St. Charles is two roofing markets in one city. The historic district off Main Street is full of 19th-century brick and frame houses with steep pitches, dormers and complicated valleys. Everything built after 1970 out toward Zumbehl and New Town is conventional subdivision asphalt.
The historic district off South Main is the oldest continuously occupied part of the region, and the houses show it. Steep pitches, dormers, additions that changed the roofline twice, and flashing details that were done by hand. Out at New Town and the Zumbehl corridor you are looking at a completely different job: uniform subdivision roofs, mostly one or two builders, mostly the same shingle, mostly aging on the same schedule. We quote them differently because they are different work.
Arrowhead Roofing & Exteriors works throughout St. Charles and the rest of St. Charles County out of our office in Weldon Spring. Free inspections, honest assessments, and a ten-year workmanship warranty on our installations. Call 636-730-0405.
Roofing services we provide in St. Charles
- roof repair, from a single failed pipe boot to a slope that needs rebuilding
- Full roof replacement, including tear-off, decking repair and new flashing
- hail damage repair and wind damage repair, documented properly for a claim
- emergency roof repair when something is open to the weather right now
- Free roof inspection with photographs of anything we find
- architectural shingle roofing and metal roofing
- attic ventilation, gutters and downspouts and chimney flashing repair
Two kinds of roofs, two kinds of work
St. Charles does not have one housing type, so we do not have one answer. On the older properties the work is usually careful: flashing, valleys, chimney details, and repairs that respect how the house was built. On the newer subdivision houses it is more often storm assessment, insurance claim help and eventual roof replacement when the original builder-grade shingle gives out.
What does not change is that we get on the roof before we quote it. You cannot tell the difference between a roof with five years left and a roof with fifteen from a satellite image or the end of a driveway, and a quote built that way is a guess.
Commercial roofing in St. Charles
Commercial roofing is a large part of what we do, not a sideline. If you own or manage a building in St. Charles we handle:
- flat roofing systems and low-slope roofs, including TPO roofing and modified bitumen
- commercial roof replacement with a phased plan if the budget needs one
- Leak tracing and seam, flashing, drain and scupper repair
- Documented condition reports for capital planning and insurance
- commercial gutters and downspouts
- Scheduled maintenance so small failures do not become a tear-off
Most flat roofs in St. Charles do not fail across the field. They fail at seams, terminations, penetrations, drains and scuppers. That means a leak is usually a repair rather than a replacement, and any contractor who opens with a tear-off number before walking the roof is guessing. We find the actual source, price the repair, and tell you honestly how much life is left in the system.
After a storm
Severe weather in this region does not always announce itself on the roof. Check your gutters for granule buildup, look for shingle pieces in the yard, and watch for new staining on upstairs ceilings. If anything looks off, we will do a free roof inspection and tell you whether it is a roof repair, an insurance claim, or nothing at all. We can also help with the insurance claim help if it comes to that.
Where we work from
St. Charles is inside our regular service area and we work there every week. Our office is at 6020 Weldon Spring Pkwy, Weldon Spring, MO 63304. We do not keep a separate storefront in every town we serve, and we would rather say that plainly than list addresses that are really just mailboxes.
Common questions
Do you offer financing?
We do. Details are on our financing page, and the terms come from the lender rather than from us, so you will see them before you commit to anything.
Do I need a full replacement or will a repair hold?
It depends on whether the shingle field still has life in it. If the failure is isolated to flashing, a valley or a few courses, a roof repair is the right call. If the shingles are brittle and shedding across the whole roof, patching it is throwing money at it. We will tell you which one you have.
Is the inspection really free?
Yes, and there is no obligation after it. We will tell you if your roof has five more good years in it, because that is how we would want to be treated.
St. Charles is part of our St. Charles County service area
See everywhere we work in the county on our St. Charles County roofing page, or the full Arrowhead service area across the Greater St. Louis region. We also have pages for O’Fallon, St. Peters, Wentzville, Cottleville, Weldon Spring, Lake Saint Louis.
Get a free roof inspection in St. Charles
We will come out, get on the roof, and tell you what we actually find, including when the answer is that your roof has years left. Call 636-730-0405 or send us a message and we will get you on the schedule. There is no charge for the inspection and no obligation afterward.