Eau Claire Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Elk Mound, WI — Dunn County, population 985. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Elk Mound homes and businesses.
Elk Mound property owners near the rural mail carriers memorial tower, Mound Hill Park count on Eau Claire Roof Pros for roof replacement and repair in Elk Mound. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Eau Claire to every job in Elk Mound, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 832-3078 for a free roofing estimate in Elk Mound, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Elk Mound, WI
On 24 September 2019 at 5:45 in the evening a tornado touched down on the south side of Elk Mound near the intersection of Interstate 94 and South Holly Road. In the village it was rated EF0 and took the roof off a barn. It crossed the interstate, ran into Chippewa County, and strengthened there to EF3.
The Chippewa County leg was 4.72 miles long and 725 yards wide, injured three people and caused three million dollars of damage, with the worst of it in Wheaton Township just east of the village around County Road M and Highway 29. The same storm, four miles apart, went from a barn roof to entire groves of trees.
That is the argument for not judging a roof by what the storm was called over your own address. We survey slope by slope and we photograph what we find, because an EF0 rating in the village does not mean the wind field over your ridge was an EF0 wind field.
The median year built in Elk Mound is 1979. Wisconsin's Uniform Dwelling Code took effect on 1 June 1980, so this village sits almost exactly on the code's own date line: 47.4 percent of its 409 units postdate 1980 and the rest do not. Half the roofs here are governed by SPS 321.28 and half by nothing at all.
For the newer half, SPS 320.04 (2) pulls alterations into the code, so the layover bans in SPS 321.28 (6) and the underlayment and fastener rules apply. For the older half, SPS 320.05 (1) exempts the dwelling and its alterations, and the only standard is the one written on your contract.
The Village of Elk Mound and the Town of Elk Mound each hold their own delegated authority on the state list. Dunn County itself holds none. All thirty Dunn County municipalities took the delegation individually, so there is no county building department to appeal to here, only your own village office.
Electricity is the main heating fuel in 39.9 percent of homes, second highest of anywhere we cover, and 10.3 percent of the housing is manufactured and therefore built to the federal HUD standard rather than to SPS 320. Mound Hill Park and the rural mail carriers memorial tower sit on high ground where rake and ridge details fail that hold on the flat below.
Our roofing scope in Elk Mound
Eau Claire Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Elk Mound that we do in Eau Claire — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Low-slope roofs in Eau Claire are porches, additions, dormer shed roofs, garage extensions and the back half of a lot of older houses on the north side. They fail differently from steep slopes, and in this climate they usually fail from underneath.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail in west central Wisconsin is a real risk and a badly overstated one, usually in the same conversation. We test for it the boring way, with chalk squares and soft metals, and we tell homeowners no more often than yes.
- Insurance Claim Help — The most useful thing we do on claims in this city is tell people when not to file. A denied claim stays on your loss history, and a large share of the winter ceiling damage we get called to is not a covered peril in the first place.
- Metal Roofing — Metal is a good roof for this climate and a bad one to install carelessly, because a steel panel is the coldest surface a house can present to its own attic. The panel tracks outdoor air, and in February the underside runs colder than shingles ever do.
- Roof Leak Repair — Every leak call we take between January and April gets the same first question, and it is not about the roof. It is about the weather in the two days before the stain appeared, because that answer sorts the real leaks from the frost melts before anybody climbs anything.
- Roof Skylight Installation — Skylights get blamed for more winter water in this city than they deserve, and they also cause more of it than their owners realize. Both things are true at once, which makes the diagnosis worth doing properly before anybody buys glass.
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About Elk Mound, WI — and why local matters here
Elk Mound sits in Dunn County with a population of roughly 985, close enough to Eau Claire that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the rural mail carriers memorial tower, Mound Hill Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Elk Mound properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Dunn County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Elk Mound
Call (888) 832-3078 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Elk Mound, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
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Popular services in Elk Mound: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Colfax, WI and the Chippewa Valley.