indianapolis bids more than anything else: the alley garage. Detached garages, carriage houses and workshops across the older neighborhoods are on their original covering, they are the first structure to leak, and they are almost never measured. We measure them and price them as a separate line so it is your decision, not an omission.
We work the whole county, not a convenient slice of it. These are the areas Indianapolis homeowners tend to name when they call, grouped roughly the way the city thinks about itself.
ZIP codes
46201 · 46202 · 46203 · 46204 · 46205 · 46208 · 46214 · 46217 · 46218 · 46219 · 46220 · 46221 · 46222 · 46224 · 46225 · 46226 · 46227 · 46228 · 46229 · 46231 · 46234 · 46235 · 46236 · 46237 · 46239 · 46240 · 46241 · 46250 · 46254 · 46256 · 46259 · 46260 · 46268 · 46278
Loccurbie Square · Chatham Arch · Old Northside · Herron-Morton Place · Fletcher Place · Cottage Home · Ransom Place · Woodruff Place · Fountain Square · Bates-Hendricks
Broad Ripple · Meridian-Kessler · Butler-Tarkington · Rocky Ripple · Crown Hill · Nora · Williams Creek · the Keystone and College corridors
Irvington · Emerson Heights · Little Flower · Devington · Warren Park · Lawrence · Cumberland · the 46236 Geist edge · Warren and Lawrence townships
Garfield Park · University Heights · Southport · Wanamaker · Franklin Township · Perry Township · the Madison Avenue and US 31 corridors
Haughville · Riverside · Ben Davis · Eagle Creek · Traders Point · Wayne Township · Pike Township · the 38th Street and Lafayette Road corridors
Indianapolis is where we are based, and we do not keep separate neighborhood branches. One phone number, one crew list, one company answering for the work, whether the roof is in Broad Ripple or Franklin Township.
Same four services everywhere we work, and the same written process behind them. What changes is what each one runs into on a Indianapolis roof.
A tear-off over one-by plank decking needs a different fastening plan than a gun run across OSB, and layer count on an older Indianapolis house is frequently two or three rather than the one the last contractor claimed. Both get established before the number is written, not after the dumpster arrives.
Roof replacement →Most Indianapolis repair calls we take turn out to be flashing, boot or valley failures rather than shingle failures, and on the older housing stock they are often at the junction between the main roof and a later addition. We find the actual entry point rather than smearing sealant at the stain.
Roof repair →Free, and it is a real inspection: every slope walked or documented, flashing at walls and chimneys, boots, valleys, ventilation, edges, and the underside of the decking wherever the attic can be reached. You get the photographs whether or not the answer is a new roof.
What an inspection covers →Central Indiana takes its hail and straight-line wind mostly between March and June, and Marion County catches its share. We document what a storm actually did, in photographs, and give you a written scope you can hand to an adjuster. We do not knock doors after a storm.
Where roofs actually fail →Building new in Indianapolis, or putting a roof on an addition or a detached garage? That is new roof installation, and it works from your plans rather than from a tear-off.
That is set by the City of Indianapolis and Marion County, and it depends on what the work involves. A like-for-like shingle replacement, structural repair to the decking, and a change of roof covering are not treated the same way. We confirm what your specific address requires with the permitting authority before the job is scheduled and pull whatever is needed. If a contractor tells you that no roof in Marion County ever needs a permit, treat that as information about the contractor.
It is a condition, not a problem, and it is normal for anything built in Indianapolis before roughly 1950. Boards shrink and leave gaps, so fastener placement matters more, and a share of the boards will be too soft to hold a nail once the old covering is off. What matters is that the proposal states the per-board price up front and that you approve any replacement in writing before it happens, with photographs of the boards in question.
Most replacements we do land between 400 and 500 dollars per square, a square being 100 square feet of roof surface, so a 24 square roof generally works out somewhere around 9,600 to 12,000 dollars. Pitch, layer count, decking condition, flashing and chimney work, ventilation corrections and the shingle line all move it. Your exact number is measured at the free inspection and written into the proposal before you decide anything. Our budgeting guide walks through the whole calculation.
It might. Several near-downtown Indianapolis neighborhoods are locally designated districts where exterior changes can fall under review by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, and whether roofing is included depends on the district and the property. We check the address, tell you what applies, and factor any review time into the schedule rather than discovering it the week material is due.
Yes, all nine townships, plus the excluded cities and towns inside the county line. We confirm exact-address eligibility and permit requirements when you schedule, which takes a minute and saves everyone a wasted trip.
Our territory runs well past the ten communities with pages of their own. See the full service area, or send an address and we will confirm it.
Tell us the address and roughly when the house was built, and we will bring the right ladder for it. The inspection is free, the findings come with photographs, and the price is written down before anything comes off your roof.
No cost, no obligation, and no pressure at the door. Mon–Fri 8am–10pm · Sat–Sun 12pm–10pm.