Scranton Roof Pros provides professional tile roofing in Scranton, PA for residential and commercial properties across the Lackawanna Valley. Most tile conversations in Scranton are really slate conversations, and separating the two saves people a great deal of money. Somebody looks at a heavy patterned roof on a period house, calls it tile, and asks us to price tile. It is usually slate, and slate is a different trade.
Where a genuine clay or concrete tile roof does exist, it is nearly always on a building framed for it from the beginning: a church, a masonry commercial block, a substantial early-century house designed around the weight. On those we lift and reset the field, swap broken pieces and renew what is underneath them, which is generally the part that actually failed. Slate on those buildings is usually still doing its job quietly.
Putting tile onto a building that never carried it is a different proposition and we mostly decline. Around half of Scranton's thirty-five thousand housing units went up in 1939 or earlier, and that framing was sized for a covering several times lighter than tile is. Adding permanent load to it is a question for a structural engineer's letter, not for a salesman's assurance.
There is also a supply problem nobody warns you about. The anthracite region has no working tile trade. Getting matching pieces means ordering out of state and waiting, and getting a crew that installs tile every week means bringing one in. That is a difficult position to occupy with a tarp on your house and rain in the forecast on Thursday. Nobody stocks it locally for the simple reason that nobody installs it locally.
So the honest answer for most callers is one of two things. If the roof you admire is slate and the slate is sound, repair the slate and leave the rest alone. If you simply want that look on an ordinary frame house, a heavy laminated shingle in the right blend gets you a long way there without the load calculation, the wait for material or the price.
We take real tile work gladly when the building is right for it. What we will not do is convert a frame house because somebody liked a photograph. If that is genuinely the plan, hire a structural engineer to assess the framing at your own cost and bring us the letter. If nobody in the region will write that letter for your house, you already have the answer.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, W-profile valley metal formed with a raised center rib, eave intake cut into a boxed cornice that never had a soffit — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Scranton and nearby communities including Dunmore, Carbondale, Old Forge, Pittston.
What We Handle
Everything our tile roofing in Scranton covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of tile roofing work in Scranton, PA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- tile roofing
- concrete tile roof repair
- clay tile roof relay
- broken tile replacement
- tile underlayment replacement
- tile roof dead load
- structural engineer roof load
- tile roof leak repair
- historic clay tile
- tile ridge and hip repair
- slate versus tile
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Scranton services.
Materials, equipment and how we do tile roofing
The difference between tile roofing that lasts and tile roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, 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 Scranton 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 the Lackawanna Valley 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 tile roofing outside Scranton
Scranton Roof Pros covers Scranton and the surrounding communities of the Lackawanna Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Tile Roofing in Dunmore, PA — Lackawanna County, population 14,042
- Tile Roofing in Carbondale, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,828
- Tile Roofing in Old Forge, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,497
- Tile Roofing in Pittston, PA — Luzerne County, population 7,591
- Tile Roofing in Archbald, PA — Lackawanna County, population 7,297
- Tile Roofing in Blakely, PA — Lackawanna County, population 6,657
Start on the Scranton Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Scranton Chooses Scranton Roof Pros
- ✓We look your address up on the department's mine viewer before we quote, because in this valley the answer changes whether a roof is the right thing to buy this month at all.
- ✓Pennsylvania sells subsidence cover separately instead of writing it into your policy the way the statute does in Illinois, so here the first question is whether any coverage exists, not which of two perils to file under.
- ✓On a house with a mapped void and no policy we will hand you the department's phone number and leave without a signed contract, because forty-one dollars a year outranks anything on our price list.
- ✓We refuse to coat over a split detail. Beyond hiding evidence, unrepaired damage can block the Commonwealth from issuing a policy at all until the repairs are made as its board directs.
The standards behind tile roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The tile roofing work we do in Scranton 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 tile roofing project in Scranton 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 tile roofing free estimate in Scranton, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.