About Wilson Roof Pros: Licensed Roofing Pros in NC
Wilson Roof Pros works out of Wilson and covers the counties that sit around it. The trade here is mostly asphalt over one-story houses, with a real amount of surviving metal on older frame homes, low-slope additions on nearly everything, and a downtown of wide-span warehouse buildings that needs a different skill set entirely. We do all of it, and we would rather be specific about how than say we do everything well.
The measurement habit that runs through this site came from getting it wrong. Pricing hipped roofs off square counts alone means the cap footage lands somewhere in a markup, and either the customer overpays or the crew runs short on a Friday afternoon. Writing both numbers down fixed it, and it turned out to answer the ventilation question at the same time, because ridge footage is the whole constraint on a ridge vent.
There are jobs we are not the right people for.
If your house needs masonry, if the water on your ceiling is coming from an air handler or a window head rather than the roof, or if what you actually want is the lowest number anybody will put on paper, we are going to be the wrong call and we will say so on the first visit.
We also will not sell a ridge vent to a roof that cannot use one, which loses us work every month.
If you have a roofing project in Wilson, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Wilson service we handle, check whether we cover Elm City, NC and the rest of the inner Coastal Plain between the Neuse and the Tar, or go back to the Wilson Roof Pros homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (844) 511-2320.
Credentials
- License: Licensed through the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors under the Specialty classification S (Roofing). Ask us for the number and run it yourself on the board's public search before you sign.
- Insurance: Commercial general liability and workers' compensation, both current, with the certificate sent to you straight from our agent's office rather than handed over as a photocopy.
- Association: No trade-group crest on the truck. What we will put in writing is that every roof is fastened and detailed to the shingle manufacturer's published instructions for its wind class, and that the vent plan is sized against measured ridge footage.
- Warranty: Ten years on workmanship, written on a separate sheet from the manufacturer's product coverage, with the hip and ridge cap named as its own covered item.
How Wilson Roof Pros works
How a job with Wilson Roof Pros runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. Ten years on workmanship, written on a separate sheet from the manufacturer's product coverage, with the hip and ridge cap named as its own covered item. backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a roofing job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Wilson.
Where Wilson Roof Pros works and who we work with
Wilson, NC first, then the surrounding communities of the inner Coastal Plain between the Neuse and the Tar: Elm City, Black Creek, Lucama, Stantonsburg, Saratoga, Sims, Rocky Mount, Nashville and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across the inner Coastal Plain between the Neuse and the Tar. Start with the Wilson services, the Wilson Roof Pros homepage, or just call (844) 511-2320.
Why Wilson Chooses Wilson Roof Pros
- ✓We record linear feet of ridge and linear feet of hip on every estimate, because cap footage and vent capacity both come from those numbers and a square count tells you neither.
- ✓We refuse ridge vents on roofs that cannot supply them. If the ridge is too short to carry the exhaust an attic needs, we fit off-ridge or hip vents and explain the arithmetic instead.
- ✓We repair sound old metal roofs rather than removing them. Fasteners, seams, rust conversion and a coating system beat a tear-off on most of the older frame houses around here.
- ✓We quote the plane when a plane is what failed. Hipped roofs are bounded by hips, so replacing one slope is straightforward and we would rather do that than sell a whole roof.
- ✓We check the hip footage on insurance scopes before anyone agrees to them, because aerial reports separate ridge from hip and estimates routinely carry one and drop the other.
- ✓We put the deck allowance, the cap product and the vent plan in the contract by name, so there is nothing left to interpret once the roof is open and the crew is on it.
What Wilson Customers Say
They were the third company out and the only one who got on the roof with a tape. Showed me the hip footage the other two had left off their quotes and explained exactly what the cap was going to cost. No pressure at all.
Old tin roof on my grandmother's house. Two outfits told me it had to come off. These folks reset the fasteners, worked the seams and coated it for a third of what a new roof would have run. Straight answer, and it has been dry since.
Told me flat out that a ridge vent would not do anything on my roof because there was not enough ridge, and put box vents on the back slopes instead. First roofer who has ever explained why instead of just selling me the upgrade.
Leak turned out to be a cracked pipe boot, not the roof. They fixed it for a small charge and told me the shingles had years left. Could easily have sold me a whole roof that day and did not.
Service Areas
Wilson Roof Pros serves Wilson, NC and surrounding communities including: