Roof repair and replacement in Windsor, CO

Roofing in Windsor

Windsor grew from a farm town to a suburb of both Fort Collins and Greeley in about 25 years, and the roofs show it. Old Town Windsor, the grid around Main Street and Walnut, is 1900s–1950s houses with steep pitches and the same brick chimneys and layered repairs you see in old Fort Collins. The 1990s–2000s subdivisions — Highland Meadows, Water Valley, the neighborhoods off 7th Street and Eastman Park Drive — are large two-stories with cut-up hip roofs and original architectural shingles now 15–25 years old. RainDance, Harmony Ridge, Poudre Heights, Peakview and the newest phases along Crossroads and Highway 392 are 2010s–2020s builder-grade roofs that are mostly fine until the first big hailstorm, and then all need the same thing at once.

Roof repair Windsor CO homeowners call about is dominated by hail. Windsor took a direct hit from the 2008 tornado and has been re-roofed street by street after hailstorms several times since. The storm track that runs east off the foothills across Fort Collins and Timnath reaches Windsor with the largest stones, and the flat open ground around the lakes gives the wind nothing to slow it down.

What we see most here

• Hail bruising across every slope on the newer builder-grade roofs — thinner shingles, four nails instead of six, and little margin. These become insurance claims and, more often than not, Class 4 replacements.
• Wind-lifted shingles on the west-facing slopes of the big two-stories in Water Valley and Highland Meadows after a chinook, where the seal strips on 20-year-old shingles have let go.
• Pipe boots and skylight flashing on the 2000s houses. Eight to twelve years of Front Range sun is all a rubber boot gets.
• Valley and dormer leaks on the cut-up roofs, especially where a builder ran a closed valley over felt instead of membrane.
• Ice dams on the north eaves of the older Old Town houses after a wet spring snow.

The mature cottonwoods along the Poudre and around Windsor Lake drop big limbs in every spring storm, and hail-dented gutters that never got replaced along with the roof are the most common reason we find rotted fascia here.

What we do here

• Roof repair — most Windsor repairs are $300–$1,500
• Roof replacement — a typical Highland Meadows or Water Valley two-story with 30–36 squares runs $14,000–$26,000; the larger RainDance and Harmony Ridge homes with 40-plus squares, $18,000–$32,000
• Hail damage and insurance claims — inspections, documentation, adjuster meetings, and the deductible handled the legal way
• Roof inspection — written reports for a fast-moving market
• Class 4 shingles — required by several Windsor HOAs, and the right call on the rest

HOAs and permits

Nearly every Windsor subdivision built after 2000 has an HOA with architectural guidelines covering roof color, and a growing number require Class 4 impact-resistant shingles on any replacement. We handle the submission. The Town of Windsor licenses its own contractors and requires a permit for a re-roof; both are in our price. If you're comparing quotes after a storm, read our post on questions to ask a roofing contractor — the crews that fill Windsor's cul-de-sacs the morning after a hailstorm are the reason it exists.

Nearby

Severance, Timnath and Wellington from the same crews. Roof repair Wellington CO homeowners need after the same storms is standard territory, and a roofing company Greeley CO residents on the west side can call is us as well — we cover Greeley out to 47th Avenue. Pricing is the same as Fort Collins; see the cost page.