Kokomo Roof Pros: Replacement, Leak Repair, Storm Work, Metal and Gutters
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Every tear-off is photographed open across Howard County, and a written estimate costs nothing.
Open-deck photographs taken before a single bundle is loaded·Penetration count written into the proposal, not the sales pitch·Indiana issues no roofing license and Kokomo issues none either·Free written estimates across Howard, Miami, Cass and Carroll counties
Kokomo Roof Pros handles roof replacement, leak repair, storm damage work, metal roofing, flat and low-slope membrane, ventilation, gutters, fascia and commercial roofing across Kokomo and Howard County. We work in asphalt laminate, SBS-modified shingle, standing seam and single-ply membrane, and we quote deck replacement at a published per-sheet rate instead of hiding it inside an allowance nobody can check.
The reason we work that way is specific to this city. Indiana issues no roofing license, and the City of Kokomo states plainly on its own permits page that it does not require general contractors to be licensed at all. Its permit office issues building, electrical, sewer tap, demolition, street cut and driveway permits, and has no roofing category anywhere on the list.
So no inspector is ever coming to look at your roof, and no permit record exists that describes it. The open deck is the only honest record there is. That is why we photograph every stage of a tear-off, count the penetrations before we price the job, tell you which ones are dead, and leave the whole file with you when the crew drives away.
Our Roofing Services in Kokomo, IN
Roof Replacement
A Kokomo tear-off is the first honest look anyone has taken at your roof. No state inspector exists for this trade, and the city permit desk keeps no roofing category at all, so the deck we open is the entire record of what you own.
Roof Leak Repair
Kokomo leaks rarely begin out in open field shingle. They are at a hole somebody cut on purpose, then flashed, then forgot about.
Storm Damage Restoration
Howard County has been through this twice inside three years. An EF2 crossed the southeast side of Kokomo on November 17, 2013, and an EF3 with peak winds estimated at 152 miles per hour ran an 8.78-mile track across the south side on August 24, 2016.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail calls in Kokomo arrive in clusters, usually behind a spring line of storms, usually with a free inspection attached. The free part is the problem.
Wind Damage Roofing
Kokomo loses far more shingles to an ordinary sixty-mile-an-hour gust than it ever lost to a tornado. The two tornado tracks were narrow: 300 yards at their widest in 2016.
Roof Inspections
Read this one as an argument against our own service. Kokomo is full of free roof inspections, most worth what they cost.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Nearly every steep-slope roof in Howard County is asphalt, and the choice that actually decides how long yours lasts is not the shingle. It is the nail line, the starter and the underlayment beneath it.
Metal Roofing
We install metal and we talk a fair number of Kokomo homeowners out of it. That is not modesty, it is the arithmetic of a market where the median owner-occupied house is worth about a hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Tile Roofing
Start with the truth: clay and concrete tile is close to absent from Kokomo's housing stock, and on most houses here we will recommend against it. This page exists because people ask, and because the reasons deserve explaining rather than talking around.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope roofs in Kokomo are mostly not buildings. They are the rear addition, the carport, the enclosed back porch and the breezeway that got added to a 1950s ranch between 1962 and 1985, usually by somebody who ran the house shingle straight across a pitch it was never rated for.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings are sold hard in this market and they are right about a third of the time. The other two thirds they are a way of covering evidence, and on a stock of undocumented storm roofs that is the last thing Kokomo needs.
Roof Ventilation
Almost every ventilation problem we open up in Kokomo is a problem of too many vent types rather than too few. The house has ridge vent, and box vents, and a powered fan, and open gable louvers, all working against each other.
Skylights
Every skylight is a hole in the roof with a warranty attached, and on the roofs we work on in Kokomo a meaningful number of them should simply be closed. Roofers do not usually commit that to paper, so the reasoning is worth setting out.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters are the part of the roof you can inspect from the ground, which makes them the best early evidence you have about work you never got to watch. A trough that sags between hangers, or pulls away at one end, is usually telling you about the wood behind it.
Fascia & Soffit
Aluminum wrap over fascia is the most effective way to hide rot in this housing stock, and it went up across Kokomo by the trailer-load in the 1980s and 1990s. It looks maintenance-free from the street.
Chimney Flashing
More jobs die on this page than on any other page we write. A large share of the brick chimneys we are called to reflash in Kokomo are not connected to anything at all, and reflashing them is money spent renewing a problem rather than removing it.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp is a temporary structure and it should be treated like one. After August 2016 there were blue tarps on the south side of Kokomo still flying the following spring, which is long enough for the tarp itself to become the problem.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in Indiana runs by different rules than housing, and in Kokomo the difference is stark. A house here needs no roofing permit, no licensed contractor and no inspection at all, and the owner has no practical way to obtain one.
Insurance Claim Help
There is no permit record for your roof. If it was replaced after the 2013 or 2016 tornadoes, the City of Kokomo has no roofing permit on file, because the permit office does not issue one, and no inspector ever signed anything.
Why Kokomo Chooses Kokomo Roof Pros
- ✓Nobody from the city will ever climb your ladder, so we photograph every stage of the tear-off and hand you the whole file at the end.
- ✓We count the roof penetrations before we price the job and tell you which ones are dead and can simply be closed and decked over.
- ✓We will read a 2016 storm roof honestly, including the times the answer is that it has years left in it and you should wait.
- ✓Deck replacement is quoted at a published per-sheet rate rather than buried inside an allowance you have no way to check afterwards.
- ✓Door-knocking after a storm is not something this company does, and we never ask for a signature before your carrier's adjuster has written a scope.
- ✓Shingle, underlayment, metal gauge and fastener are all named on the quote, which is what makes a rival bid genuinely comparable.
About Kokomo Roof Pros in Kokomo, IN
Kokomo Roof Pros works out of Kokomo and covers Howard County and the towns around it in Miami, Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Tipton and Grant counties. Steep-slope asphalt and metal, low-slope membrane on additions and commercial buildings, flashing, ventilation, gutters and storm work.
We built this company around one local fact. Nothing in Indiana licenses a roofer, nothing in Kokomo registers one, and no inspector will ever climb your ladder. That absence is not a loophole to enjoy, it is a gap somebody has to fill, so we fill it with documentation: penetration counts before pricing, photographs at every stage of the tear-off, and a written scope in units you can hand to a competitor.
There are jobs we turn down. If your roof went on after the 2016 storm and has not leaked, our advice is to wait, and we would rather say that than sell an inspection. If you want tile on a 1950s ranch, a structural engineer looks at the framing before we price anything.
If you want a coating sprayed on asphalt shingles, we will not do it at any price, because it does not work and it makes the eventual tear-off worse.
Service Areas
Kokomo Roof Pros serves Kokomo, IN and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
We look before we quote
A quote starts in the attic, not on the driveway. We read the sheathing from underneath, check the nail lines for daylight, trace any staining to a source and count every penetration on the roof. Then you get a number built on what we found rather than on a square-foot average.
The scope is written in units
Squares, sheets, linear feet of metal, fastener count per shingle, gauge, and the exact product names. Deck replacement carries a published per-sheet rate. You can hand the page to another roofer and get a genuine comparison, which is the point of writing it that way.
Tear-off, then photographs
The deck comes fully open before anything new goes down. We photograph the sheathing, the failed boards we pull, the closed penetrations, and the nail line on every slope while it is still uncovered. That is the inspection this city does not otherwise provide.
You keep the file
At the end you get the photographs at full resolution, the manufacturer's application sheet for the shingle we installed, the final counts and a workmanship warranty that names what we closed and what we left. Next storm, next adjuster or next owner, that file is the whole history.
Recent Projects Across Howard County and north central Indiana
What Kokomo Customers Say
They found seven penetrations on our roof and told us four of them were dead and could be closed. The quote came in under the roofer who wanted to reflash all of them, and we have the photos of every board they replaced.
Our chimney has not vented anything since the furnace was replaced. Instead of quoting flashing they took it down below the deck and shingled across. One less thing on the roof and it cost less than the reflash.
The per-sheet deck price was on the quote and the final bill matched the count they photographed. After two bids with a vague allowance line, that alone decided it for us. Crew was tidy and the yard was clean.
They inspected after a hail storm and told us the count did not support a claim and that we should not file. No charge, no pressure. We called them back two years later for the actual replacement.
Commercial and industrial roofing across Howard County
Commercial roofing in Indiana is the one part of this market with genuine third-party review: a Class 1 structure needs a State Design Release before Kokomo will issue a permit. We survey before we propose, take core cuts to establish what is dry, pull-test fasteners on older steel deck, and count drains against roof area.
Then we tell you whether the roof is a restoration candidate or a tear-off, and we let the core cut decide it rather than the proposal.
- ✓Core cuts and moisture survey before any proposal is written
- ✓TPO, PVC and EPDM single-ply, mechanically attached or fully adhered
- ✓Silicone restoration systems where the core comes back genuinely dry
- ✓Fastener pull tests on 1960s steel deck before a system is specified
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate built to a quarter inch per foot
- ✓Drain, sump and scupper counts checked against actual roof area
- ✓Multi-building condition registers with a replacement year for each roof
- ✓Work sequenced around production schedules and tenant operating hours
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Kokomo reroof need a building permit?
The City of Kokomo permit office issues building, electrical, sewer tap, demolition, street cut and driveway permits and a certificate of occupancy. There is no roofing permit category, and a like-for-like reroof is not a structural modification. Commercial work is different: a Class 1 structure needs a State Design Release before the city issues a building permit. Call the permit office at the number on their page if your project changes framing.
Is a roofing contractor licensed in Indiana?
No. Indiana issues no roofing contractor license at the state level, and Kokomo publishes on its own building permits page that the city does not require general contractors to be licensed. Some Indiana cities do license or register roofers. Kokomo does not. That means the only things you can actually verify are the insurance certificate, the references and the written scope, so ask for all three.
How much does a roof replacement cost in Kokomo?
It depends mostly on squares, roof geometry and how much deck has to be replaced, and the deck is the part that varies wildly on pre-1960 housing. We publish a per-sheet rate rather than an allowance, so the number can only move in a way you can check. Ask any bidder what their per-sheet deck rate is; a vague answer there tells you a lot.
My roof was replaced after the 2016 tornado. Should I worry?
Not automatically, but it is worth reading. Those roofs went up fast, without permits or inspections, and are now around a decade old. The thing to check is nail placement: lift two or three shingles on the windward slope and see whether the nails sit in the reinforced strip or above it. High nailing is the defect we find most in that generation of work.
Do you charge for an inspection?
For a full condition report with attic time, penetration counts and photographs, yes. The cost of a free inspection is recovered out of the work it generates, so the finding and the inspector's income lean the same direction. If you have had a storm and want a quick look to see whether a claim is worth pursuing, that visit costs nothing and you will get a straight answer, including a no.
Which towns do you cover from Kokomo?
Howard County first, then Greentown, Russiaville and the Tipton County towns south of us, Peru, Bunker Hill and Converse to the north, Logansport, Galveston and Royal Center to the west, Delphi, Flora and Burlington in Carroll County, and Frankfort, Rossville and Kirklin in Clinton County. Sweetser is our northeast limit. If you are outside that, say so and we will tell you straight.