Birmingham Roof Pros provides professional tile roofing in Birmingham, AL for residential and commercial properties across Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. Clay tile is rarer here than in the Sun Belt cities, but it is not rare in the neighborhoods that matter. The 1920s money in Redmont, Forest Park and the early Mountain Brook villages bought Mediterranean and Tudor houses, and many still wear their original tile.
That tile is usually in better condition than the assembly under it. Barrel and interlocking clay from that era is often serviceable at a hundred years old. What has failed is the underlayment, the fastenings and the metal, and all three are replaced in a relay: the tile is lifted in courses, stacked and sorted on the ground, then set back over new self-adhered underlayment. We tell people to relay rather than replace almost every time.
A relay with fifteen percent breakage allowance and salvaged or reclaimed tile for the balance costs a fraction of new tile and keeps a roof that cannot be matched. Modern concrete tile next to century-old clay reads wrong from the street and it always will. Roof hooks and a proper ladder plan cost less than a morning of replacing tiles that a crew broke getting to the ridge.
The chimney is where tile roofs in this city leak. A tile plane does not sit flat against masonry, so the flashing has to be a soaker-and-cover system with a mortar-set or lead-formed apron that follows the tile profile, plus a proper cricket above the stack. Half the tile chimney leaks we open have a single piece of flat aluminum and a tube of sealant. Foot traffic is the other killer.
Tile is walked on the lower third of the tile over a supported point, never in the middle of a span, and never at all if there is a safer route. Every crew that has been up there without knowing that has left cracked tiles that will not show until the next hard rain. If your tile is a 1980s concrete product on a 1980s house, the calculation is different and we will say so.
Those roofs are heavy, the tiles are unremarkable, and once the underlayment is spent the honest comparison against a good architectural shingle is worth running. Sometimes the answer really is to change materials. Reclaimed tile from this era turns up regularly around the metro, and we will hold a job two weeks to get the right profile.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, sheet-metal thimble covers sealed at abandoned flue openings, corbelled brick stacks standing proud of the ridge — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Birmingham and nearby communities including Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Homewood.
What We Handle
Everything our tile roofing in Birmingham covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of tile roofing work in Birmingham, AL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Birmingham services.
Materials, equipment and how we do tile roofing
The difference between tile roofing that lasts and tile roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, 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 Birmingham 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham district 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 tile roofing outside Birmingham
Birmingham Roof Pros covers Birmingham and the surrounding communities of Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Tile Roofing in Hoover, AL — Jefferson and Shelby counties, population 92,606
- Tile Roofing in Vestavia Hills, AL — Jefferson County, population 39,102
- Tile Roofing in Alabaster, AL — Shelby County, population 33,284
- Tile Roofing in Homewood, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,414
- Tile Roofing in Trussville, AL — Jefferson and St. Clair counties, population 26,123
- Tile Roofing in Bessemer, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,019
Start on the Birmingham Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Birmingham Chooses Birmingham Roof Pros
- ✓We settle the chimney before we price the covering, because on a pre-war Birmingham house that is the item that moves the number
- ✓Every dead flue gets three priced options — rebuild and recrown, cap and keep, or remove below the deck — and we say which we would choose
- ✓Nothing comes down until the fuel question is answered in writing, and a live appliance is re-vented by a licensed mechanical contractor first
- ✓Flashing is two pieces of fabricated metal cut into a raked bed joint, never one piece bedded in sealant
The standards behind tile roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The tile roofing work we do in Birmingham 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 tile roofing project in Birmingham 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 tile roofing free estimate in Birmingham, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.