Columbia MO Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in New Franklin, MO — Howard County, population 1,027. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves New Franklin homes and businesses.
New Franklin property owners near the marker for the eastern terminus of the Santa Fe Trail, the Katy Trail depot at the north end of the river crossing count on Columbia MO Roof Pros for roofing contractor in New Franklin MO. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Columbia to every job in New Franklin, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 942-4026 for a free roofing estimate in New Franklin, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in New Franklin, MO
On April 13, 1993, hail 2.50 inches across was reported at New Franklin, and 1.75-inch stones followed on June 10, 2011. The most recent significant fall was 2.00 inches on April 4, 2023. Eleven inch-or-larger days sit in the record for a town of a thousand people.
That 1993 date is a marker for more than hail. It was the year the Missouri River took the bottoms below the bluff, and the flood reset what property in the low country between here and Boonville was worth improving. The roofs went on being maintained; the ambitions attached to them did not.
The stock is genuinely old. Twenty-two percent of New Franklin's 522 units were built in 1939 or earlier and nearly 35 percent predate 1950, against a 1967 median build year and $139,500 of median value. Nothing at all has been built here since 2019. Sixty-eight percent of occupied units are owner-occupied and eight units were built through the entire 2010s.
Houses of that vintage in this part of Howard County were framed to breathe. They carry deep unvented soffits and generous overhangs, and wrapping those soffits in solid aluminum is exactly the wrong move on a roofline that was designed to move air through the boards.
So we cut out the bad sections, splice in new stock and paint all six sides, or we install vented panel sized to the existing overhang rather than to whatever the supplier had on the truck. Intake first, exhaust second, and never exhaust without intake. Net free area gets counted rather than estimated, because a soffit that looks vented and is not will still rot the sheathing.
Howard County carries no building code in the state's county table, so unincorporated ground here has no permit requirement and no inspection. Whatever applies to your parcel is a New Franklin ordinance, and we ask at city hall before quoting rather than assuming from the next town over. The strongest gust on record is 61 mph, logged on March 6, 2017 and May 8, 2002.
The Santa Fe Trail marker and the Katy Trail depot at the river crossing bring visitors, and visitors bring crews working out of trucks with out-of-state plates after every storm line. Ask for the dated event they say damaged your roof. We will check it against the record for you.
About New Franklin, MO — and why local matters here
New Franklin sits in Howard County with a population of roughly 1,027, close enough to Columbia that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the marker for the eastern terminus of the Santa Fe Trail, the Katy Trail depot at the north end of the river crossing.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. New Franklin properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Howard 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 New Franklin
Call (844) 942-4026 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in New Franklin, 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 Armstrong, MO and the rest of Boone County and mid-Missouri. Everything starts at the Columbia MO Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in New Franklin, MO
Columbia MO Roof Pros covers the same range of work in New Franklin that we do in Columbia — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Fascia & Soffit — This is the item an inspector writes up without ever getting on a ladder. Peeling fascia, a soffit panel hanging open, bare wood going gray: all of it is visible from the sidewalk, and all of it sits under the maintenance rules for exterior surfaces and overhang extensions.
- Chimney Flashing — Columbia has a great many brick chimneys that no longer do anything. The furnace was vented out a sidewall two owners back, the fireplace was closed off, and the stack simply stays where it is, penetrating the roof and needing flashing forever for no benefit at all.
- Commercial Roofing — Commercial work in Columbia means apartment blocks and rooming houses as often as it means offices. The city's rental ordinance covers apartment houses and multi-unit buildings as well as single rentals, so a flat roof over twenty units carries the same code obligation a duplex does.
- Insurance Claim Help — Half of what we do on claims is telling an owner there is no claim here. A roof written up at a rental inspection for wear is a maintenance obligation, not a covered loss, and running it past a carrier as storm damage rarely ends well.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement in Columbia gets decided by a date more often than by a leak. If the building is a rental, the certificate of compliance has an expiry, and the inspection that follows it reads the roof against a written code.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most roofs we are called to in Columbia do not need replacing. They need one flashing detail rebuilt.
See the full list of Columbia services, or call (844) 942-4026.
Popular services in New Franklin: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Armstrong, MO and Boone County and mid-Missouri.