Roofing and Siding in St. Clair, Missouri

Roofing and siding in St. Clair: the local context that matters

St. Clair started in 1843 as a stagecoach way station and took its name in 1859 from a Missouri Pacific Railroad civil engineer. Old Route 66 ran straight through it before the highway became I-44 in the 1950s, and that history shows in the housing. North Main Street and the blocks around the old International Shoe Company building hold pre-war homes with steep cut-up roofs, while the ground north of the Route 47 interchange filled in with ranch and two-story builds from the 1970s on. Different eras, different roofs, and the family knows both.

Emmendorfer Exteriors is run by Matt Emmendorfer and his sons Tom and Tim, with daughter Amy on media and Wendy in the office. The crews are in-house family, never subcontracted, and they drive out to St. Clair from the shop in Union, roughly 25 minutes up Route 47 and 50. The family has put roofs and siding on more than 2,400 Missouri homes since 1990, a lot of them in exactly these Franklin County towns. The same family that walks your St. Clair roof and quotes it is the one that installs it.

St. Clair sits low enough in southeast Franklin County, near the Meramec River, that humidity and hard freeze-thaw winters both go to work on a roof. The hail that comes up I-44 out of the Ozarks in spring and summer does the fast damage, and the wind off the open farmland north of town strips shingles a section at a time. Emmendorfer roofs in CertainTeed, Owens Corning, Malarkey, and GAF, sides in LP SmartSide, Royal Building Products, CertainTeed, and Georgia-Pacific, and replaces the decking and fascia that has failed instead of covering it.

What we do in St. Clair

• Roof replacement for St. Clair's hail belt. St. Clair sits right in the I-44 hail belt that runs up out of the Ozarks, and the April 2012 supercell run that hit this part of eastern Missouri is the kind of storm that totals a roof. Emmendorfer walks the roof first, quotes it in CertainTeed, Owens Corning, Malarkey, or GAF by name, and the price you approve is the price you pay.
• Storm and hail claims handled by Tom. Tom Emmendorfer runs the insurance side and walks the adjuster through the hail and wind damage on the roof, start to finish. Missouri gives you a window to file after a storm, so St. Clair homeowners who took the spring hail should get the roof documented before the deadline runs. The family handles the claim, not a call center.
• Siding the roofing crowd skips. Most roofers around Franklin County treat siding as an afterthought. Emmendorfer has sided St. Clair homes since 1990 in LP SmartSide, Royal Building Products, CertainTeed, and Georgia-Pacific. The Meramec-area humidity and freeze-thaw winters are hard on old siding, and one family crew does the roof and the siding instead of two outfits pointing at each other.
• Decking and fascia replaced, not covered. The pre-war homes around North Main Street and the older builds near the high school often have decking and fascia that has gone soft under the shingles. Emmendorfer pulls the bad wood and replaces it before the new roof goes on, because a new roof over rotted decking fails early. You see what gets replaced, written on the estimate.
• Repair when a repair is the right call. Not every St. Clair roof that took wind needs to come off. Emmendorfer walks it, and when a repair beats a replacement the family says so straight. A few wind-lifted shingles after a storm off the open ground north of town is often a repair, not a tear-off, and you hear that before anyone sells you a new roof.

St. Clair services here: Roof Replacement, Commercial TPO Roofing, Storm Damage and Insurance Claims, Roof Repair, Free Roof Inspection, Siding.

St. Clair landmarks we work near

Interstate 44 at the Route 47 interchange (Exit 240), old Route 66 through town, the International Shoe Company building at 160 North Main Street, the 1918 Panhorst Feed Store on Saint Clair Street, Lewis Cafe downtown, and the Meramec River south of town.

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