Overland Park Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Roof replacement, leak repair, storm and hail damage work across Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Leawood and Shawnee. Free inspections, written scopes, permits pulled.
- ✓Kansas registration number and Johnson County license on every estimate
- ✓Permit pulled on every job that needs one
- ✓No deposit until materials are on your driveway
- ✓We will not touch your deductible
Overland Park Roof Pros handles roof replacement, roof repair, storm and hail damage restoration and commercial low-slope roofing across Overland Park and the rest of Johnson County. We work on asphalt shingle, metal, tile and single-ply membrane roofs, residential and commercial, and we write everything down before anyone climbs a ladder.
What makes this market different is that Kansas checks roofers twice, in two places, for two different things. The state registers them through the Attorney General's office, which proves insurance and taxes. Johnson County licenses them, which proves somebody passed a test. Most homeowners have never been told there are two numbers, let alone that they mean different things. Ask the next roofer at your door for both.
So we lead with both. Our Kansas registration certificate and our Johnson County Class DR roofing license go on the first page of every estimate we write, alongside a scope that names materials and quantities rather than describing a roof in adjectives. Look us up, then decide. That is the whole pitch, and it holds up better after a hailstorm than a discount does.
Why Overland Park Chooses Overland Park Roof Pros
- ✓We hand you both numbers up front. The Kansas Attorney General registration certificate and the Johnson County Class DR roofing license are on the first page of every estimate, so you can look us up before you talk price.
- ✓We pull the permit. Kansas writes a roofer's registration number onto every permit issued, which makes the permit the one record of your roof that a third party created and that outlives any company.
- ✓We take payment on delivery, not on signature. Abandoning a job after taking a deposit is named in Kansas statute as grounds for revoking a registration, and we would rather not ask you to trust us on that point.
- ✓We turn down coatings on shingle roofs. It is the fastest, least verifiable job in roofing and the one a departing crew most wants to sell, so we decline it and explain why.
- ✓We separate the tarp from the contract. Emergency work gets its own written scope and its own price, and nothing in it commits you to who does the permanent repair.
- ✓We write down when the answer is no. If a storm did not damage your roof, you get that in a dated report with photographs and we leave without selling you anything.
About Overland Park Roof Pros in Overland Park, KS
Overland Park Roof Pros is a roofing company built around a fairly narrow idea: in Johnson County, the hardest part of getting a good roof is not the roofing, it is picking the contractor. Hail brings crews here every spring, some of them excellent and some of them gone by autumn, and homeowners are asked to tell the difference in a driveway conversation.
So we organized the company around being checkable. Our Kansas Attorney General registration certificate and our Johnson County Class DR license are on every estimate. We pull permits on work that needs them. We do not take money before materials arrive, we will not go near your deductible, and we write down the times the honest answer is that nothing is wrong.
When not to hire us: if you want the cheapest number on the street, we will lose that comparison and we should. If you want a coating sprayed over a hail-damaged shingle roof, we will decline the job.
If you have a tile roof and need it done properly, there are only a few crews in this market who should touch it, and if we are backed up we will tell you to wait for one of them rather than take the work.
Our Roofing Services in Overland Park, KS
Roof Replacement
A replacement in Overland Park runs through two separate government records, and neither one is your contract. The first is a Kansas roofing contractor registration number issued by the Attorney General.
Roof Leak Repair
Nobody knocks on doors selling a $600 leak repair. That single fact makes this the one page on our site where the storm-chaser warning mostly doesn't apply, and where hiring a small local outfit is often the right call rather than the risky one.
Storm Damage Restoration
Kansas wrote the definition of a storm chaser into its statutes, and most homeowners have never read it. It's three questions long, it's objective, and you can ask it on your own doorstep in about a minute.
Hail Damage Roofing
A workmanship warranty is worth precisely what the company behind it is worth. In Kansas there's a date that tells you something about whether that company will still be here, and almost nobody checks it.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind damage is the job the door-knocking crews least want, and that tells you something useful. It's usually partial, usually a repair, and usually a few hundred dollars.
Roof Inspections
Check the registration number before anyone gets on your roof, not after. Once a stranger is up there unsupervised, you have no way to tell damage they found from damage they made, and that asymmetry is the entire business model of the free storm inspection.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
There are three different pieces of paper a shingle contractor can wave at you, they mean three different things, and companies count on you not knowing the difference. Learn it once and you'll never be confused by a roofing pitch again.
Metal Roofing
Metal is where the competence gap does the most damage, because a bad standing seam roof looks perfect for about two years. Shingles announce a bad install fairly quickly.
Tile Roofing
Tile is rare in Johnson County, and that rarity is the whole story. If you own one of the few concrete or clay tile roofs around Leawood, Mission Hills or the older custom pockets of Overland Park, your problem isn't finding a roofer.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Most low-slope roofing in Overland Park isn't a flat commercial building. It's the porch roof, the addition over a family room, or the dormer connection on a split-level, and it's where the majority of residential leaks in this city start.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We turn this job down more than we sell it. If someone has offered to spray a coating over your hail-damaged asphalt shingle roof in Overland Park, we'd like you to say no, and we're not going to pretend otherwise to keep the appointment.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the easiest line item in roofing to bill and not deliver, because you can't see it from the ground and you'll never climb up to count. So here's how to check the work yourself, before you pay the final invoice.
Skylights
Don't add a skylight during a storm-funded reroof. It's the single most common regret we hear about on this street, and the reason is that the decision gets made in a week when you're already saying yes to things.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters are the one part of this list where the number you should check might not be a roofing number at all, and knowing that saves you from asking the wrong question. It's the one page here where the honest answer starts with: it depends on the scope.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit ride along on storm scopes more than almost any other component, and for a straightforward reason: nobody can verify them from the ground, and everybody agrees they look bad after a hailstorm. That doesn't make it fraud.
Chimney Flashing
If a roofer's answer to your chimney leak is a tube of sealant, you're looking at the signature move of a company that doesn't plan to be around when it fails. Caulk on a chimney buys about two years, and two years is a comfortable distance.
Emergency Tarping
The tarp is the wedge. That's the thing to hold onto at ten at night with a bedroom ceiling dripping onto the bed, because it's the moment this industry is built to take advantage of, and knowing it changes what you sign.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial owners run into a registry result that looks alarming and often isn't, so it's worth explaining before you fire a good general contractor over it. Your GC may show as Exempt in the Attorney General's roofing directory rather than In Good Standing.
Insurance Claim Help
Don't sign an assignment of benefits. Not to us, and not to the company at your door.
Commercial Roofing in Overland Park and Across Johnson and Wyandotte Counties
We maintain and replace low-slope roofs on office buildings, retail centers, restaurants and light industrial space across Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe and into Kansas City, Kansas. Most of that work is single-ply membrane, and most of what we recommend is maintenance rather than replacement, because a documented service program buys years for a fraction of a tear-off.
Building owners should know that a general contractor may legitimately show as Exempt in the state roofing directory, but the roofing subcontractor still has to hold a valid registration certificate, and the general contractor is supposed to keep a copy of it available on site.
- ✓Mechanically fastened and fully adhered TPO and EPDM single-ply systems
- ✓Modified bitumen and built-up roof repair, recover and tear-off
- ✓Silicone and acrylic restoration coatings over sound, dry membrane
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate to correct ponding at deck low spots
- ✓Perimeter edge metal, curb flashing and rooftop unit penetrations
- ✓Drain, scupper and internal gutter clearing on a scheduled program
- ✓Twice-yearly inspections with a written condition log and photographs
- ✓Tear-offs sequenced around your operating hours and tenant access
Recent Projects Across the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro
How It Works
- Both Numbers, Then the Roof. Before we schedule anything, you get our Kansas registration certificate number and our Johnson County license number in writing, so you can check the Attorney General's roofing directory and the county's records yourself. It takes about a minute. We would rather you did it while we are standing there than after you have signed something.
- On Foot, Every Slope, Attic First. We start in the attic, because that is where a roof tells the truth: daylight at the deck, staining on rafters, damp insulation, blocked soffit intake. Then we walk every slope we can stand on safely and use a pole camera for the rest. Drone images supplement the inspection, they do not replace it.
- A Written Scope With Quantities. You get a dated report with photographs, a scope that names the shingle, the underlayment, the flashing metal and the fastener pattern, and separate line items for anything with a shorter life than the covering. If we think the honest answer is a repair rather than a replacement, that is what the scope says.
- Permit, Build, Then Payment. We pull the permit, which puts our registration number on a county record of your job. Materials arrive, you pay the deposit then and not before, and we build it. Final payment comes after a walkthrough with you, magnet sweep done, and the workmanship warranty in your hand in writing.
What Overland Park Customers Say
Third company we had out after the May hail. The first two wanted to talk replacement before they got on the roof. These guys walked it, found damage on two slopes and not the other two, and wrote it up that way. They also handed us their state registration number and told us to go look it up, which nobody else did.
Had a leak over the kitchen for two winters and two different roofers had caulked the chimney. This crew explained that the counterflashing had never been cut into the mortar, showed me photos of the surface-caulked metal, and did it properly. Cost more than a tube of sealant. Has been dry for a year and a half.
They talked me out of a coating a door-to-door outfit had quoted me, then told me my roof had about seven years left and I did not need anything yet. Wrote it up with pictures and did not charge me. When it does need replacing I am not calling anyone else.
Pulled the permit without me asking, which I later found out is not a given around here. Scope listed the shingle, the underlayment, the valley membrane and the nail pattern instead of just saying new roof. Deposit was not due until the shingles were sitting in my driveway. Straightforward from start to finish.
Service Areas
Overland Park Roof Pros serves Overland Park, KS and surrounding communities including:
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a roofer need a license in Overland Park, or just Kansas registration?
Both, and they are not the same thing. Kansas registration comes from the Attorney General under the Kansas Roofing Registration Act and requires liability insurance of at least $500,000, workers compensation, a tax clearance letter and a fee. It does not require an exam. Overland Park uses the Johnson County contractor licensing program, and roofing there is a Class DR license, which does require passing an ICC exam at 75 percent. Ask for both numbers.
How do I check whether a roofing company is really registered in Kansas?
The Attorney General's office runs a public roofing registration directory you can search by company name. A result will read In Good Standing, Exempt, or Revoked. Exempt does not mean a roofer was let off; it means a general contractor filed an affidavit that roofing is a minority of its project work and that it does not sell door to door. The same office also publishes enforcement actions taken against roofers.
A crew knocked on my door after the hailstorm. What should I ask them?
Kansas defines a nonresident contractor in statute, and the definition gives you three questions. Has this company established and maintained a place of business as a roofing contractor in Kansas for the preceding year, does it claim residency in another state, and has it filed a Kansas resident income tax return in the preceding year. Being a nonresident is not illegal, but the answers tell you who you are dealing with.
Should I sign an assignment of benefits so the roofer handles my claim?
We would say no. An assignment hands a contractor your rights under your own policy. Kansas requires the document to carry a capitalized 14-point notice, requires the contractor to send your insurer a copy within three business days, and gives you five business days to cancel. It also makes the assignment void if the contractor is not in compliance with the Kansas roofing registration act, which is a problem you inherit.
Do I really need a permit to replace a roof in Overland Park?
Yes, and you want one. Kansas law puts a roofing contractor's registration number on the permit application and writes it onto each permit issued, so the permit is an independent record of who worked on your house. Roofing without a required permit is listed in the statute as grounds for revoking a registration. It also matters at resale, when a buyer's inspector asks for proof the roof was replaced.
Is it worth filing a claim for a few missing shingles after a windstorm?
Usually not, and we will say so. A dozen blown tabs on a nine-year-old roof is a repair measured in hundreds of dollars, and it sits well under most deductibles here. We would rather hand-seal the courses, correct the nailing pattern that let it start, and leave your claim history alone. If a company will only talk about full replacement after a wind event, that is telling you something about how it makes money.