Birmingham Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Homewood, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,414. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Homewood homes and businesses.
Homewood property owners near Homewood Central Park, the 18th Street South business district count on Birmingham Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Homewood, AL. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Birmingham to every job in Homewood, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 669-3509 for a free roofing estimate in Homewood, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Homewood, AL
Homewood carries three National Register historic districts inside one small city: Hollywood, listed in 2002 and roughly bounded by U.S. 31, U.S. 280 and Lakeshore Drive, and Rosedale and Rosedale Park, both listed in March 2004. In that much recognized fabric, matching a profile and a color across a street matters more than shaving a hundred dollars off a square.
The Census puts 1,198 of Homewood's 10,744 housing units at 1939 or earlier and another 2,941 in the 1940s and 1950s, which is roughly 38 percent of the city standing from before 1960. Median year built is 1970. This is the archetype the rest of our site reasons about: multiple coal flues gathered into one corbelled stack, plank sheathing, steep gables and a crown nobody has looked at since it was poured.
So we settle the stack before we price the covering. Rebuild the top courses and pour a proper crown with an overhang and a drip kerf. Cap it and keep it. Or take it below the deck, frame and sheathe the opening and shingle across. Three prices, and we say which one we would pick on your house.
Homewood also has the metro's most detailed recent tornado record. On December 10, 2023 an EF1 crossed the city at roughly 100 mph, blowing windows out of a five-story office building on Wildwood Parkway, taking a roof off an auto shop near Green Spring Avenue, and dropping mature trees through more than three dozen homes along and north of Saulter Road before dying at the edge of the Samford campus.
That storm is worth reading correctly: almost none of the residential damage was wind lifting shingles. It was trees. A tree strike is a structural repair with a roofing component, and the sequence is decking and rafters first, covering second. We will not shingle over a cracked rafter to close a claim faster.
Permits and inspections run from the fourth floor of City Hall at 2850 19th Street South, and the department handles plan review, certificates of occupancy and the structural, gas and mechanical trades. Homewood also seats a Historic Preservation Commission, which is a real body and worth a call before anyone changes a roof material inside a listed district.
Owner-occupancy here runs about 64 percent, lower than the over-the-mountain average, and 771 units stand in duplexes and fourplexes. On a small multi, the person paying for the roof is often not the person under it, and we write those scopes so a landlord can compare them line by line.
About Homewood, AL — and why local matters here
Homewood sits in Jefferson County with a population of roughly 26,414, close enough to Birmingham that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Homewood Central Park, the 18th Street South business district.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Homewood properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Jefferson 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 Homewood
Call (833) 669-3509 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Homewood, 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.
We also serve Trussville, AL and the rest of Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. Everything starts at the Birmingham Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Homewood, AL
Birmingham Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Homewood that we do in Birmingham — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Roof Leak Repair — Start where the water gets in, not where the ceiling is stained. In this city those are usually different rooms, because the most common entry point on an older house is a brick stack in the middle of the plane and water travels along a rafter before it drops.
- Storm Damage Restoration — Central Alabama storms take the tallest thing on the house first. On the pre-war stock that is a brick stack standing three or four feet above the ridge with nothing bracing it, and it comes down across the slope rather than off the side.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail reaches Jefferson County most springs, but far less of what gets called hail damage here is actually hail. We would rather tell you that on the first visit than help you file a claim that gets denied and then sits in your loss history for five years.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind failure on an older Birmingham house starts at the stack, not at the rake. A brick chimney standing proud of the ridge throws a pressure shadow downwind, and the shingles in it lift and reseal a few thousand times before one stops resealing.
- Roof Inspections — Our inspection has an extra stop that most do not: the inside of every flue. A mirror and a light at the top of the stack tell you whether the flue is lined, whether it is holding water, and whether anything is still connected below.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Asphalt covers the overwhelming majority of roofs in this county and it should. Our advice on it is unfashionable: buy a mid-weight architectural laminate, buy it in the standard line, and put the difference into the brick and the metal it has to meet.
See the full list of Birmingham services, or call (833) 669-3509.
Popular services in Homewood: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Trussville, AL and Jefferson County and the Birmingham district.