Kent Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Des Moines, WA — King County, population 32,888. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Des Moines homes and businesses.
Des Moines property owners near the Des Moines Marina, Highline College on Pacific Highway South count on Kent Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Des Moines, WA. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Kent to every job in Des Moines, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 629-7315 for a free roofing estimate in Des Moines, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Des Moines, WA
Des Moines is one of the three cities on this page whose business license you cannot obtain through the state. It is absent from the Department of Revenue's city endorsement list, alongside Renton and Kent itself, so a Des Moines endorsement is applied for at the city. Twenty of the other communities here can be added to the state filing in one pass.
The housing stock is genuinely old for this shoreline. Median completion year 1974, with 20.6 percent of 12,528 units built between 1960 and 1969 and 15.6 percent in the 1950s. Five point six percent still heat with fuel oil, a share that has all but vanished from the valley floor and survives along this saltwater bluff.
Fuel oil matters on a roof for an unglamorous reason. Oil heat usually means an older chimney and an older flue penetration, and flue penetrations on 1960s framing are where we find the failed flashing on roughly half the leak calls above Marine View Drive. We photograph every one before it is covered.
Marine exposure changes hardware, not just product. Fasteners, drip edge and counterflashing all live in salt air here, and the eave detail that lasts thirty years in Covington does not last thirty years above the marina. We specify accordingly and we say so on the estimate rather than quietly upgrading and charging for it.
Behind those bluff houses sits a surprising quantity of low-slope addition roofing: enclosed porches, carports and rear extensions built at pitches too shallow for shingles. Those get two-ply modified bitumen or a self-adhered membrane tied properly into the main field, not asphalt stretched below its rated slope and hoped over.
The storm record here is a numbers record rather than a damage record. On 12 January 2021 Des Moines logged a 54 mph gust, the second highest figure named in this service area that night. On 23 December 2022 it took 0.25 inches of freezing rain, more than the airport a few miles inland recorded.
What we would say to a Des Moines owner and not to one in Kent: your problem is very unlikely to be movement. Nothing under this bluff is engineered fill. Age, salt and a fifty-year-old flue are the three suspects, and a moisture meter in the attic settles the argument faster than anything we can tell you from the ground.
Getting a free estimate in Des Moines
Call (888) 629-7315 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Des Moines, 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 Burien, WA and the rest of the Green River valley and south King County. Everything starts at the Kent Roof Pros homepage.
The roofing jobs Des Moines calls us for
Kent Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Des Moines that we do in Kent — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Fascia & Soffit — Fascia is where a wet climate takes its time. Nothing dramatic happens to it.
- Chimney Flashing — Of everything standing on a roof, a masonry chimney is the hardest to keep dry, and in this region it is also the element most likely to be damaged by an earthquake. Both point at one question: is yours still doing a job worth paying for.
- Commercial Roofing — The flat ground between the hills is warehouse, distribution and light industrial floor area, and the roofs over it are large, low slope and sitting on the same filled valley bottom as the houses. That last part changes how a competent survey is done.
- Insurance Claim Help — We help with claims by being useful and clear about the limits. Roofing is our trade and claims advocacy is not: bargaining with a carrier for you takes a public adjuster license in this state.
- Roof Replacement — Two houses a mile apart in this city can need different specifications, because one sits on the valley floor and one sits on the hill above it. We price a replacement only after we know which one you have.
- Roof Leak Repair — A leak that returns to the same spot every winter is telling you something about the building, not only about the roofing. Around here the answer usually depends on which side of the hill you live on.
See the full list of Kent services, or call (888) 629-7315.
About Des Moines, WA — and why local matters here
Des Moines sits in King County with a population of roughly 32,888, close enough to Kent that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Des Moines Marina, Highline College on Pacific Highway South.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Des Moines 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.
Popular services in Des Moines: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Burien, WA and the Green River valley and south King County.