Fort Wayne Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement, Repair and Drainage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Written estimates at no charge, Allen County and the counties around it.
Fort Wayne roofing contractor classification and Allen County Building Department registration, both current·We find out which sewer your downspouts drain into before we price a gutter·Free written estimate naming metal gauge, outlet count, fall and the per-sheet deck rate·Allen, Whitley, DeKalb, Wells, Huntington, Noble and Adams counties
Fort Wayne Premium Roofing is a roofing contractor in Fort Wayne, Indiana, working roof replacement, storm and hail damage, leak repair, metal and low-slope systems, gutters, fascia and chimney flashing across Allen County. We install laminated asphalt shingles, standing seam steel, welded thermoplastic membrane and modified bitumen, and we size every trough and downspout as part of the roof rather than as trim added at the end.
What makes a roof here different from one two counties over is where its water is allowed to go. The oldest part of the city drains into combined sewers that carry sewage and rainfall in a single pipe, with forty-four overflow points on the three rivers. The subdivisions annexed since have separate storm sewers and detention basins. Same shingle, different drainage problem.
So our estimates name the deck repair rate per sheet, the fastener pattern, the metal gauge, the intake and exhaust ventilation figures, and the number of downspout outlets with the route each one takes to daylight. We work Fort Wayne, New Haven, Huntertown, Leo-Cedarville, Ossian, Columbia City, Auburn and Decatur, residential and commercial, and we put what we will not do in writing as well.
Our Roofing Services in Fort Wayne, IN
Roof Replacement
A tear-off is the only affordable hour a house ever gets. The deck is open, the fascia is exposed, and the downspout outlets are unhooked.
Roof Leak Repair
Plenty of Fort Wayne leaks are not roof leaks. Water shows on a bedroom ceiling, the shingles above it are fine, and the actual failure is a trough that overflows and drives water backward over the fascia into the cornice.
Storm Damage Restoration
The storms that damage roofs in Fort Wayne are the same storms that push the sewers past capacity. That matters, because a house can take water from above and from below in one night, and the two are paid for by different parts of your policy.
Hail Damage Roofing
Allen County does get hail, but it is not a hail alley, and the honest starting position is that most of the roofs we are called out to look at after a storm are not damaged in a way an insurer will pay for. We find that out with a ten-by-ten test square on each slope, chalked and photographed, with strikes counted inside it.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind does not treat the whole city alike. Houses on the open southwest edge, where subdivisions back onto open ground, take the full run of a squall line.
Roof Inspections
Our inspections are paid work, and the fee does not come off a later job. That is deliberate.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers most of Allen County for good reasons. It is cheap to fix, every crew in the region can work it, and on a moderate-pitch gable it will outlast the mortgage refinance you were planning around it.
Metal Roofing
Metal earns its price in two places on a Fort Wayne house, and neither is the main roof. The first is a low-slope porch or addition roof.
Tile Roofing
Most of this page argues against the product. Tile is a wonderful roof in the wrong climate for this argument to be simple, and in Allen County it is rare, heavy and usually a bad trade on a house that was not framed for it.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope roofs in Fort Wayne fail at the drain far more often than anywhere in the field. A membrane will hold water indefinitely.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings get sold in this market as a way to avoid a replacement, and once in a while that is exactly what they are. Most of the time they are a way to spend real money on a roof whose problem is downstream of anything a coating can reach.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is arithmetic, and almost nobody shows their work. We count net free area at intake and at exhaust, print both numbers on the estimate, and tell you which of the two your house is short on.
Skylights
Nearly every leaking skylight we open in Allen County is leaking for one of two reasons. It was deck-mounted flush when it should have stood on a curb, or it was flashed with sealant instead of with the metal kit the unit was designed around.
Gutters & Downspouts
This is the page that decides most of the others. A gutter is not trim.
Fascia & Soffit
Rotten fascia is a diagnosis, not a job. The board is what your entire gutter system hangs from, and when it fails the cause is nearly always water that has been coming over the back of a trough for years rather than anything the roof did.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a hole cut through the weather plane, and around here it is usually cut through soft common brick laid before the war. That combination is why chimneys account for such a large share of the leaks we are called out to find.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp is a temporary measure with a real cost and a real failure rate, so the first thing we will tell you on the phone is whether you actually need one tonight. Quite often the honest answer is that you do not.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofs in Fort Wayne carry the drainage question at a scale where it gets expensive fast. A downtown building with internal drains and a parapet is putting a great deal of water into one pipe in a very short time, and the pipe has other work to do.
Insurance Claim Help
We help with claims by documenting what is there and being present when the adjuster walks the roof. We are not public adjusters.
Why Fort Wayne Chooses Fort Wayne Premium Roofing
- ✓Before we price anything with a trough in it we establish which of Fort Wayne's three sewer regimes your address sits on, because in the older neighborhoods the pipe under the street is carrying sanitary flow and rainfall in one barrel and it is full exactly when your roof needs it.
- ✓Every estimate says where the water leaves the property: a splash block, a buried tile we have put a camera or a hose down, or a leader we are recommending you abandon. That line is on the quote next to the shingle, because it decides as much about the roof's life as the shingle does.
- ✓Deck replacement carries a signed rate per sheet agreed before tear-off starts, so bad sheathing reaches you as a figure you already accepted rather than as a negotiation on your driveway with the roof open.
- ✓Intake and exhaust ventilation are counted in square inches of net free area and printed on the estimate. Post-2006 houses in the annexed southwest and boxed-cornice houses in the old core fail this in opposite directions, and neither is fixed by adding another ridge vent.
- ✓Inspections are paid work and the fee never comes off a later job. An inspection that costs nothing is a sales call, and the person doing it has decided what he is going to find before he sets the ladder.
- ✓We turn work down in writing: no coatings over ponding caused by a drain that backs up from below, no tile conversions on truss framing until an engineer has written a letter, and no claim we honestly believe your policy will refuse.
About Fort Wayne Premium Roofing in Fort Wayne, IN
Fort Wayne Premium Roofing works Allen County and the counties around it, from the pre-war streets inside the three rivers out to the subdivisions annexed in 2006 and the small towns beyond them. Residential and commercial, replacement and repair, and a good deal of drainage work that other roofers hand off.
The reason we treat drainage as roofing is that this city gives us no choice. Forty-four combined sewer overflow points discharge to the St. Marys, the St. Joseph and the Maumee, and the pipe under an older street is doing two jobs at once. A roof here is not finished when the last shingle is nailed. It is finished when its water has somewhere to go.
Do not hire us if the cheapest number is what you are after, if you want a layover on a roof we cannot see beneath, or if you want someone to say a claim is covered when we believe it is not.
We charge for inspections, we will not touch your deductible, and we turn down tile conversions on truss framing and coatings over wet insulation every year. If a repair is the honest answer, that is the quote you will get.
Service Areas
Fort Wayne Premium Roofing serves Fort Wayne, IN and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
We walk it, then we trace the water
Every slope that can be walked safely, a pole camera for the rest, and then the attic from underneath. After that we run a hose into each trough and each downspout to find out where your roof water actually ends up, which on older addresses is the question nobody has asked.
A written scope with numbers in it
Shingle, underlayment, metal gauge, fastener pattern, intake and exhaust net free area, per-sheet deck replacement rate, outlet count and discharge route. Anything we are recommending against is listed too, with the reason. You should be able to hand this to another contractor and get a comparable bid.
Tear-off, deck, then drainage
Bad sheathing is replaced at the rate you already agreed to, photographed before it is covered. Edge metal, kick-outs and valley detail go on before the field. Gutters are reset to a real fall on sound sub-fascia, with outlets added where the roof above them needs more than two.
Walk it together and get it in writing
We magnet-sweep, clear the outlets, and walk the finished job with you against the scope line by line. You get dated photographs of what was found and what was installed, the warranty with its exclusions on the same page, and a note of anything we saw but deliberately left alone.
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What Fort Wayne Customers Say
Two other companies quoted a full replacement. These guys put a hose down the downspout, found the buried line was collapsed, and told me the ceiling stain was gutter water going over the back of the trough. Fixed the fall, replaced eleven feet of fascia, done. The roof is fine.
They measured the attic intake and wrote the figure beside what the roof actually needed. Nobody had done that in nine years of me asking why the upstairs was so hot. New roof plus intake cut into the soffit, and the difference in August is not subtle.
I own a building on the square and wanted a coating quote. They took a core cut, showed me the wet insulation, and said a coating would be money thrown away. Ended up doing the drains and scuppers first and replacing the membrane the next year. Straight with me the whole way.
Storm took shingles off the west slope and the basement backed up the same night. They wrote the two things up separately and explained why that mattered before the adjuster came. Claim went through without an argument. Crew was tidy and the deck rate was exactly what the paper said.
Commercial Roofing in Fort Wayne and Across Northeast Indiana
We survey, maintain, repair and replace low-slope roofs on downtown buildings, industrial and warehouse space, retail, churches, schools and apartment portfolios across Allen County and the surrounding counties.
On any building inside the older service area we look at the drainage before the membrane, because a parapet roof with internal leaders into a combined line has a failure mode that has nothing to do with the roof surface.
Surveys are written for owners and property managers, with a plan of each roof area, a condition rating, a remaining-life range, and a costed maintenance list you can budget against.
- ✓Mechanically fastened and fully adhered 60 and 80 mil thermoplastic membrane, hot-air welded
- ✓EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen where traffic, uplift or an old plank deck rules out plates
- ✓Roof drain rebuilds: two-piece bodies, clamping rings, dome strainers and new lead or membrane flashing
- ✓Overflow scuppers cut through parapets where a roof has no secondary drainage path
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate and site-built crickets designed to a measured slope, not shimmed by eye
- ✓Standing seam and structural metal on warehouse, agricultural and institutional buildings
- ✓Roof asset surveys with plans, condition ratings, remaining-life ranges and costed maintenance lists
- ✓Night, weekend and phased work so a trading tenant or an occupied school is not shut down
Frequently Asked Questions
Are my downspouts connected to a sewer, and does that matter here?
On older Fort Wayne blocks it often matters a great deal. The city has three separate sewer regimes, and the oldest neighborhoods sit on combined lines that carry sanitary flow and rainfall together. A leader tied into one of those is discharging into a pipe that is at capacity exactly when your roof needs it most.
We put a hose down each downspout during an inspection so you know which situation you are in, and City Utilities can tell you the rest.
My gutter overflows but the roof looks fine. What is going on?
Usually one of three things. The trough has no fall or the wrong fall and is standing full before the rain arrives. The outlets are undersized or too few for the roof area feeding them. Or the buried leader below has failed and the water has nowhere to go once it reaches the bottom.
All three show up as water coming over the back edge into the fascia, which is why rotten fascia is nearly always a drainage diagnosis rather than a roofing one.
Is a bigger gutter the answer, or more downspouts?
More downspouts, in most cases. A five-inch trough with four outlets moves more water than a six-inch trough with two, and it costs less to install. Trough size only becomes the limiting factor on very long runs or steep roofs that deliver water fast. We would rather cut two more outlets than sell you the heavier profile, and on a modest house the smaller trough looks better anyway.
Should I put gutter guards on a house under mature trees?
It depends on the tree. Under maples, where the debris is broad leaf, a good guard reduces cleaning noticeably. Under oak and especially under pine, needles knit into the mesh and the guard becomes the dam it was sold to prevent. No guard eliminates cleaning, and one fitted over a trough with the wrong fall just hides standing water from you. We will tell you which case your house is.
My basement took water in the same storm that damaged the roof. Is that one claim?
Almost certainly not, and combining them can cost you the roof claim. Wind and impact damage to the roof plane is one kind of loss. Water that came up through a floor drain because the sewer surcharged is a different one, covered by a different endorsement if it is covered at all. We write those as separate findings in our report so an adjuster is not handed a reason to question the whole file.
Do you work in New Haven, Huntertown, Leo-Cedarville and Ossian?
Yes, along with Woodburn, Grabill, Monroeville, Columbia City, Churubusco, Auburn, Garrett, Waterloo, Kendallville, Bluffton, Markle, Roanoke, Huntington, Decatur and Berne. Outside the city limits the drainage answer changes, because roof water there generally reaches a roadside ditch or a field tile under the county drainage system rather than a municipal pipe. We name the discharge route on the estimate either way.