Warwick Roof Pros: Replacement, Repair, Flat Roofing & Slate
Expert residential and commercial roofing across Kent County. Free written estimates, and a covering schedule with every quote.
Registered contractor and licensed commercial roofer in Rhode Island·Both credential numbers printed on every estimate and invoice·A numbered covering schedule with square footage before any price·Core cuts and moisture readings before we will sell a coating
Warwick Roof Pros handles roof replacement, roof leak repair and flat roofing for houses and commercial buildings throughout Warwick, Rhode Island. We work in architectural asphalt, standing seam and flat-lock metal, quarried slate, fully adhered EPDM, mechanically attached TPO and two-ply modified bitumen, along with the copper and aluminum sheet metal that ties all of those systems together at the edges.
Every quote opens with a covering schedule. We number each distinct roof surface on the building, record its type and its square footage, and give it a separate remaining-life figure and a separate price. What you end up holding is a document you can hand to a second bidder, rather than one large number with four different jobs hidden inside it and no way to compare.
That habit comes straight out of Rhode Island law. Chapter 5-73 of the general laws licenses roofing on nonresidential buildings and defines the regulated work by what the crew is doing, naming sealing, waterproofing and sheet metal, while section 5-73-3 exempts anyone applying shingles only. Here the credential follows the covering rather than the address, so we sort the roof before we price it.
Our Roofing Services in Warwick, RI
Roof Replacement
A Warwick replacement estimate opens with a schedule of coverings rather than a square-foot price. We walk the whole building and write down every distinct roof surface on it, because in this state the law governing roofing work attaches to the covering and not to the address.
Roof Leak Repair
Very few of the leaks we chase in Warwick start in the middle of anything. They start on a line where one covering stops and another begins, and those lines are also where two separate trades met on two separate days and neither of them ended up owning the joint.
Storm Damage Restoration
Storm work divides into two jobs running on completely different clocks. Making the building safe has to happen immediately, and anybody competent with a ladder can do it.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail claims get decided on a ten-by-ten test square, and on a Warwick building that square regularly lands on the wrong surface. An adjuster squares the visible shingle field, writes it up, and never opens the low-slope deck sitting behind the fascia at all.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind here finds the parts of a building nobody thinks of as roof. Entry canopies, drive-through canopies, the curbs beneath rooftop equipment and the metal capping a parapet all give way well before the field of any covering does.
Roof Inspections
What you receive is a covering schedule. Each distinct roof surface on the property gets a number, a square footage, a covering type, an estimated remaining life and a plain statement of whether Rhode Island regulates work on it.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
This is the one page on this site where Rhode Island's roofing license does not reach. Section 5-73-3 exempts contractors applying shingles only, so asphalt work is open to the widest field of bidders anywhere in the state.
Metal Roofing
We install metal, and we talk most Warwick homeowners out of it. Standing seam is a fifty-year covering, and the houses it gets sold onto in this city are usually sitting on a deck and a ventilation path with nothing remotely like fifty years left in them.
Slate & Tile Roofing
Rhode Island's roofing statute mentions slate exactly once, and it does so in order to exclude it. Section 5-73-1 defines shingles as wood or other materials, excluding slate, which drops slate straight back out of the shingles-only exemption.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope work is the regulated class in its purest form. Sealing, waterproofing and weatherproofing are the exact words section 5-73-1 uses, so on a nonresidential Warwick building a flat roof falls under chapter 5-73 from the first fastener onward.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Sealing is the very first thing Rhode Island's roofing statute names. Section 5-73-1 lists it ahead of waterproofing and sheet metal, which makes a coating on a nonresidential Warwick roof a licensed operation rather than the maintenance purchase it is invariably sold as.
Roof Ventilation
Warwick's ranch attics are wide, long and shallow, and that geometry decides what ventilation can and cannot do up there. A sixty-foot ranch on a five-in-twelve pitch leaves very little vertical distance between the point where air enters and the point where it is meant to leave.
Skylights
A skylight is a hole cut in a roof plus a piece of formed metal. On a nonresidential Warwick building the metal is the regulated half, because chapter 5-73 names related sheet-metal work inside its own definition of what roofing is.
Gutters & Downspouts
Rhode Island divides drainage the way it divides everything else on a roof. A hung gutter on a house is unregulated sheet metal.
Fascia & Soffit
The fascia and soffit line is where Rhode Island's two halves of roofing law physically meet. The covering sits above it.
Chimney Flashing
There are two ways to finish a chimney and Rhode Island's statute has effectively named one of them. Sealing is licensed work under chapter 5-73.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp is stabilization, not roofing, and in Rhode Island that distinction has teeth. Making a building safe is not the regulated work chapter 5-73 describes, which is exactly why the fastest company to reach your address is not automatically the right one for whatever has to happen next.
Commercial Roofing
Rhode Island is one of a small number of states carrying a roofing-specific license, and it is emphatically not the same thing as the general contractor registration. Chapter 5-73 puts commercial and industrial roofing under the Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board as a wholly separate instrument.
Insurance Claim Help
The credential question turns up inside the claim file and almost nobody notices it sitting there. When an adjuster's scope prices sealing, waterproofing and sheet-metal work on a Warwick commercial building, that scope is pricing work Rhode Island licenses under chapter 5-73.
Why Warwick Chooses Warwick Roof Pros
- ✓We schedule the coverings on a building before quoting it, because Rhode Island attaches its roofing credential to the covering rather than to the address on the deed.
- ✓One contract holds the membrane, the metal, the sealing and the transition between them, so the seam where these roofs actually leak has a named owner.
- ✓Fastener type and spacing go into the contract in writing, where you are entitled to check them with a tape measure instead of taking anyone's word for it.
- ✓We core low-slope roofs before recommending a coating, and we will tell you to spend nothing at all when the insulation underneath comes back wet.
- ✓On sound slate we recommend repair in copper rather than conversion, which costs us the larger job and leaves you with the better roof for longer.
- ✓Photographs of every detail that ends up buried under a covering go to you with the closed permit, so the work is auditable after the crew has gone.
About Warwick Roof Pros in Warwick, RI
Warwick Roof Pros works out of Warwick and across Kent County, on houses, plazas, churches, schools and light-industrial buildings. What we do differently is start every job with a covering schedule instead of a price, because Rhode Island attaches its roofing credential to the covering and the operation rather than to the building, and most quotes in this market never acknowledge that.
There are jobs where hiring us is the wrong call and we would rather say so early. If you need one flashing detail fixed and nothing else, a good local repair carpenter will cost you less than we will.
If price is the only axis you are working on, somebody will undercut us, and taking that offer is the rational move. And if what you want is a permanent roof built on the same afternoon as the emergency tarp, we are not going to do that.
We keep crews small and we do not subcontract the membrane, the metal or the sealing to anyone, which is the whole point of holding the chapter 5-73 license in the first place. Both credential numbers go on the estimate. The permit gets pulled in our name. Photographs of everything that ends up buried under a covering go to you at the end.
Service Areas
Warwick Roof Pros serves Warwick, RI and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
We schedule the coverings
First visit is a walk of the whole building. Every distinct roof surface gets a number on a plan, a measured square footage and a covering type, and we note which areas Rhode Island regulates under chapter 5-73 and which fall inside the shingles-only exemption. Nothing gets priced before that map exists.
Probe, core and photograph
Decking gets probed for soft spots and delamination. Low-slope fields get core cuts where we hold written permission, patched the same visit. Everything we describe gets photographed and keyed to an area number, so a finding is a location on a plan rather than a paragraph of description.
A price for each area
The estimate comes back area by area, with remaining life and cost side by side, so you can see what has to happen this year and what can honestly wait four. Both credential numbers appear on the document, and so does a plain statement of which one your building requires.
Build it, then close it out
Permits get pulled with Warwick's building department before anyone starts. Fastener types and spacing are written into the contract so they can be checked. At the end you receive the closed permit, the manufacturer warranty registration and photographs of every detail that ends up buried under a covering.
Recent Projects Across Kent County and the Greenwich Bay shore
What Warwick Customers Say
They came out for what I assumed was one roof and gave me a plan with four numbered areas on it. Two needed work now, two did not. Nobody else who quoted the building bothered to separate them.
Cut three cores on our plaza roof before quoting and found wet insulation across most of the back field. Told us a coating would be wasted money. That conversation saved us a bill we would have paid twice.
Slate roof, and they talked me out of replacing it. Reset the broken units, rebuilt the valley in copper and re-pointed the chimney crown. Came in well under the two tear-off prices I was already sitting on.
Tarped the building the night the storm came through and then made us wait a week for the real price, which they wrote down properly. The fastener spacing was on the contract. I checked it afterwards.
Licensed commercial roofing for Warwick's plazas, churches and warehouses
Chapter 5-73 of the Rhode Island general laws licenses commercial and industrial roofing as a separate instrument from contractor registration, and section 5-73-1 defines the regulated work to take in sealing, waterproofing, weatherproofing and related sheet-metal work. We hold that license and we work under it on Warwick's retail strips, institutional buildings and light-industrial stock, contracting the membrane, the metal and the transitions between them under one agreement rather than three.
- ✓EPDM, TPO and modified bitumen tear-offs and recovers with cover board throughout
- ✓Structural standing seam and exposed-fastener metal re-roofs over purlin frames
- ✓Parapet coping, gravel stop and edge metal detailed to a rated assembly
- ✓Roof drains, overflow scuppers and tapered insulation designed for positive fall
- ✓Equipment curb flashing, penetration pockets and walkway pad layouts
- ✓Canopy decks and entry structures written into the roofing scope, not left out
- ✓Maintenance programs producing a photographed written report at every visit
- ✓Core cuts and moisture surveys before any recover or coating is recommended
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Rhode Island license roofing contractors?
Partly, and the distinction matters. Every contractor registers with the Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board under chapter 5-65 of the general laws. Separately, chapter 5-73 licenses commercial and industrial roofing, with an examination, a safety course and continuing education behind it. Section 5-73-3 exempts contractors applying shingles only, so a crew doing asphalt on your house is lawfully working without that license.
Why does my estimate list four roofs when I own one building?
Because most Warwick buildings genuinely carry several. A plaza on Post Road might hold a shingled fascia, a membrane field behind it, an entry canopy and a mechanical curb area, and each has its own age, its own remaining life and its own regulatory status. Pricing them as one number hides which one is failing and leaves the transitions between them unowned by anybody.
Who pulls the permit when a Warwick roof gets replaced?
Roofing work is regulated under the Rhode Island State Building Code, which is adopted at state level and enforced by the local building official, and the permit for a Warwick property is issued by the city's building department. We pull it, we schedule the inspections, and the closed-out application stays on file at the department where any future buyer can read it.
How long should a roof last here?
On the post-war housing stock, architectural asphalt realistically gives you twenty to twenty-five years, and considerably less if the attic intake was buried under blown-in insulation. Fully adhered EPDM and TPO run twenty to thirty with maintenance. Quarried slate outlasts all of them and typically fails at its nails and flashings rather than in the stone itself.
Do you work on the slate roofs around Apponaug and Pawtuxet Village?
Yes, and our usual advice on a sound slate roof is to repair it rather than replace it. We reset individual units with a bib and a hook fastener, rebuild valleys and chimney work in sixteen-ounce copper, and re-point crowns. On a nonresidential building that work is licensed under chapter 5-73, because the statute deliberately excludes slate from its definition of shingles.
Is coating a flat roof ever the better buy?
Only if the insulation underneath is dry, and the only honest way to know that is to cut cores. If the cores come back wet across a meaningful share of the field, a coating seals the water in and you have paid to keep it there. If the roof is sound, dry and in its second decade, a silicone or acrylic system is a genuinely good trade.