Eau Claire Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Elk Mound, WI — Dunn County, population 985. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Elk Mound homes and businesses.
Elk Mound property owners near the rural mail carriers memorial tower, Mound Hill Park count on Eau Claire Roof Pros for roof replacement and repair in Elk Mound. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Eau Claire to every job in Elk Mound, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 832-3078 for a free roofing estimate in Elk Mound, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Elk Mound, WI
On 24 September 2019 at 5:45 in the evening a tornado touched down on the south side of Elk Mound near the intersection of Interstate 94 and South Holly Road. In the village it was rated EF0 and took the roof off a barn. It crossed the interstate, ran into Chippewa County, and strengthened there to EF3.
The Chippewa County leg was 4.72 miles long and 725 yards wide, injured three people and caused three million dollars of damage, with the worst of it in Wheaton Township just east of the village around County Road M and Highway 29. The same storm, four miles apart, went from a barn roof to entire groves of trees.
That is the argument for not judging a roof by what the storm was called over your own address. We survey slope by slope and we photograph what we find, because an EF0 rating in the village does not mean the wind field over your ridge was an EF0 wind field.
The median year built in Elk Mound is 1979. Wisconsin's Uniform Dwelling Code took effect on 1 June 1980, so this village sits almost exactly on the code's own date line: 47.4 percent of its 409 units postdate 1980 and the rest do not. Half the roofs here are governed by SPS 321.28 and half by nothing at all.
For the newer half, SPS 320.04 (2) pulls alterations into the code, so the layover bans in SPS 321.28 (6) and the underlayment and fastener rules apply. For the older half, SPS 320.05 (1) exempts the dwelling and its alterations, and the only standard is the one written on your contract.
The Village of Elk Mound and the Town of Elk Mound each hold their own delegated authority on the state list. Dunn County itself holds none. All thirty Dunn County municipalities took the delegation individually, so there is no county building department to appeal to here, only your own village office.
Electricity is the main heating fuel in 39.9 percent of homes, second highest of anywhere we cover, and 10.3 percent of the housing is manufactured and therefore built to the federal HUD standard rather than to SPS 320. Mound Hill Park and the rural mail carriers memorial tower sit on high ground where rake and ridge details fail that hold on the flat below.
Roofing work we do in Elk Mound, WI
Eau Claire Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Elk Mound that we do in Eau Claire — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Metal is a good roof for this climate and a bad one to install carelessly, because a steel panel is the coldest surface a house can present to its own attic. The panel tracks outdoor air, and in February the underside runs colder than shingles ever do.
- Tile Roofing — There is not much tile in Eau Claire, and the little that exists is usually on a church, an institutional building, or a house whose original owner brought the idea from somewhere warmer. We maintain what is here and we are careful about adding more.
- Flat and Low-Slope Roofing — Low-slope roofs in Eau Claire are porches, additions, dormer shed roofs, garage extensions and the back half of a lot of older houses on the north side. They fail differently from steep slopes, and in this climate they usually fail from underneath.
- Roof Coatings and Sealing — This is the service we decline most often, and the reason is the same reason the rest of this site exists. A coating is a vapor barrier you paint onto the top of a roof, and if the assembly underneath is already storing water, you have just closed the lid.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation is the service most people call us about after a frost melt, and it is the second thing we do, not the first. Doing it first is how a moisture problem gets worse while everybody congratulates themselves on the new ridge vent.
- Skylights — Skylights get blamed for more winter water in this city than they deserve, and they also cause more of it than their owners realize. Both things are true at once, which makes the diagnosis worth doing properly before anybody buys glass.
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About Elk Mound, WI — and why local matters here
Elk Mound sits in Dunn County with a population of roughly 985, close enough to Eau Claire that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the rural mail carriers memorial tower, Mound Hill Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Elk Mound properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Dunn County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Elk Mound
Call (888) 832-3078 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Elk Mound, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
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Popular services in Elk Mound: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Colfax, WI and the Chippewa Valley.