Roofing Contractor in Healdsburg, CA

Rea Roofing Inc. works across all of it — the fussy historic roofs in town, the utilitarian barn and shop roofs on the ag properties, and the high-end metal and flat-roof work on the contemporary houses going up in the hills around the valley.

The Kincade Fire in October 2019 put essentially the whole city under evacuation order, and it changed how people here think about roofing. Fire-rated assemblies are now a standard part of the conversation rather than a code box to tick, particularly on properties out toward Chalk Hill, Geyserville and the eastern hills where wildland-urban interface requirements apply directly.

The Victorian housing stock has its own set of problems. Steep, cut-up roofs with dormers, turrets, dead valleys and multiple wall terminations give water dozens of opportunities to get in, and many of those details were last addressed with sealant rather than metal. On a historic Healdsburg home the flashing schedule matters far more than the shingle brand.

Then there is the Russian River corridor and the tree canopy along it. Oak and redwood debris loads valleys and gutters heavily through the fall, and the wet season here is genuinely wet. Roofs that drain well and get cleared stay ahead of it; roofs with packed valleys back water up under the covering and leak in the first sustained storm.