Olympia Roof Pros provides professional metal roofing in Olympia, WA for residential and commercial properties across Thurston County and the south Sound. We recommend metal more often in Olympia than we would in most cities, and the reason is not weather. A capital city keeps a real sheet-metal bench employed, because the buildings around us need coping, curbs and gravel stops every year regardless of the housing market.
That bench changes the arithmetic on a house. Standing seam is a fabrication trade before it is a roofing trade, and in markets without institutional work the local price carries a premium for scarcity plus the risk of a crew learning on your roof. Here the panel is rolled locally, the flashings are brake-formed to the job, and the labor exists in July as well as in January.
For a residential roof we specify twenty-four gauge with a Kynar 500 finish, mechanically seamed or snap-locked depending on pitch, over a high-temperature self-adhered underlayment, on floating clips that let the panel move with temperature instead of elongating its own fastener holes. Exposed-fastener panel has its place on outbuildings and it does not belong on a house you intend to keep. That is a cost decision being presented to you as a style one.
The details are where a metal roof is won or lost, and they are all penetrations and transitions. Curbs get built and flashed rather than caulked, valleys get a raised center rib, and anything that dies into a wall gets a counterflashed reglet instead of a bead of sealant, because a bead of sealant is maintenance dressed up as a detail. A metal roof with caulked transitions is a ten-year roof wearing a fifty-year finish.
We get asked about metal over an existing shingle roof most weeks. It can be done over a sound single layer with a proper underlayment and a purlin or furring system, and it is often the wrong answer, because it hides the deck condition that decides the life of everything above it. We will quote it, and we will tell you what we cannot see.
The honest limitation is cost and it is significant. Standing seam typically lands at two or three times what architectural shingle costs on the same house, and it should last two to three times as long, which makes it a decision about how long you are staying rather than a decision about materials. If you are moving in four years, buy the shingle.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — quarter-inch-per-foot tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a drain-point layout, edge metal carrying an ANSI/SPRI ES-1 test rating with fastening to match, hot-air-welded thermoplastic seams probed by hand with a dull hook, two-inch core cuts patched and logged against a numbered roof plan, 24-gauge Kynar 500 standing seam on floating expansion clips, six-nail fastening set inside the manufacturer's published nail zone — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Olympia and nearby communities including Lacey, Tumwater, Yelm, Tenino.
What We Handle
Everything our metal roofing in Olympia covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of metal roofing work in Olympia, WA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Olympia services.
Materials, equipment and how we do metal roofing
The difference between metal roofing that lasts and metal roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with quarter-inch-per-foot tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a drain-point layout, edge metal carrying an ANSI/SPRI ES-1 test rating with fastening to match, hot-air-welded thermoplastic seams probed by hand with a dull hook, two-inch core cuts patched and logged against a numbered roof plan, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Olympia job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in Thurston County and the south Sound means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do metal roofing outside Olympia
Olympia Roof Pros covers Olympia and the surrounding communities of Thurston County and the south Sound. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Metal Roofing in Lacey, WA — Thurston County, population 53,526
- Metal Roofing in Tumwater, WA — Thurston County, population 25,350
- Metal Roofing in Yelm, WA — Thurston County, population 10,617
- Metal Roofing in Tenino, WA — Thurston County, population 1,870
- Metal Roofing in Rainier, WA — Thurston County, population 2,369
- Metal Roofing in Bucoda, WA — Thurston County, population 600
Start on the Olympia Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Olympia Chooses Olympia Roof Pros
- ✓We quote your summer date and your November date side by side, because in a capital city the dry weeks are sold against a public bid calendar and the gap between those two prices is real money you should get to decide about.
- ✓Every scope carries unit prices for sheathing, blocking, fascia and flashing before the tear-off starts, the way a public change order has to be written, so nothing on your job gets renegotiated from the top of a ladder.
- ✓We will tell you that nobody owes you prevailing wage on a private house. If a bid quotes the published Thurston County rate at you as a justification, that is a public works number being used as a sales line.
- ✓We do not install new concrete or clay tile in this market. The bench that can flash and maintain it properly is thin here, and we would sooner turn the work down than leave you with a roof nobody local will service.
The standards behind metal roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The metal roofing work we do in Olympia follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every metal roofing project in Olympia gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free metal roofing free estimate in Olympia, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.