Residential
Residential roofing across Ascension Parish
Installation, repair and full replacement on homes in Gonzales, Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes. Free evaluations happen within 24 to 48 hours.
Chapter 01
The five things a roof does before it leaks
By the time water is coming through a ceiling, the roof has usually been telling you for a season or two. Water drips and stains on the ceiling are the late signal. The earlier ones are shingles that have started to curl or blister, decking that has begun to sag along a plane, and a power bill that has climbed without the house doing anything different.
The one almost everybody misses is granules. Asphalt shingles shed their granules as they age, and those granules end up in the gutter. Most homeowners scoop that grit out, assume it is dirt, and think nothing of it. It is the surface of the roof, and the rate it is coming off is a fair measure of how much roof is left.
If you recognise two or more of those on your own house, that is the point to have somebody up there. It is also the cheapest moment in the whole sequence.
A completed shingle roof on a two-storey home with stone accents, finished by Cypress Roofing
Inside 24 to 48 hours, then usually one day on the roof
A free evaluation is booked within 24 to 48 hours of the call, and it means a roofing contractor physically on the roof checking for damage and missing shingles, not a look from the driveway. Damage is regularly confined to one plane, one valley or the flashing around a chimney, and none of those are visible from the ground.
In many cases a roofing project is finished in a single day. Larger or more complex roofs, the ones with several gables, valleys and penetrations, take two days or more, and we would rather say so at the evaluation than discover it on day two. We install Atlas, CertainTeed and Owens Corning shingles, and we will explain the difference between them for your roof rather than in general.
The office is at 13119 Airline Highway in Gonzales and the number is (225) 238-6147. Whoever comes out is who you will be dealing with.
Chapter 03
Twice a year, and what the warranty actually covers
We recommend an inspection at least twice a year. Age matters on its own: a typical roof lasts 25 to 50 years, so a roof past the twenty-year mark deserves looking at whether or not anything has obviously failed. In this parish the storm season does its own accelerated ageing on top of that.
Every roof we install carries a two-year workmanship warranty, which covers our work rather than the manufacturer's product. The team behind it has over 70 years of combined roofing experience.
The other thing worth knowing is what the job leaves behind. One customer put it better than we would: when the crew finished there was not a speck of material left, not even one nail. That is the standard, and it is worth asking any roofer you talk to what theirs is.
Cypress Roofing, Louisiana Contractor License #75979, two-year workmanship warranty. Call (225) 238-6147.