Racine Residential Roof Installation — Residential & Commercial

Racine Roof Pros provides professional residential roof installation in Racine, WI for residential and commercial properties across the Racine and Kenosha lakeshore. Wisconsin does not use the international residential code on houses. New one- and two-family work here is built to the state's own Uniform Dwelling Code, and on a roof the differences between the two are not cosmetic ones.

Ice dam protection is the clearest example. The state code requires it on shingled or shake roofs over a heated area where the slope is 4 in 12 or less, extending at least 30 inches up the slope from the roof edge and at least 12 inches up-slope beyond the inner face of the exterior wall.

Sheet metal or a membrane listed to the ASTM standard will both satisfy it; the coverage is the part that is fixed.

Which means that on the steep gable of a new Racine house, eave membrane is our specification rather than the code's minimum.

We put it there anyway, on a lakeshore where thaw and refreeze run all winter, and we say plainly that it is a choice we are recommending rather than a rule somebody is making us obey. Wind-driven rain off the lake is the other reason a starter strip gets adhered at the rake.

Roof loads come off the zone map printed in the code rather than a county-by-county table, and your trusses were designed to that figure. We read the drawings before touching anything: bearing, bracing, overhang, and whether the ventilation path the designer assumed will still exist once the insulation contractor has been through. Where the designer assumed a vented attic and the builder wants foam at the deck, somebody has to resolve that first.

Racine holds its own delegated authority from the Department of Safety and Professional Services over the construction and inspection of new one- and two-family dwellings, so the inspector is the city's. The code also lets work pass a stage when the inspector has not arrived by the end of the second business day after notice, which is how a dry-in stays on schedule honestly. That rule protects a schedule without anybody cutting a corner to keep it.

Asphalt laminate over a sound deck with real soffit intake is the right answer on most new roofs here, and we hold the Dwelling Contractor certification and the qualifier that a dwelling permit asks for. A builder who already has a roofer should stay with that arrangement, since we are not worth breaking a working subcontract for. Call us for the low-slope porch, the dormer, or a date that has to hold.

Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — hand-sealed shingle tabs set in spots of asphalt roof cement, pin-type moisture readings logged on the deck bay by bay, 1x6 plank sheathing laid with open gaps between boards, core cuts taken through a low-slope assembly to check the insulation, an above-sheathing airspace on a batten and counter-batten grid, two-piece counterflashing set into a ground-out mortar reglet — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Racine and nearby communities including Mount Pleasant, Caledonia, Kenosha, Pleasant Prairie.

What We Handle

Why Racine Chooses Racine Roof Pros

• ✓We take a moisture reading on the north slope before we quote, because the March number is the one that tells you what the deck has actually been living with
• ✓Any tear-off we install before the middle of May gets its field tabs hand-sealed, because a lakefront spring does not deliver the surface temperature a factory sealant strip needs
• ✓Every coating and sealant proposal carries a written dew point limit and substrate moisture limit, and we reschedule rather than spray when the numbers are wrong
• ✓No recover over an existing low-slope roof without a core cut first, and we hand you the core rather than describing it

The standards behind residential roof installation

Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The residential roof installation work we do in Racine follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.

Every residential roof installation project in Racine gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.

Ready to get started? Call (833) 452-1665 for a free residential roof installation free estimate in Racine, or request a quote on our contact page and we'll get right back to you.

Also On Our List

• Commercial Roof Installation
• Roof Replacement
• Roof Repair
• Asphalt Shingle Roofs