Green Bay Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Green Bay, De Pere, Howard and Brown County.
- Wisconsin Dwelling Contractor certified, with a Dwelling Contractor Qualifier on staff
- Every roof opening specified for wind-driven snow, not just for airflow
- Free inspection that includes the top of your attic insulation, not only the shingles
- Written workmanship warranty on every replacement
Our Roofing Services in Green Bay, WI
Roof Replacement
A tear-off is the only day of a roof's life when every opening in it is on the ground and can be reconsidered. We treat that as the point of the job, not a detail at the end of it.
Roof Leak Repair
The call we get most often in March is a brown ring on a bedroom ceiling, usually against an outside wall. A good share of those are not covering failures at all, and we will tell you so before we quote anything.
Storm Damage Restoration
The storm that costs money in Brown County is rarely the one on the evening news. A dry February northwester with a long fetch down the bay does quieter damage than a July squall line, and it does it every winter.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail is a real hazard here and an occasional one. Northeast Wisconsin gets warned storms most summers, but a given address may go a decade without a damaging fall, so the first job is deciding whether you actually have a loss.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind is the constant here, not the exception. January and February average around ten miles an hour over the whole month, which means the gusts inside those months are a different number entirely, and they arrive across open water and open farmland with nothing to slow them.
Roof Inspections
Timing changes what an inspection can find here, so we schedule around the weather instead of around the calendar. The most useful roof inspection in Green Bay happens in the week after a windy snow, and the evidence is inside.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Nearly every house in this county wears asphalt, and for good reason. A mid-weight architectural laminate is the cheapest way to get a roof that handles cold, wind and a long snow-cover season without asking anything unusual of the structure underneath it.
Metal Roofing
Metal makes obvious sense in a snow county and it solves one problem while creating another. Panels shed, so vents and valleys never sit buried, but every opening a metal roof has is a manufactured closure rather than a shingle lapped over a flange.
Tile Roofing
Here is the product we will usually argue you out of. Tile is a small part of the roofing stock in Brown County, it is there for architectural reasons on a handful of buildings, and on most Green Bay houses a new tile roof is the wrong purchase.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope shows up on houses here more than people expect: porch roofs, kitchen and bedroom additions from the 1960s, dormer tops, attached garages and the flat connector between two pitched sections. Those small areas cause a large share of the winter calls.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We sell fewer coatings than most contractors in this market, and the reason is the calendar. A coating is a wet product with a minimum application temperature and a cure window, and northeast Wisconsin gives you a reliable season of roughly five months.
Roof & Attic Ventilation
Everything else on this site reasons back to here. In Green Bay the roof's weakest points in winter are the holes we put in it deliberately, and most local ventilation advice makes that worse rather than better.
Skylights
A skylight is a curb standing proud of a slope, and on a snow-covered roof that curb is a snow fence. Whatever the wind is carrying stops on the upslope side of it and builds, which changes how we specify and where we agree to put one.
Gutters & Downspouts
An honest word first: gutters are not the centre of the winter story on a Green Bay house, and we are not going to sell you a premium system as a cold-weather fix. Ours is a drainage argument, not a winter one.
Fascia & Soffit
The soffit is the roof's intake, and in this climate it is also the most common way snow gets into an attic. Which is unfortunate, because the product almost every crew in this county installs by default is the one least able to resist it.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a masonry block sitting in the middle of a snow-covered slope, and everything the wind moves down that slope stops behind it. That is why the back side is where chimney leaks nearly always start in this county.
Emergency Tarping
Tarping in January is a different job from tarping in July, and crews that do not work in this climate get it wrong in the same predictable way. Adhesive products do not stick to a cold, wet or frosted deck, so a tarp fixed with tape is off before morning.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial low slope in this market has a winter failure mode that rarely appears in a national specification: snow blown into the building through its own equipment. Relief hoods, goosenecks, roof hatches and intake louvres all face the weather, and dry snow finds every one of them.
Insurance Claim Help
We will help you build a claim file and we will also tell you when you do not have a claim. Both of those save money, and the second one saves more of it than homeowners expect.
Green Bay Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Green Bay, Wisconsin, handling roof replacement, roof leak repair, roof inspections, storm damage and commercial work across Brown County. We install architectural laminate shingles, 24-gauge standing seam metal, and TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen membranes on low-slope decks. Free inspections, written scopes and an honest answer when a repair beats a replacement.
Repair work covers step and counter-flashing, valley metal, pipe boots, chimney crickets, ridge and soffit ventilation, skylight curbs, K-style aluminium gutters and downspouts, fascia and soffit, and winter tarping. Every replacement is torn off to the deck, fastened with six nails per shingle, and finished with starter strip at eaves and rakes. Soft sheathing is replaced by the sheet at a price quoted before the crew arrives.
What we do differently is treat the roof's own openings as the winter risk. The two windiest months here are also the snowiest, and dry snow at those wind speeds goes straight through a builder-grade ridge vent and a perforated vinyl soffit panel. We specify vents tested against wind-driven precipitation, and on exposed roofs we often install fewer of them. The vent plan is a written section of every proposal we hand you.
What Green Bay Customers Say
Two other companies quoted a full replacement for a ceiling stain. These guys went in the attic first, showed me a photo of snow sitting on the insulation and a perfectly clean deck, and replaced the ridge vent and the soffit instead. A quarter of the money and the stain never came back.
They talked me out of adding more roof vents, which is not what I expected from a roofer. Explained why with the actual guidance, sealed the ceiling from the attic, and put in one proper ridge run to replace six boxes. First winter with a dry attic in years.
Wind took the ridge cap off in February. Tarped it the same evening with furring strips and screws instead of tape, which the last outfit tried and lost overnight. Came back in April and did the whole ridge properly. Photos of everything.
Honest estimate on an old steep roof. They found the real leak at the chimney, built a cricket behind it and cut the counter-flashing into the mortar rather than gluing it on the brick. Told me the rest of the roof had years left. It did.
Why Green Bay Chooses Green Bay Roof Pros
- ✓We photograph the top of the attic insulation before we look at the shingles, because in this city the March ceiling stain usually started as snow that blew in through a vent
- ✓Every ventilation proposal names the vent model and its wind-driven precipitation certification, not just a net free area figure
- ✓On a wind-exposed roof we will reduce the number of openings rather than add them, and we put the reasoning in writing
- ✓Perforated vinyl soffit in J-channel is not our default intake — we price a fastened metal vent strip or a two-stage baffled intake instead
- ✓No overlays. Every replacement is a tear-off to the deck with the sheathing checked from the attic side first
- ✓We will tell you when a repair beats a replacement, when the right answer is to stop venting and insulate at the deck, and when a product you asked for will not survive a February northwester
About Green Bay Roof Pros in Green Bay, WI
Green Bay Roof Pros works Green Bay, De Pere, Howard, Bellevue, Ashwaubenon, Allouez, Suamico, Hobart and the surrounding Brown, Outagamie, Oconto and Kewaunee county communities. The building side of roofing here is ordinary: tear off to the deck, flash it properly, fasten it to the rating, and keep the sheathing dry.
The part that is local is what happens to the roof's openings. Green Bay averages around fifty-five inches of snow a year, most of it falling cold and dry, and the windiest months of the year are the same months.
Snow in that state behaves like a fluid, and it goes through ridge vents, soffit panels and equipment hoods that were never tested against it. Most of the winter ceiling stains we are called to start there rather than at a shingle.
Do not hire us if you want a coating over a tired shingle roof, because we will argue against it. Do not hire us if you want an overlay, or if you want the ventilation package maximised on a wind-exposed roof because a calculator said so. And if your roof has six good years left, we would rather write that down and come back later than sell you a new one this year.
How It Works
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Free Inspection, Roof and Attic
We walk what can be stood on safely, pole-camera whatever cannot, then go up into the attic with a light and a camera. You get dated photographs of the ridge, both rakes, every penetration and the top of the insulation, marked on a slope diagram.
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We Find Where the Air and Snow Get In
Every opening is counted and identified: length of ridge vent, number of box vents, intake type at the eave, bath and range hoods, plumbing stacks. Then we compare that against what has actually been landing inside, which is what tells us whether the covering is the problem at all.
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A Written Scope With the Vent Plan In It
The proposal names the shingle and its wind class, the underlayment, the flashing metal, the fastening pattern, and the vent and intake products by model. Two bids can only be compared honestly when both of them say what is actually being installed.
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Tear-Off, Install, Clean-Up
Landscaping and gutters get covered, the roof comes off to the deck, soft sheathing is replaced by the sheet at the price we quoted, and the assembly goes back the way the proposal reads. We roll the yard and drive with a magnet twice before we leave.
Commercial Roofing in Green Bay and Across Northeast Wisconsin
We roof and maintain warehouses and light industrial buildings, retail strips, medical and dental suites, restaurants, self-storage, houses of worship, schools and multi-building apartment communities across Brown County and the surrounding area.
On a low-slope roof in this climate the equipment is as important as the membrane: relief hoods, goosenecks, hatches and intake louvres all face the weather, and dry snow gets into buildings through every one of them. We detail those alongside the field and we log each penetration individually.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen systems
- ✓Polyiso insulation to the required R-value, with tapered packages for drainage
- ✓Extended throats and snow-tight louvres on relief hoods and goosenecks
- ✓Base flashing height measured against the drift the building actually makes
- ✓Roof hatches recurbed, weatherstripped and given a positive latch
- ✓Core cuts and moisture readings before any coating recommendation
- ✓Phased work with a nightly dry-in so tenants stay open
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance visits with a photographed condition log
Service Areas
Green Bay Roof Pros serves Green Bay, WI and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across northeast Wisconsin
Frequently Asked Questions
There was snow in my attic after a storm. Is my roof leaking?
Usually not in the way you think. Dry snow driven by a strong wind passes through most builder-grade ridge vents and through perforated vinyl soffit panel, then lands on top of the insulation and melts later. The covering can be perfectly sound. We photograph the insulation surface before we quote anything, because the fix for that is the vent and the ceiling plane, not the shingles.
Should I add more attic ventilation?
Not automatically, and in Green Bay often the opposite. Federal building science guidance is explicit that too much airflow through soffits drives snow into attics in cold climates. We would rather install fewer, better openings: a ridge vent with external baffles, a fastened metal intake, and an air-sealed ceiling underneath. Adding net free area with cheap vents makes the winter problem worse.
Do I need a permit to reroof a house in Green Bay?
Requirements are set by your municipality, and they differ between the city, the villages and the towns, so we confirm before we schedule. What is consistent across Wisconsin is that whoever obtains a building permit on a one- or two-family dwelling must hold a Dwelling Contractor certification or employ a certified Dwelling Contractor Qualifier. Ask any bidder for theirs.
How long should a roof last here?
Twenty to twenty-five years is fair for a mid-weight architectural laminate on a well-ventilated Brown County house. The variable that moves it most is not the brand. It is whether the ridge and cap survive being flexed cold every winter and whether the attic stays dry, which is why we grade the ridge and the attic separately on every inspection.
Can you replace a roof in winter?
Small repairs and dry-ins, yes, and we do them all winter. Full replacements are possible in the cold but the shingles will not seal until temperatures come up, so we hand-seal and we tell you that in writing rather than pretending otherwise. If the roof can wait for April, waiting is usually the better purchase.
Is a metal roof worth it in Green Bay?
Sometimes. Metal sheds snow, so vents and valleys stay clear, and on a complicated or heavily shaded roof that is worth real money. On a simple gable, a good asphalt roof with a properly specified vent package solves the same winter problem for far less. We will price both and show you where the difference actually goes.