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Roofing across the St. Louis market

John Beal Roofing has worked on St. Louis-area roofs for three generations. Call (314) 429-6000 — answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year, including weekends and holidays. Free inspections are photographed slope by slope and written up with an itemized price, whether or not you hire us.

What St. Louis weather does to a roof

Spring is when St. Louis roofs get tested. From April into June, storm lines track up the Missouri and Mississippi river corridors and arrive here with hail and straight-line wind — the two forces that end an asphalt roof early. Hail bruises the mat under the shingle surface, knocking loose the granules that block UV. Wind works the edges, lifting the first course along rakes and eaves until the seal strip breaks.

The May 2025 tornado was the hardest recent reminder. Damage ran through city and county neighborhoods heavily enough that the City of St. Louis stood up a dedicated recovery permitting process for rebuilding. Storms like that produce two waves of roof problems: the obvious structural damage, and the quieter damage on streets a few blocks over, where a roof looks intact from the ground but has lost enough granule cover to fail years ahead of schedule.

Winter does slower damage. St. Louis crosses the freezing mark repeatedly between December and March, and every cycle pushes water into hairline cracks in aging shingles, freezes, expands and widens them. Add July heat and river-valley humidity baking a poorly ventilated attic from underneath, and a roof rated for thirty years quietly becomes a twenty-year roof.

The roofs we work on in St. Louis

The housing here is not one thing, and that changes how a roof gets built. In the older city neighborhoods we work on steep-pitch brick two-stories, many with low-slope rear additions and porch roofs tacked on later. Those transitions — steep to flat, original structure to addition — are the single most common leak point we find in St. Louis, because the flashing where two different roof systems meet is where the original installer cut the corner.

Century-old homes also tend to hide their own surprise: board decking rather than plywood, sometimes under two or three layers of old roofing. That is not a problem, but it is a different job than a tear-off in a Wentzville subdivision, and any honest estimate has to account for the possibility of deck replacement before the crew opens the roof.

Out in St. Louis County and St. Charles County the stock shifts to mid-century ranches and newer subdivisions with simpler rooflines and architectural shingles. Those roofs usually fail on schedule rather than early, which means the conversation is about timing and ventilation rather than emergency repair.

What we handle here

• Full roof replacement — asphalt, metal, tile, slate and cedar shake
• Roof repair and leak diagnosis, with same-day emergency tarping
• Hail and wind damage documented for your insurance claim — we meet your adjuster on site at no cost
• Commercial systems — TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen and standing seam metal
• Gutters, gutter guards, fascia and soffit

How a roof replacement runs in St. Louis

A replacement here follows the same sequence whether the house is a Kirkwood bungalow or a Chesterfield two-story:

1. A free inspection, photographed slope by slope, written up with an itemized price whether or not you hire us.
2. Permitting. Municipal requirements vary across the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, St. Charles County and the Metro East, and we pull what your address requires.
3. Tear-off to the deck, so nothing gets buried. Any decking that is soft, delaminated or rotten gets replaced before new material goes down.
4. Ice-and-water barrier at eaves and in valleys, synthetic underlayment across the field, and new flashing — not reused flashing — at every wall, chimney and penetration.
5. Shingles installed to the manufacturer's nailing pattern, then ridge ventilation balanced against intake at the soffit so the attic can actually breathe.
6. Magnet sweep of the yard, driveway and street, and a final walkthrough with you before the crew leaves.

Most St. Louis-area jurisdictions require a permit for a residential tear-off, and requirements differ street to street across city, county and Illinois-side municipalities. We handle that paperwork as part of the job rather than leaving it with you.

Storm damage and insurance claims

Hail and wind claims are routine here, and the part that decides them is documentation. We photograph the bruising, the mat damage, the soft metals and the collateral evidence an adjuster looks for, and we meet your adjuster on the roof at no cost so the damage is reviewed against what is actually up there.

If a carrier approves a repair where the roof needs replacement, or leaves out code-required items, that is a supplement conversation — and having the original slope-by-slope photos is what makes it a short one.

Common questions about roofing in St. Louis

Services in St. Louis

Commercial and low-slope buildings in this market have their own dedicated resource: CommercialRoofingStLouis.com, covering TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen systems, maintenance programs and 24/7 emergency response for property managers across the St. Louis metro.

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Cities we cover in the St. Louis market

St. Louis, MOO'Fallon, MOSt. Charles, MOSt. Peters, MOFlorissant, MOWentzville, MOChesterfield, MOBelleville, ILWildwood, MOUniversity City, MOO'Fallon, ILBallwin, MOKirkwood, MOMaryland Heights, MOGranite City, ILEdwardsville, ILAlton, ILHazelwood, MOWebster Groves, MOArnold, MO

Why families here call us first

We are family-owned, three generations in, and we still answer our own phones. Every roof we install carries a lifetime workmanship warranty, and the Best Value Guarantee is in writing: find a better value on comparable work and we pay you $200. When Mother Nature's at her worst, we're at our best.