Roof replacement, repair, and storm claims for homes and businesses across the Chippewa Valley. Free written estimates.
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Workmanship warranty in writing: 5 to 10 years on a replacement, 5 years on a full repair, 1 year on a patch.
Insured: general liability and workers' compensation, with certificates available before work starts.
Eau Claire Roofing Connection puts on new roofs and repairs the ones that have years left in them. That means asphalt shingle and standing seam metal on houses, and TPO or EPDM membrane on flat commercial roofs. When a repair will hold, we quote the repair, even though a replacement would pay us more.
We work out of Eau Claire and cover the Chippewa Valley to about 25 miles out, from Altoona and Lake Hallie next door to Chippewa Falls, Menomonie, and Bloomer at the far edge.
Asphalt roofs here reach the end of their life at 18 to 25 years, and the signals are granules in the gutters, curling edges, and a third leak in a third place. The estimate includes a decking allowance because what is under the shingles stays unknown until they are off; half the city's housing units went up before 1980, and the pre-war houses around Randall Park and in the Third Ward usually need some sheets replaced. The manufacturer's warranty, 25 to 50 years, covers the shingle, non-prorated for the first ten years on the major architectural lines, then prorated. The workmanship warranty on the estimate covers how the roof went on, and a leak at a flashing in year three is an installation problem.
Roof replacement in Eau Claire: the eight steps, the decking, and the cost tiers.
The most common leak on a Wisconsin roof is the pipe boot, because its rubber gasket cracks years before the shingles do. Then chimney and sidewall flashing, valleys laid without membrane, nail pops from a deck moving through freeze-thaw, and wind-lifted rows on older 3-tab. On East Side Hill's older two-stories it is usually chimney flashing on a steep pitch. Single-point fixes get a flat price confirmed on the roof, and most finish in one visit: $300 to $500 for a run of shingles, up to about $4,500. A ceiling stain near an outside wall in February is almost always an ice dam, meltwater pushed back under the bottom courses by a frozen eave. That runs $800 to $3,500 on the roof side and $2,000 to $4,500 once drywall and insulation come down.
Roof repair in Eau Claire: leaks, flashing, vent boots, and what each costs.
A typical 2,000 square foot Eau Claire house runs $9,000 to $16,000 in asphalt and $14,000 to $24,000 in standing seam. Five drivers: pitch and complexity (each valley, dormer, and skylight adds flashing, and past about 6/12 the crew works off roof jacks); layers coming off; decking replaced; shingle or panel grade; and ventilation to code, usual on mid-century North Side and Mount Simon ranches vented for far less insulation than the attic holds now. Bids thousands apart usually differ in scope; a low bid most often skips the decking allowance and ventilation work. Local lenders typically finance at $150 to $300 a month over 5 to 10 years. The number comes from walking the roof, counting layers at the drip edge, and checking decking from the attic.
The tiers behind those bands: roof replacement cost tiers by size, pitch, and shingle grade and metal roofing cost by panel system.
Architectural shingles are rated for 110 to 130 mph winds, 3-tab for 60 to 80, so a spring wind strips 3-tab first; the post-2000 subdivisions on the south side and in Altoona are nearly all architectural. We install CertainTeed Landmark, GAF Timberline HDZ, and Owens Corning Duration. Each has a Class 4 impact-rated version, costlier per square, that earns a discount on wind and hail coverage under many Wisconsin policies, and algae-resistant versions with copper or zinc granules hold off streaking on shaded north slopes along the river valleys. Wisconsin's dwelling code, SPS 321.28(4), requires ice barrier only on roofs at 4:12 or flatter, and a roof that reaches its rated 25 to 30 years has it at every eave and valley anyway, along with the nail count the shingle calls for and attic ventilation to code.
Asphalt shingle roofing: architectural vs 3-tab, which line, installed to Wisconsin code.
Standing seam is the metal roof for the house; exposed-fastener steel goes on barns, machine sheds, and garages toward Fall Creek, Augusta, and Mondovi at $9,000 to $15,000, its screw gaskets giving out at 15 to 20 years, long before the steel. Panels weigh about half what asphalt does, so framing that carried shingles rarely needs work; the cost hides in the trim, where each wall, chimney, skylight, and valley gets a fabricated piece. Snow lets go in slabs, so any pitch over 4/12 gets snow guards above a walk, deck, driveway, or air conditioner. Standing seam lasts 40 to 50 years and pays back once you skip the second asphalt roof, and goes on in winter whenever the deck is dry.
Metal roofing: standing seam vs exposed fastener, and when metal makes sense.
Flat and low-slope roofs get TPO, EPDM, or modified bitumen: strip centers along Clairemont Avenue, downtown storefronts draining through scuppers behind a brick parapet, and porches and additions on houses. Commercial membrane runs $8 to $18 a square foot, house flat sections $7 to $16. Before any quote comes a free written assessment: the system, where it ponds, a remaining-life estimate given as a two or three year window, and a repair, recover, or replace call for capital planning. A recover is allowed only over one dry layer and saves 30 to 40% against a tear-off, so that call rests on a moisture survey: an infrared scan after dark and core cuts. A tear-off that exposes the insulation brings it to current energy code, and nearly every job runs with the business open.
Commercial and flat roofing: TPO, EPDM, costs, and the recover decision.
Roofs here take wind and hail: the National Weather Service confirmed five tornadoes in Eau Claire County on April 28, 2025, and on May 15 hail up to 4 inches hit Eau Claire and Altoona, with reports across Chippewa and Dunn counties. The inspection is free and the documentation is yours whether or not we do the repair. Adjusters check dented gutters, downspouts, and vent caps first, because soft metal records hail size, so photograph them before anyone touches them. A replacement-cost policy pays in two parts, depreciated value first, the rest at completion, and we can be on the roof when the adjuster comes. Wear and tear is not covered, and we tell you which side of that line you are on before you file.
Storm damage roof repair and the insurance claim, step by step.
Water coming in now gets a tarp the same business day if a crew is free, or first thing next morning: battened into the rafters against the next front, the damage photographed beforehand for the adjuster. A small area runs $300 to $500, a full slope $500 to $900, a limb to cut $700 to $1,500; most storm claims pay for the tarp, so keep the invoice. After 6 PM, calls go to voicemail and get returned when we open; overnight, kill the wet circuit's breaker, set buckets under the drips, and stay off the roof. The permanent repair should follow inside 30 days; sun breaks a tarp down after about a month and carriers question long tarps.
Emergency roof repair: same-day tarps and what to do before we arrive.
An asphalt replacement takes one to two working days on most houses, metal two to four, since trim goes slower than shingle, plus a buffer day for a wet deck or rain in the forecast. The calendar sits four to eight weeks out in summer and fall and one to three in late winter and early spring, and storm work jumps the line, so a roof you already know is done books faster in early spring. Where a permit applies, we file it as soon as the estimate is signed, so the crew is not waiting on paperwork.
A re-roof estimate changes with the age of the street; nearly a fifth of Eau Claire's housing units were standing before 1940. The Third Ward and Randall Park, both National Register historic districts listed in 1983, are streets of frame houses with attics vented before any code required it, so ice dams build along the eaves most winters and a re-roof there includes an intake correction. Under the Randall Park canopy the shade side of a roof grows moss and the storm side takes branches. The Emery Street Bungalow District, 1915 to 1930, carries low-slope porch roofs that fall under the code's 4:12 ice-barrier rule and dormer cheeks where the water usually gets in. South side subdivisions built after 2000 came with code ventilation, so pricing there holds with fewer surprises. Out toward Chippewa Falls, Menomonie, and Bloomer a job often pairs standing seam on the house with exposed-fastener panel on the machine shed, and doing both in one mobilization typically trims the total 10 to 20%.
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Yes. The City of Eau Claire requires one for a tear-off re-roof: $35 for a house in 2026, jobs under 200 square feet exempt, and the fee doubles if work starts before it is issued. We pull it. Altoona requires one, with repairs under $5,000 exempt; Chippewa Falls requires one unless the job is under $2,000 or 200 square feet; Lake Hallie's runs through Chippewa County; Menomonie needs none for shingles with no pitch change, and Bloomer none for roofing.
No. We tear off on every residential shingle replacement. The state dwelling code, SPS 321.28(6), bars a new roof over one that is water-soaked or deteriorated or that already carries two applications, and even where a second layer is legal it works against the new roof: the old shingles hide the deck, so soft sheets stay buried, and the extra layer traps heat and shortens shingle life. A tear-off puts the ice barrier and flashing straight on the wood.
Yes, and the material decides how. Asphalt shingles self-seal between about 40 and 85 F, when the sealant strip softens and bonds to the course below. Below 40 F the strip stays dormant and the shingles turn brittle, so a winter shingle job means hand-sealing every course with roofing cement on dry days, and it costs more. Standing seam and steel panels have no strip to wait on and go on any dry winter day, which is why a January replacement is usually a metal job.
Attic heat. Warm air leaking through the ceiling warms the deck, snow melts from underneath, the meltwater refreezes at the cold eave, and that ridge of ice sends the next melt back under the shingles. The cure runs in order: air-seal the ceiling penetrations, bring the insulation to full depth, balance soffit intake against ridge exhaust at the code's 1 to 300 ratio (1 to 150 without high vents), and heat cables only after all three. Roof vents alone do not stop them, because the heat still gets in.
The crew pulls up between 7 and 8 AM, earlier in August. Tear-off is the noisy stretch and is usually finished by noon. Be home for the first half hour if you can: the shingle color gets checked against your siding in daylight, since a sample board reads differently than a whole roof. Any deck still open at day's end is tarped. The last pass is a magnet rolled over the lawn and driveway for nails, then a walkthrough with you.
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