Birmingham Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Pelham, AL — Shelby County, population 24,318. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Pelham homes and businesses.
Pelham property owners near Oak Mountain State Park, the Pelham Civic Complex and Ice Arena count on Birmingham Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Pelham, AL. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Birmingham to every job in Pelham, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 669-3509 for a free roofing estimate in Pelham, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Pelham, AL
The tornado of March 25, 2021 weakened crossing New Hope Mountain near Pelham High School and then strengthened again to EF2 along Crosscreek Trail and Wilderness Road. Four homes lost their roofs outright, two of those lost an exterior wall, and many more took partial roof damage. Trees came down onto houses in Chandalar. That is the storm Pelham owners actually remember.
It kept going after that, damaging business roofs and mobile homes past Highway 31 and clipping the far northern portion of Oak Mountain State Park. Survey crews rated the whole 39-mile track EF3. A share of Pelham's roofs now date from that spring, and knowing which ones decides whether we are inspecting a covering or auditing somebody's hurried repair.
The city permits its own work through a building department with a named building official and a citizen access portal, and it publishes separate residential and commercial requirement handbooks. Read the residential one before you sign anything. It sets out what documentation the city expects, which is more than most bidders will volunteer.
Pelham is almost entirely a modern town. Census counts find just 114 of its 9,698 housing units standing from before 1960, roughly one percent, with 4,984 built since 2000 and a median year of 2000. Solid masonry chimneys are close to nonexistent. What we find instead is framed chases, flat pans and skylights bedded in mastic.
The city also carries 350 mobile homes, and Oak Mountain puts a great many of its roofs under heavy hardwood. Those two facts combine badly. Debris loads the valleys year-round, gutters undersized for the drainage area back up, and the water finds the one fastener that was short. We clear before we inspect, because the failure is under the leaf litter.
Gutter sizing here is a calculation, not a habit. We size from the roof area draining to each run rather than matching whatever was screwed to the fascia in 2003, and on the long steep runs off Oak Mountain that usually means six-inch trough with three-by-four downspouts and a discharge carried well clear of the foundation.
About 83 percent of occupied Pelham units are owner-occupied and roughly 45 percent heat with electricity. Where a chase serves nothing but a decorative firebox, sealing the attic penetration and fitting a proper stainless cover is a morning's work. We would rather quote that and lose the reroof than sell you a roof the house did not need.
Roofing work we do in Pelham, AL
Birmingham Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Pelham that we do in Birmingham — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — Central Alabama storms take the tallest thing on the house first. On the pre-war stock that is a brick stack standing three or four feet above the ridge with nothing bracing it, and it comes down across the slope rather than off the side.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail reaches Jefferson County most springs, but far less of what gets called hail damage here is actually hail. We would rather tell you that on the first visit than help you file a claim that gets denied and then sits in your loss history for five years.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind failure on an older Birmingham house starts at the stack, not at the rake. A brick chimney standing proud of the ridge throws a pressure shadow downwind, and the shingles in it lift and reseal a few thousand times before one stops resealing.
- Roof Inspections — Our inspection has an extra stop that most do not: the inside of every flue. A mirror and a light at the top of the stack tell you whether the flue is lined, whether it is holding water, and whether anything is still connected below.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Asphalt covers the overwhelming majority of roofs in this county and it should. Our advice on it is unfashionable: buy a mid-weight architectural laminate, buy it in the standard line, and put the difference into the brick and the metal it has to meet.
- Metal Roofing — We install standing seam and we like it, and we will still talk a fair number of Birmingham homeowners out of it. The reason is the same thing that makes this a good roofing city to work in: the number of things sticking up through the plane.
See the full list of Birmingham services, or call (833) 669-3509.
About Pelham, AL — and why local matters here
Pelham sits in Shelby County with a population of roughly 24,318, close enough to Birmingham that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Oak Mountain State Park, the Pelham Civic Complex and Ice Arena.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Pelham properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Shelby County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Pelham
Call (833) 669-3509 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Pelham, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Mountain Brook, AL and the rest of Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. Everything starts at the Birmingham Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Pelham: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Mountain Brook, AL and Jefferson County and the Birmingham district.