Madison WI Roof Pros provides professional roof inspections in Madison, WI for residential and commercial properties across Dane County. We write two different reports and they are not interchangeable. One is for a person who lives in the house and wants to know what to do. The other is for someone who owns the building, will never climb it, and has to make a money decision from a desk.
The owner-occupier report is short and practical. Here is what is wrong, here is what it will cost, here is what can wait a season and here is what cannot. Photographs of the specific defects, marked on a roof sketch so you can find them again when a different contractor is standing on the same roof next year. You should not need a translator to read your own roof report.
The investor report is a different document. Remaining service life expressed as a range rather than a number, an annual reserve figure to set aside against it, the deferred items that will surface at sale or at a buyer's inspection, and a plain statement of which code path the building sits on. That last line matters, because a three-unit building is permitted as commercial work and the reserve should reflect it.
Access is the practical constraint on tenanted buildings. Wisconsin rental practice rules require advance written notice before entering an occupied unit for inspection, ordinarily twelve hours. We schedule the interior and attic portion with the roof portion so the notice covers one visit rather than two, and we ask owners to give tenants the actual window rather than a whole day.
Under the deck is where the honest information is. Fastener rust, staining at valleys and around penetrations, delamination at panel edges and daylight at the eaves all appear on the underside long before anything shows on top. A roof that looks tired from the street can have years left, and a roof that looks fine can be sitting on a deck that will not hold a nail.
Inspections are free when you are considering work with us and priced flat when you need an independent document for a purchase, a partner or a lender. In the second case we will happily tell you the roof is fine and take the fee, which is the entire point of paying for one rather than getting it free from someone who wants to sell you a roof.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a written unit-count and code-path determination, self-adhered ice barrier run past the interior wall line, six nails per shingle set in the double nailing zone, aluminum drip edge lapped over the ice barrier at the rake, closed-cut valleys shingled from the larger slope first, heat-welded single-ply on rear porch and dormer decks — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Madison and nearby communities including Sun Prairie, Fitchburg, Middleton, Verona.
What We Handle
Everything our roof inspections in Madison covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of roof inspections work in Madison, WI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- roof inspection Madison WI
- pre-purchase roof inspection
- rental property roof inspection
- remaining roof life estimate
- capital reserve roof report
- absentee owner roof report
- attic inspection Madison
- duplex roof inspection
- roof condition documentation
- annual roof inspection Dane County
- roof inspection report photos
- multi-unit roof survey
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Madison services.
Materials, equipment and how we do roof inspections
The difference between roof inspections that lasts and roof inspections that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with a written unit-count and code-path determination, self-adhered ice barrier run past the interior wall line, six nails per shingle set in the double nailing zone, aluminum drip edge lapped over the ice barrier at the rake, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Madison job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in Dane County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do roof inspections outside Madison
Madison WI Roof Pros covers Madison and the surrounding communities of Dane County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Roof Inspections in Sun Prairie, WI — Dane County, population 35,967
- Roof Inspections in Fitchburg, WI — Dane County, population 29,609
- Roof Inspections in Middleton, WI — Dane County, population 21,827
- Roof Inspections in Verona, WI — Dane County, population 14,030
- Roof Inspections in Waunakee, WI — Dane County, population 14,879
- Roof Inspections in Stoughton, WI — Dane County, population 13,173
Start on the Madison WI Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Madison Chooses Madison WI Roof Pros
- ✓We settle who owns the building and how many dwelling units are under the roof before we price anything, because in this city that single answer moves the code, the permit and the product all at once.
- ✓An owner who lives in the house may pull their own reroof permit here. A landlord may not, and we put that in writing at the bid rather than letting it surface at the permit counter.
- ✓At three dwelling units your house stops being a house in code terms and becomes a commercial building under chs. SPS 361 to 366. We say so before you collect three residential bids that cannot be permitted.
- ✓Interior and attic access on tenanted buildings is booked around the written advance notice Wisconsin owes an occupant, so no inspection gets refused at the door and no visit is wasted.
The standards behind roof inspections
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The roof inspections work we do in Madison 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 roof inspections project in Madison 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 (844) 511-2320 for a free roof inspections free estimate in Madison, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.