Kent Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Burien, WA — King County, population 52,066. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Burien homes and businesses.
Burien property owners near Three Tree Point, Seahurst Park on the sound count on Kent Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Burien, WA. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Kent to every job in Burien, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 629-7315 for a free roofing estimate in Burien, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Burien, WA
Burien publishes an exemption most of its neighbors do not. BMC 15.05.245 lists in-kind reroofing of one- and two-family dwellings as work not requiring a permit, provided the roof sheathing removed and replaced does not exceed 25 percent in area of the roof plane. Cross that line and the job becomes permitted work again.
The same section then takes the exemption away in the places where Burien actually lives. Permit exemptions shall not apply, it says, in critical areas, steep slopes, landslide hazard areas, shorelines or areas of flood hazard. On a city that drops from an upland shelf to Puget Sound in a few hundred feet, that carve-out covers a great many addresses.
Burien has the landslide file to justify it. On 3 December 2007 mudslides blocked several roads here and forced residents out of their homes. On 12 December 2010 a Burien house slid down a hill and was damaged, part of a one million dollar episode. On 5 September 2013 heavy rain opened a sinkhole that damaged a road.
So the first question on a Burien bluff lot is not what the roof is made of. It is where the water goes. We decline work where a downspout is being asked to feed the top of a moving hillside.
The housing is old and mixed. Median completion year 1966, with 18.6 percent of 21,271 units from the 1960s and 17.8 percent from the 1950s. Nine point zero percent still burn fuel oil, second only to Normandy Park. Only 57.4 percent are detached houses; almost a fifth sit in buildings of ten units or more.
Wind here is measured and unofficial at the same time. During the 25 October 2014 storm a spotter reported a 64 mph gust in Burien and 66 mph in Normandy Park next door, and the federal record flags both as unofficial. We treat them as real enough to specify against and not real enough to build an insurance claim on.
For an owner near Three Tree Point or above Seahurst, the useful advice is unglamorous. Establish whether your parcel sits in a mapped critical area before anyone talks about skipping paperwork, because in Burien that single fact decides whether your reroof is exempt work or permitted work. We check it first and put the answer in writing.
About Burien, WA — and why local matters here
Burien sits in King County with a population of roughly 52,066, close enough to Kent that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Three Tree Point, Seahurst Park on the sound.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Burien properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of King 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 Burien
Call (888) 629-7315 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Burien, 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 Normandy Park, WA and the rest of the Green River valley and south King County. Everything starts at the Kent Roof Pros homepage.
The roofing jobs Burien calls us for
Kent Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Burien that we do in Kent — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — Storm work in this valley means wind, water and falling trees. It does not mean hail, and it does not mean tornadoes, so an estimate here that reads like one written in Texas should make you suspicious.
- Hail Damage Roofing — This page exists mostly to talk Kent homeowners out of a hail claim. Damaging hail is uncommon in the Puget lowland, and nearly everything we are called out to look at here turns out to be something else.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind takes a roof apart from the edges inward. That is why the part of a Kent specification we argue about most is the perimeter: starter course, drip edge, rake fastening and the way the ridge caps are nailed down.
- Roof Inspections — An inspection here is worth paying for when it produces numbers you can compare against later. On ground that is still consolidating, the useful question is never only what the roof looks like today.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Laminated asphalt shingle is the right answer for most houses in this city, on the hill and on the valley floor alike, and it is worth being clear about why rather than treating it as the default nobody had to justify. The reasons are physical.
- Metal Roofing — Standing seam metal is a genuinely good roof and it is the wrong purchase for a particular kind of Kent house. Knowing which kind you have before you spend the money is the whole point of this page.
See the full list of Kent services, or call (888) 629-7315.
Popular services in Burien: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Normandy Park, WA and the Green River valley and south King County.