Mobile Roof Pros: Leak Repair, Replacement & Commercial Roofing
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Mobile and Baldwin County, with the drainage measured before anything is quoted.
- ✓Licensed and insured Alabama roofing contractor
- ✓Free roof inspection including an attic-side moisture check
- ✓FORTIFIED-capable detailing for Mobile and Baldwin County homes
- ✓Written workmanship warranty on every reroof
Why Mobile Chooses Mobile Roof Pros
- ✓Gutters and downspouts are sized from the roof's drainage area, not copied from what was on the house before
- ✓Open 26-gauge metal valleys are standard, because a closed-cut valley asks a shingle lap to carry two planes of runoff
- ✓Every proposal names the underlayment by ASTM standard and coverage area, not just the shingle brand
- ✓Kick-out flashing goes on at every roof-to-wall termination, including the ones a previous roofer sealed over
- ✓We photograph the bare deck before dry-in, so you see what you paid to replace
- ✓If a coating would trap water in a wet assembly, we say so and quote the tear-off instead
How It Works
Attic First, Then the Roof
We start on the underside of the deck with a moisture meter and a light, because sheathing records where water actually entered and a ceiling stain does not. Valleys, penetrations, wall lines and the eave edge get read before anyone puts a ladder on the fascia.
A Scope That Names the Underlayment
Your written estimate names the underlayment by ASTM standard and coverage area, the valley treatment, the fastener type and spacing, the edge metal profile and the gutter and outlet sizing. If a proposal only names a shingle brand and a color, you have no way to compare it with ours.
Tear-Off, Deck Repair, Photographs
Every reroof goes to bare sheathing. Soft or delaminated panels are replaced, the deck is renailed with ring-shank fasteners, and we photograph the bare plane before dry-in so you can see exactly what you paid to replace and what we found underneath.
Drainage Sized, Then the Covering
Gutters, outlets and downspouts are sized from the drainage area above them, kick-out and step flashing go in at every wall termination, and only then does the covering go down. Final walk-through covers the details you cannot see from the ground, with photographs of each.
Our Roofing Services in Mobile, AL
Roof Replacement
A replacement here is judged by what goes on before the shingles. We specify decking, fasteners and the water barrier first, then choose a covering.
Roof Leak Repair
Most leaks we chase in Mobile are not holes in the field of a roof. They are terminations: a sidewall, a chimney, a pipe boot, a valley, a gutter that backs up under the shingle edge.
Storm Damage Restoration
After a named storm the order of operations matters more than the price. Dry the building in, document the loss, then scope the permanent repair.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail reaches Mobile, but it is not why roofs fail here. Before anyone sells you an impact-rated shingle for hail alone, we would rather tell you plainly what the risk in this market looks like and what the upgrade actually buys.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind is a genuine peril on this coast and we do not soft-pedal it. A tropical system does not have to remove a roof to ruin it.
Roof Inspections
An inspection here should start in the attic. What a roof looks like from a ladder tells you about granules and age.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers most of the housing stock here, and the differences that matter are not the color on the sample board. They are mat weight, the nailing zone, the sealant strip, and what the shingle is laid on top of.
Metal Roofing
Metal earns its price here on slope and water volume, not on looks. A standing seam panel carries an entire plane's runoff in continuous lengths with no horizontal laps, which is exactly what a high-rainfall roof wants from its covering.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon in Mobile and that is worth saying plainly. Most tile work we do is repair and relay on houses that already have it, plus the occasional new install on a structure that was framed from the start to carry the load.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope is where rainfall volume becomes an engineering problem instead of a detailing one. Water that a steep roof sheds in seconds sits on a shallow plane and finds every seam, so drainage design comes before any conversation about material.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
This is the page where we talk most customers out of something. A coating is a good product used in the wrong place more often than any other material we handle, and in a climate this wet the wrong place is very common.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation on this coast has a job most people never think about: keeping wind-driven rain out of the roof while still moving air through it. Those two goals fight each other, and the hardware you pick decides which one wins.
Skylights
A skylight is a hole in the roof with a curb and a flashing kit around it. Built properly it lasts as long as the roof does.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters in Mobile are not trim. They are the drainage system for 67 inches of rain a year, and the builder-standard package on most houses here was sized for a considerably drier city than this one.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit rot is the most common wood repair we do, and almost none of it starts with a roof leak. It comes from water that never made it into the gutter in the first place.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a masonry wall standing in the middle of a roof, and masonry holds water. On the Gulf Coast that combination produces more chronic, hard-to-find leaks than any other single feature on a house.
Emergency Tarping
Tarping is a repair with a short deadline. The point is not to cover a hole, it is to keep the deck and the framing dry until permanent work can be done properly, which on this coast can be weeks after a landfall.
Commercial Roofing
Mobile's commercial stock leans heavily low-slope: port and industrial buildings along the Mobile River, warehouses off the interstates, retail and office plate downtown, and a deep inventory of older built-up roofs that have been patched rather than replaced for decades. Very little of it is steep-slope.
Insurance Claim Help
We document roofs. We do not adjust claims, and anybody who promises you an approval before they have been on the roof is telling you something they cannot possibly know yet.
What Mobile Customers Say
They found a missing kick-out flashing behind our chimney chase that two other roofers had simply caulked over. Fixed the cause, replaced about eight feet of wall sheathing, and the ceiling has been dry through two seasons since.
Our gutters overflowed every time it rained hard, even right after cleaning. They measured the roof area, moved us to six-inch with three-by-four downspouts and added two outlets. No overflow since, and the fascia repair came in under the estimate.
Full tear-off on a 1970s ranch. They photographed the bare deck, showed me the six sheets of plywood that had gone soft, and put open metal in both valleys. The estimate named the underlayment by standard, which no other bid did.
They talked us out of coating our porch roof and explained exactly why it would trap moisture in the assembly. Ended up doing a modified bitumen tear-off with proper fall to the scupper instead. Honest people, and the work is tidy.
Mobile Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Mobile, Alabama, handling roof leak repair, full roof replacement, metal and low-slope systems, gutters, flashing and commercial roofing across Mobile and Baldwin County. Residential and commercial work, quoted from the deck upward rather than from the shingle down.
Mobile takes roughly 67 inches of rain a year across about 120 wet days, and that volume, not any single storm, decides how long a roof lasts here. So we specify the water barrier first: ASTM D1970 self-adhered membrane at eaves, valleys, sidewalls and every penetration, a sealed deck under the field, and open 26-gauge valley metal in place of a closed-cut shingle lap.
Then we size the drainage to match the roof feeding it. Six-inch K-style aluminum gutter with three-by-four downspouts, extra outlets on long runs, gutter apron behind the trough, and kick-out flashing wherever a roof plane dies into a wall. Architectural shingles, standing seam metal, TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen are all available here, and we will quote whichever the building actually needs. What goes underneath them is what we will argue with you about.
About Mobile Roof Pros in Mobile, AL
Mobile Roof Pros works the central Gulf Coast, from midtown Mobile and the north county suburbs out across the bay to Daphne, Fairhope and the Baldwin County beaches. We are licensed and insured, we carry a written workmanship warranty on every reroof, and our crews are ours rather than a rotating list of storm-chase subcontractors who leave after a season.
What we are known for is arguing about the parts of a roof nobody sees. The underlayment, the valley metal, the kick-out at the wall, the gutter apron behind the trough, the number of downspouts on a long elevation. In a city that takes 67 inches of rain a year, those details decide the outcome, and they are the first things a cheap bid removes to hit a number.
There are jobs we will turn down. If your roof has five good years left, we will tell you and quote the repair rather than the replacement. If a coating will trap water in an assembly that is already wet, we will not sell it. And if you want a low bid with felt underlayment, four nails a shingle and a closed-cut valley, we are the wrong company and we will say so on the first visit.
Recent Projects Across the central Gulf Coast
Service Areas
Mobile Roof Pros serves Mobile, AL and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Roofing in Mobile and Across Baldwin County
Mobile's commercial inventory runs to low-slope: port and industrial buildings along the Mobile River, distribution warehouses off Interstate 10 and Interstate 65, downtown office and retail plate, and a great many older built-up roofs that have been patched rather than replaced for twenty years.
We treat every one of them as a drainage system before we treat it as a membrane.
That means drains and scuppers sized for the area they serve, overflow provision set higher than the primary so a blockage announces itself before the deck takes the load, tapered polyisocyanurate to build fall where the structure never provided any, and crickets behind every curb.
Membrane and fastening are then specified against the building's exposure category, which on this coast changes noticeably between a site near the water and one forty miles inland.
We work over occupied buildings on a phased schedule with a watertight tie-in at the end of each shift, and we provide annual inspection reports and multi-year capital forecasts for owners running more than one property.
- ✓Sixty and eighty mil TPO, EPDM and two-ply SBS-modified bitumen systems
- ✓Half-inch high-density cover board under every single-ply membrane
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate and crickets to build positive drainage
- ✓Primary and overflow scupper and drain sizing to the served area
- ✓Wind uplift calculations by exposure category, provided with the proposal
- ✓Phased tear-off with a watertight tie-in at the close of every shift
- ✓Infrared or core-cut moisture surveys before any restoration coating
- ✓Annual inspection reports and multi-year roof capital forecasting
Frequently Asked Questions
How much rain does a roof in Mobile actually have to deal with?
Mobile averages around 67 inches of rain a year at Mobile Regional Airport, spread over roughly 120 days with measurable precipitation, and July alone averages close to eight inches. A 2007 study identified Mobile as the wettest city in the contiguous United States.
That is the number every detail on your roof has to survive, and it is why we argue about underlayment, valley metal and gutter sizing rather than shingle color. A roof assembly that would be more than adequate in Birmingham can be marginal here purely on volume.
Is the Strengthen Alabama Homes grant still funding FORTIFIED roofs?
Yes. The Strengthen Alabama Homes program provides up to 10,000 dollars toward bringing an eligible roof up to the IBHS FORTIFIED Roof standard on owner-occupied, single-family primary residences, with no income limits. It is funded by insurance industry fees rather than the state general fund.
Applications open on set quarterly dates with separate dates for Mobile County and Baldwin County, and grants are committed first come, first served, so the portal can close within hours. We can tell you whether your house is likely to qualify before you apply.
Why do you insist on open metal valleys instead of closed-cut?
A valley carries the combined runoff of two roof planes through one channel. A closed-cut valley asks a shingle overlap and a sealant line to handle that volume. It works in a dry climate, and plenty of roofers here install it because it is faster and uses less metal.
Against Mobile rainfall we would rather put down 26-gauge open valley metal with hemmed edges and a center rib, which moves water without asking any adhesive to hold. It costs a little more and it is the detail we see fail most often on roofs we did not build.
My gutters overflow in every hard rain. Are they just clogged?
Sometimes, but on this coast the more common answer is that they are undersized. Most builder packages fit five-inch gutter with two-by-three downspouts and one outlet at each end of a run. A six-inch trough carries close to twice the water, and a three-by-four downspout well over twice as much. If your gutters overflow the day after they were cleaned, the problem is capacity, not debris, and adding outlets is usually cheaper than replacing the whole run.
Should I pay extra for impact-resistant shingles in Mobile?
Only if you want them for the reasons that apply here. A UL 2218 Class 4 shingle has a heavier mat and generally better sealant performance under wind, which is worth something on this coast. Buying one specifically for hail protection, though, is buying a product argument written for Texas and Colorado.
We will quote Class 4 gladly, and we will tell you it is a wind and durability upgrade in this market rather than a hail one. Some carriers also offer a premium credit, which is worth checking first.
How long should a roof last in Mobile?
Twenty to twenty-five years is a fair expectation from a well-installed architectural shingle roof here, and standing seam metal will run considerably longer. The two things that shorten it are an attic with blocked or painted-shut soffit intake, which leaves the deck running hot and damp, and drainage that overwhelms the perimeter details in every heavy rain.
Both are fixable and both cost far less than the years they take off the roof. We flag them at the inspection whether or not you buy a roof from us.