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.
- ✓Licensed and insured Georgia roofing contractor
- ✓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
- ✓We tell you at the first visit whether your address needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, in writing, before any pricing
- ✓Salvaged slate, matching tile and flat-lock pans kept on hand so a small repair on a protected roof stays a small repair
- ✓Attic moisture readings on every inspection, because a good share of Savannah leak calls turn out to be condensation
- ✓Half-round and K-style gutter both quoted, with an honest explanation of which profile suits your building
- ✓Perimeter and edge detailing specified for coastal wind rather than the manufacturer's inland minimum
- ✓We decline work we do not believe in, including shingle coatings and aluminum wrap over historic cornices
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.
Our Roofing Services in Savannah, GA
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Roof Inspections
An inspection in Savannah has to produce more than a verdict. On a protected building it becomes the evidence file behind a Certificate of Appropriateness application, so it needs to identify materials, document existing conditions and photograph elevations well enough that a board member can see what is there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings are oversold, and in a damp coastal city they are oversold with consequences. We install them, we specify them where they earn their keep, and we spend a fair amount of time talking Savannah owners out of them.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the page where Savannah reaches a different answer than almost anywhere else, and the reason is the review process rather than the weather. On a protected roof, the vents everyone else installs are frequently not available to you.
Skylights
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.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters are where the wrong choice shows fastest on an old Savannah house. The profile is visible from the street, it sits directly against the cornice, and on a protected building it is one of the details the review process pays attention to.
Fascia & Soffit
On most houses the eave is trim. On an old Savannah house it is architecture.
Chimney Flashing
Savannah has an enormous number of masonry chimneys, most of them laid in soft hand-made brick with lime mortar, and most of the leaks attributed to them are flashing leaks rather than chimney leaks. The distinction matters because the two are fixed by different trades at very different prices.
Emergency Tarping
Tarping is a holding action and should be judged as one. The purpose is to stop water entering the building tonight, without creating a second problem that somebody has to undo when the permanent repair is designed and approved.
Commercial Roofing
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.
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.
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.
Savannah Roof Pros handles roof repair, roof replacement, metal roofing and low-slope commercial work across Savannah and the wider Coastal Empire. We work on protected buildings inside the city's designated districts and on ordinary suburban roofs in Pooler, Georgetown and Richmond Hill, and we quote the two differently because they are genuinely different jobs with different constraints.
Our crews install architectural laminate shingle, standing-seam and flat-lock metal, clay tile relay work, and TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen on low-slope roofs. We repair leaks at the details where they actually start, rebuild step and counterflashing into soft historic masonry, hang half-round and K-style gutter, and restore boxed cornices to their original profile.
What sets the work apart here is knowing what your roof is allowed to be. If your address falls under the Historic District Board of Review, the certificate comes before the building permit, and the material and profile you choose are not entirely yours to choose. We tell you which side of that line you are on at the very first visit, in writing, before you have spent anything at all.
About Savannah Roof Pros in Savannah, GA
Savannah Roof Pros works across Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Liberty counties, on roofs that range from original terne standing seam downtown to laminate shingle in subdivisions that were pine woods a decade ago. Both deserve the same standard of installation. Only one of them needs a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and knowing the difference is most of what we bring.
We are licensed and insured Georgia roofing contractors, we carry full liability and workers' compensation cover, and every installation is backed by a written workmanship warranty in addition to whatever the manufacturer provides. Our crews are our own. We photograph the deck once it is open so you see exactly what we saw before it was covered again.
There are jobs you should not hire us for. If your house is outside the districts, the roof is eight years old and the problem is a single cracked pipe boot, that is a small repair and you should not let anyone talk you into a replacement, including us. If you are in Glennville or Claxton and need a minor repair, a roofer closer to you will serve you better on response time, and we will say so.
Recent Projects Across the Coastal Empire
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
Does my Savannah roof need Historic District Board of Review approval?
It depends on the address, not the age of the house. The city has several designated districts, including the downtown landmark district, the Victorian district, Cuyler-Brownville, Thomas Square, Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent and Pin Point.
Inside them, a material change to the appearance of the exterior requires a Certificate of Appropriateness, and that certificate comes before the building permit rather than after it. Repairing in kind is generally treated differently from changing a visible material or the roofline.
We confirm your status at the first visit and put it in writing so you can budget the time as well as the money.
How long does a roof last in Savannah?
Less than the wrapper promises, and the reason is climate rather than product. Heavy ultraviolet load, high summer deck temperatures and long humid stretches all shorten asphalt life, so plan on the lower end of any stated range. Standing-seam and flat-lock metal do far better and routinely pass fifty years when the underlayment beneath them was detailed properly.
Original clay tile and slate outlast everything under them, which is why those roofs are usually relaid rather than replaced. Coastal exposure matters too: a house near the Wilmington River ages faster than one the same age out in Pooler.
Can I put a ridge vent on a house in the historic district?
Often not, and that surprises people. A ridge vent changes the roofline, which is a defined term in the city ordinance and precisely what the review board examines. On a street-facing slope in the landmark district that application is a hard one.
The workable answers here are intake rather than exhaust: vented drip edge, restored soffit vents behind the original cornice, and clearing insulation out of the eave bays. Where no visible venting is permissible, an unvented assembly with foam at the underside of the deck solves the problem without any hardware appearing on the roof at all.
Is my roof damage from hail?
Probably not. Savannah sees hail rarely and in small stones, and it is not the peril that drives roofing work here the way it does in Texas or Colorado.
What usually gets called hail damage on a Savannah roof is blistering in the asphalt mat, scuffing from foot traffic, ordinary granule loss from age, or fasteners backing out and tenting the tab above them. Real hail leaves a random rather than patterned scatter, shows on the soft metals first, and bruises the mat behind the granules.
We will document genuine hail properly and tell you plainly when it is something else.
What does a roof replacement cost in Savannah?
The honest answer starts with which kind of building you have. A straightforward architectural shingle replacement on a Southside, Georgetown or Pooler house is priced on square footage, pitch, layers to remove and deck condition, and it is 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 not close. We will tell you which category your address falls into before you set a budget.
Do you tarp roofs after a storm, and how fast?
Yes, and we treat it as a holding action rather than a repair. Emergency stabilization to stop water entering is expected everywhere, including inside the districts, and it does not wait on the review process.
How we fasten matters: we will not screw battens through sound slate, standing seam or original clay tile to hold a tarp down, because that puts dozens of new holes in a roof that failed in one place.
Ballasted lines, anchors at the ridge and edge metal, and fastening only into already-damaged areas take longer and do not cost you a second repair.