Savannah Roof Pros: Roof Repair, Replacement & Metal Roofing
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Chatham County, with a written scope and an honest answer about what your roof actually needs.
- ✓No Georgia roofing license to check; insured and bonded
- ✓Historic District Board of Review submittals prepared in house
- ✓Written workmanship warranty on every installation
- ✓Free roof and attic inspection across the Coastal Empire
Why Savannah Chooses Savannah Roof Pros
- ✓Whether your address needs a Certificate of Appropriateness is answered at the first visit, in writing, before we quote a number
- ✓Salvaged slate, matched tile and flat-lock pans kept on the shelf, so one failed course on a protected roof stays a small repair
- ✓Attic moisture readings on every inspection, because in this humidity a fair share of Savannah leak calls turn out to be condensation
- ✓Perimeter and edge fastening specified for what comes off the water in September, not for the manufacturer's inland minimum
- ✓We turn down shingle coatings, pressure washing and aluminum wrap over historic cornices, and we will tell you exactly why
How It Works
Free Inspection, On the Roof
We get on the roof and into the attic, not just onto the driveway. You get photographs of every elevation and detail, moisture readings from the decking, and a plain statement of what needs doing now against what can safely wait a season.
We Tell You If Review Applies
Before any pricing, we confirm whether your address sits in a designated district. If it does, we explain what the Historic District Board of Review will look at, what is likely to be approved, and how much time the certificate adds to the schedule.
A Written Scope With Real Numbers
You get the underlayment, the fastener pattern, the edge and flashing metal and the disposal all written out, with a price against each part. If we think a repair beats a replacement, the quote says so and we lose the larger sale.
Installed, Documented and Cleaned Up
We photograph the deck once it is open so you see what was under there, magnet-sweep the grounds at the end of every day, and leave you the material data, the workmanship warranty and the photograph set for your records.
Savannah Roofing: Every Service
Residential Roof Installation
This is the roof that goes on a structure which has never had one. New construction, a rear addition, a carriage house conversion, a garage going up off a lane.
Commercial Roof Installation
Savannah runs two commercial roofing markets that have almost nothing in common, and knowing which one your building sits in is the first useful thing anyone can tell you. Most contractors here work one of them competently and treat the other as if it followed the same rules.
Roof Replacement
Replacing a roof in Savannah starts at a desk, not on a ladder. If the address sits inside one of the city's designated districts, the Historic District Board of Review looks at the proposal before the building department will issue a permit for it.
Roof Repair
This is the page for damage without a leak. Tabs off one slope after an easterly blow, a split vent boot, ridge or hip cap worked loose, a cracked slate, a limb through a dormer face, or the hole a satellite dish left behind.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt is the right roof for most of this metro, and we say that without hedging. Outside the designated districts, on the Southside, in Georgetown and Windsor Forest, across Pooler and Richmond Hill and the newer subdivisions, a well-installed laminate shingle roof is the sensible purchase.
Cool Roof Installation
Savannah has the climate a cool roof was designed for: a long humid cooling season, a short mild winter, and sun that sits high for months. The product is two measured numbers, and both are worth real money here.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Downtown Savannah is a low-slope city. Behind the parapets along Broughton Street, through the River Street warehouse blocks and across the row buildings in between, most of what covers those buildings is flat, invisible from the sidewalk, and governed by a rule worth understanding before you spend anything.
Hail Damage Roofing
This page argues against the sale. Savannah is not a hail market, and if somebody has told you your roof has hail damage, the odds are good that they are wrong or that they are counting on you not knowing the difference.
Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers, not public adjusters, and we do not negotiate your claim for you. What we do is document a roof properly and explain what we found, which is usually what a claim turns on.
Metal Roofing
Metal has been on Savannah roofs since long before it was fashionable. Terne-coated standing seam, flat-lock pans and pressed metal shingle cover a great deal of the older housing stock here, and on a protected building metal is frequently what the review expects to see going back on.
Roof Leak Repair
Most roofs we are called to in Savannah are not failing. They are leaking at three or four square inches of detail while several thousand square feet of covering sit there doing their job perfectly well.
Roof Skylight Installation
A skylight is a hole cut in the one part of a building whose purpose is not having holes in it. That is a manageable risk done properly.
Storm Damage Restoration
Savannah's storm record is uneven, which is what makes it awkward. The city went most of the twentieth century with little to show, then took a partial eyewall landfall from Hurricane Matthew in 2016, a brush from Irma the next year, and impacts from Debby and Helene in 2024.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon in Savannah and that shapes how it should be handled. This is not Florida or California, where tile is the default and every supply house stocks it.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind is the real peril on this coast, and we will not talk you down from it. Chatham County is one of six coastal Georgia counties that sit in the state's most exposed wind territory, and roofs here are asked to hold against pressures that inland Georgia never sees.
What Savannah Customers Say
They found the leak in an afternoon after two other companies had guessed at it. It was a coping joint, not the roof at all. They fixed the joint, charged for a repair and did not try to sell me a new roof.
Straightforward replacement on a ten-year-old house. They walked the deck with me once it was stripped, showed me the two sheets that needed replacing and priced them on the spot. Crew swept the yard twice.
After Helene we had a section gone off the back slope. They tarped it the same evening without putting a single screw through the good tile, then matched the replacement properly a few weeks later.
Told me my roof had about six years left and did not need anything doing. Wrote it in the report with photographs. I have called them twice since for other properties because of that one answer.
Most of the roofs we are called out to in Savannah are not failing from the top down. They are failing under a live oak.
A limb hangs over the back slope, the shade holds that side damp until nearly noon, leaves and moss pack the valley, and water that should have been gone in ten minutes sits there through another humid afternoon instead.
By the time a ceiling stains inside, the decking under that valley has been wet on and off for two or three years.
So we start at the trees and the details, not at the square footage. Savannah Roof Pros handles roof repair, roof replacement, metal roofing and low-slope commercial work across Savannah and the wider Coastal Empire. We install architectural laminate shingle, standing-seam and flat-lock metal, clay tile and salvaged slate relay work, and TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen behind parapets.
On the older houses downtown that usually means cutting step and counterflashing back into soft lime mortar rather than caulking over the top of it.
The thing that decides how your job goes is not the roof. It is the address. If you sit under the Historic District Board of Review, the Certificate of Appropriateness comes before the building permit, and the material and the profile are not entirely yours to choose.
Out in Pooler, Georgetown or Richmond Hill none of that applies and the job is a straightforward one. We tell you which side of that line your address falls on at the first visit, in writing, before you have spent anything.
Two opinions, free of charge.
The first is that hurricane season, June through November, is the worst stretch of the year to go shopping for a roof on this coast, because everybody else is shopping too and the crews worth having are booked solid; if yours can hold one more season, late winter is a calmer and usually cheaper time to buy.
The second is that a black streak down your north slope is not a reason to replace anything, and we will tell you that on the phone rather than drive out and sell you a roof.
About Savannah Roof Pros in Savannah, GA
We work across Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Liberty counties, on roofs that run from original terne standing seam downtown to laminate shingle in subdivisions that were pine woods a decade ago. Both deserve the same standard. What they share is the air: salt pushes inland off Tybee and up the river, and it reaches the fasteners and the edge metal long before it bothers the field, so we specify stainless attachment on anything meant to last.
Georgia issues no roofing license to hold up, so we point instead at what can be checked: full liability and workers' compensation coverage, a permit pulled in our own name against your address, and a written workmanship warranty on every installation on top of whatever the manufacturer provides.
Which office issues that permit depends on where the house sits, city or unincorporated county, and we sort that out rather than asking you to. Our crews are our own, and we photograph the deck once it is open.
There is work we would rather you did not give us. If black algae streaking is the whole complaint, that is cosmetic, and a new roof is the most expensive fix anyone has proposed for a cosmetic problem.
If your house is outside the districts, the roof is eight years old and a pipe boot has split, that is an afternoon of work and nobody should be quoting you a replacement, ourselves included. And for a small repair down in Glennville or Claxton, a roofer closer to you will beat us on response time. We will say so.
Recent Projects Across the Coastal Empire
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Service Areas
Savannah Roof Pros serves Savannah, GA and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Roofing in Savannah and Across the Coastal Empire
Savannah runs two commercial roofing markets with almost nothing in common. Downtown, the Broughton Street storefronts, the River Street warehouses and the row buildings between them are low-slope roofs behind parapets, on old structures, in a district where the coping and anything breaking the roofline are reviewed even though the hidden membrane generally is not.
West and north of that, the port and industrial buildings around Garden City, the distribution space along the interstate corridors and the hotel and retail development through Pooler and Richmond Hill are large single-ply and structural metal fields with no review at all. We work both, and we scope them differently because the constraints are not the same.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen low-slope systems
- ✓Parapet coping and cornice detailing matched to existing profiles for review submittals
- ✓Structural and standing-seam metal on warehouse and light industrial buildings
- ✓Certificate of Appropriateness submittals prepared for protected commercial buildings
- ✓Infrared and core moisture surveys before any recovery or coating recommendation
- ✓Restaurant roof work around grease-laden exhaust curbs and rooftop equipment
- ✓Drain, scupper and tapered insulation correction for summer thunderstorm volume
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance programs with a documented roof file for property managers
Frequently Asked Questions
My house is in the landmark district. Do I really have to go through Historic Review just to put a roof on it?
If your address sits in a designated district, yes, and the order catches people out: the Certificate of Appropriateness comes first and the building permit follows it. The city has several such districts, including the downtown landmark district, the Victorian district, Cuyler-Brownville, Thomas Square, Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent and Pin Point.
Repairing in kind is generally treated differently from changing a visible material or the roofline, which is why a like-for-like slate repair tends to move quickly and a ridge vent on a street-facing slope is a hard application.
We confirm your status at the first visit and put it in writing, so you can budget the calendar as well as the money.
The live oak drops Spanish moss all over my roof. Is it eating my shingles?
No, and that one never gets old. Spanish moss is an air plant. It takes nothing from the oak it hangs on and nothing from your roof either; it is doing about as much harm to your shingles as it is doing to the tree, which is none.
The tree is still the problem, and the problem is shade and debris. A slope under a live oak stays wet for hours after the rest of the roof has dried, packed valleys back water up under the course above, and limbs scour granules off in a blow.
Trim the overhang, keep the valleys clear, leave the moss alone, and check with the city before you assume that tree is yours to take down.
What are the black streaks running down the back of my roof, and can you pressure wash them off?
That is algae, not mold and not dirt, and in this humidity it turns up on nearly every asphalt roof with a shaded or north-facing slope. It is cosmetic. We have opinions about the pressure washing, and the short version is do not.
A pressure washer takes the granules off along with the streaking, turns a cosmetic problem into a real one, and will generally finish off whatever manufacturer warranty you had left. A gentle wash by somebody who does only that is fine.
A zinc or copper strip at the ridge slows the streaking from coming back, and when the roof is genuinely due, an algae-resistant shingle costs very little more.
Who pulls the permit for a reroof here, the city or Chatham County?
It turns on where the house actually sits, which trips people up because the mailing address says Savannah either way. Inside the city, Development Services handles it. An unincorporated Chatham County address goes instead to the county Department of Building Safety and Regulatory Services, whose published list of work requiring a permit names re-roofing outright.
Worth knowing separately: no Georgia agency issues a roofing license to anybody, so there is no license number for you to check on this coast. The permit is the thing that can be verified, and we pull it in our own name against your address.
Hurricane season is coming. Is there anything worth doing to the roof before it does?
Yes, and it is not the thing people picture. Nobody is reroofing a house in the three days before a storm, and a roof that is sound in the field rarely fails in the field.
It fails at the eaves, the rakes and the corners, where the wind gets a hand underneath, so what is worth doing in May is having the perimeter fastening and the edge metal checked and the valleys cleared.
Afterward we stabilize as a holding action, and how we fasten matters: we will not screw battens through sound slate, standing seam or original clay tile to hold a tarp, because that puts dozens of new holes in a roof that failed in one place.
Ballpark, what is a new roof running in Savannah right now?
The honest answer begins with which of the two Savannahs your house is in. An architectural shingle replacement on the Southside, in Georgetown or out in Pooler is priced on square footage, pitch, layers to strip and deck condition, and we are competitive with anything you will be quoted.
A protected building inside a designated district carries survey time, submittal drawings, matched material that may have to be sourced or salvaged, and sometimes a wait for a hearing. Those two numbers are nowhere near each other.
Timing moves them as well: the weeks after a named storm are the dearest of the year to buy a roof, and late winter the kindest.