We are a roofing company working in Evansville with 85 completed jobs across 36 addresses here. Most of those started as a roof and became more, because when the roof needs doing after a storm the siding and gutters usually do too — and the order you do them in matters more than most homeowners are told.
On a whole-exterior project the sequence is not arbitrary. Four reasons the roof leads.
It falls downward
Tear-off drops shingle, nails and granule onto everything below it. Doing siding first means covering brand new siding in debris and hoping nothing scratches it. Roof first is not a preference, it is basic sequencing.
Where roof meets gutter
The drip edge, fascia and the top course of siding all meet at the eave. That junction is detailed once, by whoever is there last — which means the roofer and the gutter crew need to be the same project, not two calls three months apart.
Protecting the house
Until the roof is sound, everything else is finishing work on a building that is still taking water. If the roof is compromised there is no sensible argument for doing anything else first.
Scope before schedule
On a claim the whole scope should be approved before any of it starts. Starting the roof while the siding is still under discussion weakens your position, because the visible evidence is now gone. Get the documentation complete first, then build.
Residential and commercial, across Madison, Dane County, & Southern Wisconsin.
Full tear-off to the deck, decking inspected sheet by sheet. Most installs finish in a single day.
Documented for your insurer as part of a whole-house inspection rather than a roof-only one.
Leaks, failed pipe boots, missing shingles, flashing pulled loose at a chimney.
Balanced intake and exhaust. The fix for ice damming is almost never more shingles.
26-gauge standing seam with concealed fasteners. Sheds snow instead of holding it.
We are further out than most of our markets and we will give you a real time rather than a vague one.
Our pricing does not change because you are further from our shop. The honest trade-off for being 28 miles out is scheduling flexibility rather than cost — we batch Evansville work where we can, and we will tell you at the estimate what that means for your dates.
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Yes, and it is not a close call. Tear-off drops debris onto everything below it, so siding installed first gets covered in shingle and nails. The roof also has to be sound before anything else matters, since everything else is finishing work on a building that is still taking water.
After the full scope is documented and ideally approved, not before. Once the roof is off, the evidence for everything else is harder to establish. Getting the whole house inspected and scoped first is what protects the rest of the claim.
No. Our pricing is the same in Evansville as it is in Madison. What being further out actually affects is scheduling — we batch work in this area where we can, and we will be straight with you at the estimate about what that means for your dates rather than promising next week and delivering in three.
Roof is typically a day. Siding runs three to seven. Windows are usually a day. Gutters go last, after the fascia is sorted. A combined project on a typical Evansville home is one to two weeks of active work, scheduled so the house is never left open.
Wisconsin allows two layers and we generally will not do it. You cannot inspect the decking through a layover, the second layer runs hotter and fails early, and the tear-off you avoid today gets more expensive later.
Generally yes for roof replacement. Evansville is in Rock County rather than Dane, and the City of Evansville runs its own permit process. We pull it as part of the job.
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