Tulsa Premium Roofing: Replacement, Repair, Metal, Low-Slope & Commercial
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Measured quotes, a written scope, and your address checked against the overlay map first.
- ✓Oklahoma-registered roofing contractor, certificate filed with the state board
- ✓Your address checked against the city's eight overlay districts first
- ✓Dated, scaled roof photographs and a written scope before any tear-off
- ✓Workmanship warranty in writing, with its term printed on the contract
Why Tulsa Chooses Tulsa Premium Roofing
- ✓We look up your zoning before we quote, so nobody discovers a review requirement halfway through a tear-off with the deck already open to weather.
- ✓We identify the original covering from physical evidence in the eave, the attic and the flashing, not from a guess made standing in the driveway.
- ✓We price the honest option first. Putting the same covering back is often cheaper, faster and free of review, and we will say so before we sell an upgrade.
- ✓Our eave carpentry is done by people who can repair a rafter tail and a bracket rather than wrap the whole assembly in aluminum and call it maintenance.
- ✓We write the approval requirement into the contract, so the schedule you are shown accounts for the commission calendar rather than pretending it does not exist.
- ✓We photograph every deck before it is covered, which is the only record anyone will ever have of what was underneath your finished roof.
How It Works
Address check, then roof measure
Before we quote, we look up whether the property sits inside Gillette, North Maple Ridge, Swan Lake, Yorktown, Brady Heights, Tracy Park, Elmwood or the Council Oak site. That answer decides whether your covering choice is open or constrained, and it costs nothing to know on day one.
A scope that names the covering
You get a written scope listing the covering by product and profile, the underlayment, the metal used at each flashing, the nailing pattern and the haul-off. Naming the covering matters here, because a scope that says the same material going back on is a scope that needs no commission review.
Approvals before the dumpster lands
If the work does need review, we assemble the application, the photographs and the product data first. Some approvals are issued by preservation staff without a hearing, others go on the commission agenda. Either way, nobody tears a roof off and then finds out the answer was no.
Tear-off, install, paperwork back
We strip to the deck, replace what is soft, and install with the fastening the manufacturer requires rather than the one that goes fastest. You get photographs of the deck before it was covered, the warranty registration, and the approval numbers if the job carried any.
Our Roofing Services in Tulsa, OK
Roof Replacement
A replacement here starts with a question most bidders skip: how is the address zoned. That answer decides whether your covering choice is wide open or already narrowed, and finding out costs nothing on the first phone call.
Roof Leak Repair
Almost no roof in this city leaks through the middle of a slope. It leaks where two things meet, and on stock this old the meetings are original details that have outlived four coverings above them.
Storm Damage Restoration
Storm work splits into two jobs that get confused constantly. One is stabilization, which happens tonight.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail is the least interesting thing about roofing in Oklahoma. Every contractor in the state leads with it, every homeowner already knows the sky does this, and knowing it changes almost nothing about how a job runs.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind does not take a roof apart at random. It takes the ridge and the rake, and it takes them in that order, because those are the two edges where a pressure difference gets underneath the covering and starts prying.
Roof Inspections
An inspection in this city answers two questions, not one. The obvious question is how much life is left.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt is the covering the city itself points at. The residential design guidelines say in plain words that architectural shingles are encouraged, and they define the term to include laminates that simulate shake, slate or other historic materials.
Metal Roofing
This is the page where we talk a good number of readers out of the product. Metal is an excellent roof and we install it well, but in parts of Tulsa it is either forbidden outright or expensive in a way that has nothing to do with the metal.
Tile Roofing
Tile is a small share of Tulsa roofs and a large share of the roofs worth arguing about. It shows up on the Spanish and Mediterranean houses of the 1920s and on a scatter of institutional buildings, and it is named directly in the design guidelines as an original covering.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Downtown Tulsa and the older commercial strips are masonry buildings from the 1920s through the 1960s, and nearly all of them wear low-slope roofs hidden behind parapets. The city's non-residential guidelines name tar-and-gravel among the original coverings, which tells you what is usually underneath.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
A coating is a restoration, not a roof. Used on the right substrate it is the cheapest honest thing we sell.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation on a modern house is a checklist item. On Tulsa's older stock it is a design problem, because the standard fix depends on a soffit that a great many of these houses simply do not have.
Skylights
Skylights on old Tulsa houses are governed by one word, and the word is visible. The city's guidelines exempt rooftop items that cannot be seen from abutting streets and require anything attached to a historic roof to be reversible and to leave the covering undamaged.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters get treated as a trim item and priced by the foot. On an older Tulsa house they are drainage engineering attached to a hundred-year-old fascia board, and both halves of that sentence deserve attention.
Fascia & Soffit
The standard sales pitch on eaves is to wrap everything in aluminum so it never needs painting again. On a large share of Tulsa's housing stock that pitch is wrong, and in eight neighborhoods it is close to prohibited.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is the wettest thing on most old Tulsa roofs and the one detail where a shortcut is guaranteed to come back. It is also, in the eight overlay districts, a protected feature that you are not free to remove.
Emergency Tarping
Stabilizing a damaged building is not an alteration of anything, so nothing about preservation zoning slows this down. If water is coming into your house tonight, we come out and stop it, and the paperwork conversation happens later in daylight.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofing in Tulsa means a lot of masonry buildings put up between the oil boom and the freeway era, and it means understanding which rules attach to them and which do not. One clarification saves owners a great deal of worry.
Insurance Claim Help
The place roof claims go wrong in this city is not the damage assessment. It is the gap between what an adjuster scopes and what the address is actually permitted to have built.
What Tulsa Customers Say
They pulled the zoning on our address before quoting and told us we did not need a preservation permit because we were staying with asphalt. Saved us weeks. The tear-off crew found two soft sheets and showed us photographs.
Our claim covered one slope and they explained why the whole section had to go instead. They wrote the reasoning out so I could send it to the adjuster. It got approved, and the roof matches on all four sides now.
Old house, original rafter tails, and everybody else wanted to wrap them in metal. These people repaired the two rotten ends and primed the rest. Cost less than the wrap quote and the eave still looks like the house.
Flat roof over our shop had been coated three times by three different people. They cut test squares, found the wet insulation, and told us a fourth coating would be wasted money. Replaced the wet bays and coated the rest.
Tulsa Premium Roofing works on roof replacement, leak repair and post-storm restoration throughout Tulsa and the surrounding Green Country region, in asphalt laminate, standing seam metal, clay tile, and the built-up and single-ply assemblies that cover most of the older low-slope stock downtown. Residential and commercial, quoted from a measured roof rather than a driveway guess.
Nearly everything we touch here is old. Census table B25034 puts 63.8 percent of Tulsa housing units at pre-1980 construction and roughly 17,200 units at pre-1940, so the covering coming off is usually the third or fourth one that deck has carried. That changes what we measure: fastener holding, eave condition, and what the original covering actually was. Layers, fastener history and eave condition tell us more than the surface does.
It also changes what you are allowed to put back. Eight Tulsa neighborhoods carry historic preservation overlay zoning, and inside them any exterior repair or alteration has to be approved before work starts. We check your address against that map on the first call, because putting the same covering back skips review and switching materials does not. It is a two-minute lookup and it has saved people several thousand dollars.
About Tulsa Premium Roofing in Tulsa, OK
We work mostly on roofs that somebody else built a long time ago. Tulsa's housing stock skews old by any measure, and the interesting problems here are not the ones you find in a subdivision that went up in 2004. They are eave carpentry, flashing cut into soft mortar, and coverings that have to be identified before they can be replaced.
That is also why the first thing we do is look up an address rather than quote a square. Eight neighborhoods in this city have preservation overlay zoning, and inside them the roof is a regulated surface. Knowing that on the first phone call saves an argument later, and it occasionally saves a homeowner from paying for an approval they never needed.
If the lowest number always wins your business, we are the wrong contractor. We are not going to price a single-slope patch on a street-facing roof in an overlay district, because the city will not approve it. Nor will we lay fresh shingles over an existing layer to hold a price down. If that is what you are shopping for, someone else will do it, and you should call them instead.
Recent Projects Across Green Country
Service Areas
Tulsa Premium Roofing serves Tulsa, OK and surrounding communities including:
Low-slope and masonry commercial roofing across Tulsa's older core
Downtown Tulsa and the midtown commercial strips are largely masonry buildings from the 1920s through the 1960s, and their roofs are low-slope assemblies hidden behind parapets. The non-residential design guidelines name tar-and-gravel among the original coverings for a reason. We re-cover, restore and replace those roofs, and because they are almost never visible from the street, the material choice is usually wide open even inside an overlay district.
- ✓Built-up, modified bitumen, TPO, PVC and EPDM re-covers and full replacements
- ✓Tapered insulation cut to positive drainage on decks that never had any
- ✓Parapet through-wall flashing and coping replacement on masonry perimeters
- ✓Silicone and acrylic restoration coatings where the existing membrane is sound
- ✓Interior drain bowls, clamping rings and overflow scuppers rebuilt to code
- ✓Curb rebuilds and reflashing around rooftop mechanical equipment
- ✓Preservation permit applications assembled for buildings inside overlay zoning
- ✓Night and weekend phasing for tenanted offices, churches and retail blocks
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a re-roof in Tulsa need Preservation Commission approval?
Only if the property sits inside one of the eight historic preservation overlay districts. Inside them, any exterior alteration or repair has to be approved by the Tulsa Preservation Commission or its staff before work begins. The relief is written into the residential design guidelines at A.5.5: replacing an existing covering with the same material, asphalt back to asphalt, does not require permit review at all. Changing materials does, and that review is case by case.
Which Tulsa neighborhoods carry historic preservation zoning?
Eight, each approved on its own date: Gillette in 1989, the Council Oak Tree site in 1992, North Maple Ridge in 1993, Swan Lake in 1994, Yorktown in 1995, Brady Heights in 1999, the Elmwood and Patrick J. Hurley Mansion district in 2015, and Tracy Park in 2022. Most of Tulsa is outside all of them, which is why the address check comes first rather than last.
Is a standing seam metal roof allowed on my house?
Outside the overlay districts, yes, and we install it. Inside them the answer narrows. Yorktown does not allow metal roofing at all, a restriction written into the guidelines by name. Elmwood requires that the original historic roof material be matched. In the remaining districts a change of covering material is judged case by case on whether the new material holds the size, shape, pattern, texture and orientation of the old one.
My insurer wants to repair one slope. Is that enough?
Inside an overlay district it often is not. The guidelines say that when you replace a covering you replace the entire roof section if that section is visible from the street. An adjuster who has scoped a partial repair on a street-facing slope has scoped something the city will not approve, and that is a conversation to have with the carrier before the contract is signed rather than after the crew has started.
Is a roofing contractor licensed in Oklahoma?
Registered, not licensed, and the distinction is worth understanding. Oklahoma issues no general contractor license, but the Roofing Contractor Registration Act requires anyone who engages in or offers roofing work to hold a current registration with the Construction Industries Board. Registration proves workers compensation compliance and a liability certificate, not craftsmanship. Working without one is a misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to five hundred dollars.
What covering suits a 1920s Tulsa bungalow?
If the house is in an overlay district and already wears asphalt, an architectural laminate is the straightforward answer, and the city's own guidelines say architectural shingles are encouraged. If cedar or clay tile is original and still largely intact, repair usually beats replacement, because matching an old tile profile is slow and a partial re-lay preserves the texture nobody can buy back. Outside the districts you have a free hand, and we will still argue for the heavier laminate.