Roofers in Savannah, GA

Most people looking for roofers in Savannah are not shopping for a brand. They have a stain on a ceiling tile, a lifted ridge cap after a storm, or a building that is coming up on a lease renewal and needs a roof that will hold. What they want to know is simple. Who is going to show up, what do they actually know how to do, and can they be trusted on the property.

Coastal Roofing of Georgia is run by Allen Martin, Partner. The company works out of Richmond Hill and covers Savannah, the rest of Chatham County, and the surrounding Coastal Georgia counties. We are not a call center that farms work out to whoever is available. The people who inspect your roof, write your scope, and run the crew on install day all work for the same company, and they answer to the same person.

Our roofers split their time between two kinds of work. Commercial and industrial low-slope roofing makes up the larger share: single-ply membrane, metal, and coating systems on warehouses, retail centers, offices, schools, churches, and medical buildings. The rest is residential steep-slope work, mostly asphalt shingle and metal, on houses across Savannah and the surrounding towns. A lot of roofing companies do one or the other. Doing both is what lets us send the right crew instead of the only crew.

If you have already narrowed your search and just want to see the full menu, our Savannah roofing services page lays out every service we offer in one place.

Our residential roofers work on houses from the historic squares downtown to the newer subdivisions out toward Pooler and Georgetown. The mix of housing stock in this city is unusual. A 1910 home off Bull Street and a 2019 build in Southbridge have almost nothing in common structurally, and the roofers who treat them the same way tend to leave problems behind.

On older Savannah homes the issues are usually decking, flashing, and ventilation. Original rafters may have taken on moisture over decades. Chimney and sidewall flashing installed in the 1970s is often the actual leak source even when the shingles look fine. Attic ventilation is frequently undersized for a climate this humid, which cooks shingles from underneath and shortens their life. We check all three before quoting a reroof, because replacing shingles over a bad deck or a starved attic just resets the clock on the same failure.

On newer homes the work is more straightforward: storm damage, wind-lifted shingles, failed pipe boots, and full replacements as builder-grade roofs reach the end of their run. Coastal Georgia is hard on asphalt. Heat, UV, humidity, and salt air all shorten the practical life of a shingle roof compared to what the package on the bundle promises.

Homeowners can compare options on our residential roofing page, or go straight to roof repair in Savannah, GA if something is leaking right now. If you are weighing a longer-lasting system, our metal roofing in Savannah, GA page covers standing seam and the coastal finishes that hold up to salt air.

We are local roofers in Savannah in the literal sense. Our base is Richmond Hill, a short run down Highway 17, and our crews are on Savannah roofs on a regular basis rather than driving in from another state when the weather turns. Local Savannah roofers save you time on the things nobody thinks about until they matter: scheduling around your building's hours, handling a warranty callback without a road trip, and knowing which permit office to call.

Inside the city we work the Historic District and downtown, Ardsley Park and Midtown, the Southside, Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt, Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands, Skidaway Island, and Tybee Island. West of town we cover Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Bloomingdale, and the industrial corridor along Dean Forest Road and the port.

Outside Chatham County our roofers also serve Richmond Hill and Bryan County, Hinesville, Pembroke, Statesboro, Rincon and Effingham County, Brunswick and the Golden Isles, and up into the South Carolina Lowcountry around Bluffton, Hilton Head Island, and Beaufort. The full list is on our areas we serve page.

Coastal roofs are their own category of work. Salt-laden air corrodes exposed fasteners and edge metal, summer humidity feeds algae and rot, and hurricane season sets the wind rating your roof has to meet. Savannah GA roofers who work inland every day are not wrong, they are just solving a different problem. We spec corrosion-resistant fasteners, sealed edge metal, and wind-rated attachment as the default here because the marsh and the ocean are close enough to make it necessary.

The days before the crew arrives, you get a schedule and a materials list, and we confirm where the dumpster and the delivery are going. On commercial jobs we coordinate with building management on access, tenant notification, and any hours the work has to stay clear of.

On install day the crew arrives early, because in a Savannah summer the productive hours are the ones before the afternoon heat. Landscaping and vehicles get protected, tear-off begins, and the deck gets inspected as it is exposed. If we find rotten decking, we stop and show you before replacing it. Deck repair is the most common change order in roofing, and the honest way to handle it is a photo and a conversation, not a line item that appears on the final invoice.

Dry-in happens the same day the tear-off does. We do not leave an open deck overnight, because afternoon storms here are not a hypothetical. Underlayment, then the roof system, then the details: flashing, edge metal, ventilation, penetrations. The details take longer than the field and they are where a roof succeeds or fails.

Cleanup includes a magnet sweep of the drive, walkways, and yard for nails, every time. Then a final walkthrough, photos of the completed work, and the warranty paperwork. Our full four-phase process is documented on our process page.