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Roofing in Columbia and Boone County

Mid Missouri sits where the plains storms run out of room. Hail in spring, straight line wind in summer, an ice storm every few winters, and humid air in the attic all year. This site explains what each of those does to a Columbia roof and what the work costs here.

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  • Columbia issues a RE-ROOF permit of its own
  • Missouri does not license roofers, so the contract is your protection
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Columbia’s weather is not extreme. It is varied, which is harder on a roof. A single Boone County roof can take hail in April, seventy mile an hour straight line wind in July, a week of ice in January, and then spend August under humid air that never quite lets the north slope dry out. Very few roofing markets ask a shingle to do all four.

What that means in practice

Spring and early summer is hail and wind. Mid Missouri sits at the eastern edge of the country’s serious hail corridor. The storms that reach here have often been running for hours, and what arrives is frequently a mature system producing straight line wind as well as stones. Wind damage here tends to be a strip of shingles lifted along a windward rake, not a whole roof.

Winter is ice, occasionally. Missouri ice storms are not annual and they are not trivial. Freezing rain loads gutters and branches, gutters pull away from fascia, and a blocked gutter turns into an ice dam that backs water up under the first courses of shingle.

The rest of the year is moisture. This is the one people miss. Humid continental summers and a north slope that stays shaded grow algae and moss, and inside the attic the same humidity condenses on the underside of the decking whenever ventilation is poor. A roof can fail from the inside here in a way it simply cannot in a dry climate.

The local rules worth knowing

Columbia issues a reroof permit, and it is common enough to be its own work class in the city’s permit reporting. Building and Site Development sits at 701 East Broadway and reviews to the 2018 International Codes package.

Missouri does not license roofing contractors, and Columbia does not either, although it does certify electricians, plumbers, gas fitters and mechanical craftsmen. So there is no licence number to check. What you can do instead is insist on a written contract with the scope spelled out, ask to see a current certificate of insurance sent directly from the insurer rather than a photocopy, and confirm the permit was actually pulled.

Missouri law also has something to say about storm work. Under RSMo 407.725 a contractor may not offer to pay or rebate an insurance deductible to the insured or to anyone connected with the property, and gift cards, prizes and refer a neighbour bounties fall under the same heading. If somebody at your door is offering one, that is a useful signal about everything else.

What this site is

One number, one independent roofing company working mid Missouri. They inspect, they price and they sign with you. The cost page uses local numbers, and how this site makes money is on the record if you would rather know before you call.

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