Roofing services
Roofing services: which one your roof needs
Seventeen kinds of roofing work in four groups: what each involves, the symptom that points to each, and the mix-ups that cost money.
Written by HyreRoof Research Desk Primary-source research and fact checking
The short answer
Most roofing work falls into four groups: repair, replacement and inspection; storm and emergency work; the roof’s openings and edges; and repairs specific to metal, tile or slate. What you are seeing decides which one. Each page covers the work, the price drivers and what to ask.
HyreRoof does no roofing work. These pages help you judge a quote and a roofer.
Which roofing service do I need?
You may know the symptom but not the service name. Find what you are seeing, and it points to the right page.
| What you are seeing | Where to start |
|---|---|
| Water is coming in right now | Emergency roof tarping (stay off the roof) |
| A tarp is on and you need the real fix | Emergency roof repair |
| A stain on a ceiling after rain | Roof repair |
| A stain next to the chimney | Chimney flashing repair |
| Water at a skylight frame | Skylight replacement |
| Shingles missing after wind | Wind damage roof repair |
| Hail came through the neighborhood | Hail damage roof repair |
| Dented gutters and downspouts | Hail damage roof repair (check from the ground) |
| Rotting boards behind the gutters | Soffit and fascia repair |
| A metal, tile or slate roof is leaking | Metal, tile or slate roof repair |
| An old roof nobody has looked at | Roof inspection |
| Granules collecting in the gutters | Roof inspection |
| A roofer says you need a new roof | Repair or replace first |
| You have estimates to compare | Reading a roof replacement estimate |
| Gutters overflow even when clean | Gutter services |
| You are buying or selling the house | Roof inspection |
Repair, replace or inspect
The whole-roof decisions, and the documents and layers that decide what they cost.
Storms and emergencies
What to do in the first hour, and the permanent work that follows.
Parts of the roof
The openings and edges where most leaks and rot begin.
Repairs by roof material
Metal, tile and slate fail in their own ways and need their own trade skills.
New roofs and roof systems
What goes on, layer by layer, when the covering itself is being replaced or recoated.
Attic, seasonal and paperwork
The jobs around the roof: air and heat in the attic, winter and moss, and the documents a sale or a storm program asks for.
Which roofing jobs get mixed up?
Four confusions that change what you buy. Each one is worth settling before anyone quotes.
It keeps water out while you arrange the real work, and it wears out. See emergency tarping.
One records condition. The other prices a scope. A company doing both has a job to win, which does not make its inspection wrong.
Policies can treat damage from one event differently from wear over years, and only your own policy wording says how yours does. See storm damage and insurance.
Settle it before you take quotes, because the two are scoped and priced differently. Work through the factors.
Your inquiry
Tell us about the work
Nothing goes to a roofer unless you agree.
A person reads it and replies by email, free and with no obligation. Matching is not live yet, so this is not a quote. If water is coming in now, call a local roofer directly and check their license first.
Find a Roofer
One short form: your address and how to reach you. A person at HyreRoof reads it and replies.
Questions
Does HyreRoof do any of this work?
What if I cannot tell which service I need?
What is the difference between an inspection and a storm assessment?
Do I need a separate contractor for gutters?
Why is there no average price on these pages?
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HyreRoof Research Desk
Primary-source research, data analysis and fact checking
We are a research desk, not a sales floor. We read the statute, the licensing board’s own pages, the code section or the federal dataset ourselves, and every figure we publish carries the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify.
On our first study that rule removed a Minnesota exam statistic and left two states blank. Those gaps are on the page, not in a file somewhere.
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Information on these pages is general and varies by location, building code, roof design, insurance policy and your own circumstances. It is not insurance, legal or engineering advice. HyreRoof is not a roofing contractor: we do not repair, replace, inspect or tarp roofs, and we do not supervise or warrant roofing work.