Farmington Roof Pros: Replacement, Repair, Flashing & Low-Slope Work
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Written, itemized estimates anywhere in San Juan County.
Every opening on the roof counted, photographed and priced separately·Written itemized scopes, with change orders in writing beforehand·Crews across Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Kirtland and Shiprock·We will tell you plainly when a reroof is premature
Farmington Roof Pros installs and repairs roofs across Farmington and the rest of San Juan County: asphalt shingle tear-offs, concrete tile, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, plus TPO and modified bitumen on low-slope decks, plus curb, flashing, flue and vent work. Residential and commercial, new work and repair. Every estimate arrives written, itemized, and priced penetration by penetration rather than as one lump figure.
That last phrase is the whole method rather than a slogan. A roof out here takes roughly eight inches of precipitation in a year, so the shingle field and the sheathing beneath it wear out through ultraviolet exposure and daily thermal movement instead of through soaking. Almost every gallon that genuinely reaches the surface arrives through hardware bolted into it, and then a long high-desert winter goes to work on whatever that hardware left behind.
We price the openings first and the field second, and we will happily tell you the field has years of service left. The work spans roof replacement, leak repair, wind and hail claims, inspections, coatings, ventilation, skylights, gutters, fascia, soffit, emergency tarping and commercial low-slope systems, from Kirtland and Shiprock east through Aztec, Bloomfield, Blanco and Navajo Dam.
Our Roofing Services in Farmington, NM
Roof Replacement
Most Farmington houses see one full reroof in an owner's lifetime, and the decision usually gets made about two years too early. Before anyone sells you a tear-off, somebody should look at what the field is actually doing under the granules.
Roof Leak Repair
Leaks in this valley keep a schedule. They cluster in April, when evaporative coolers come back online across the county, and again during the first hard freeze in November or December.
Storm Damage Restoration
Here is an unpopular sentence from a roofing company: most storm damage calls in San Juan County are not storm damage. The basin gets about eight inches of moisture a year, and genuinely catastrophic weather is uncommon.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail is real in the San Juan Basin and it is nothing like the Front Range or the Texas panhandle. We get it a handful of times in a season, usually pea to marble, and it very rarely reaches the size that functionally destroys a shingle.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind is the weather that actually damages roofs out here, and spring is when it does it. From March through May the basin funnels a steady downslope flow, and the gaps around the Hogback accelerate it in ways that surprise people who moved up from Albuquerque.
Roof Inspections
Our inspection calendar is late March and early October, and it is set by the cooler rather than by the sky. Those two windows are when a Farmington roof is most likely to be about to get wet, or to have just finished getting wet.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Roughly four out of five houses in Farmington wear asphalt shingles, and the way they die here is not the way the brochure describes it. Nothing rots.
Metal Roofing
Metal makes obvious sense in a dry, sunny, windy place, and standing seam is the best-performing residential roof we install. There is one condition attached to that recommendation, and it is the box sitting on your roof right now.
Tile Roofing
We install concrete tile, and on most Farmington houses our advice is to skip it. Tile is an excellent roof in Phoenix and a questionable one at 5,473 feet, and the reason is the freeze rather than the sun.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope decks in this county are equipment platforms first and roofs second. Package units, condensers, exhaust fans, gas piping, antennae and cooler stands all live up there, and every one of them is either a hole in the membrane or a foot standing on it.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
The most common thing we do on a coating call is decline the job. A roof coating is a legitimate product with a narrow correct use, and around here it gets sold constantly for problems it simply cannot fix.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation advice written for a humid climate will actively hurt a Farmington house, and it gets repeated here constantly. The reason is simple.
Skylights
Farmington gets a great deal of sun and very little cloud, which makes a skylight both more tempting and more dangerous here than in most of the country. The light is free.
Gutters & Downspouts
Plenty of Farmington houses do not need gutters, and we will tell you that before quoting a hundred and forty feet of aluminum trough. With about eight inches of annual precipitation, the case for full perimeter guttering is weaker here than in almost anywhere else we could be working.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia rot is the standard diagnosis everywhere else in the country and it is usually the wrong one here. Wood on a Farmington eave rarely rots.
Chimney Flashing
There is a striking split in this county. Inside Farmington's city limits only about two percent of homes heat with wood, but across San Juan County as a whole it is closer to thirteen percent, and every one of those is a live flue passing through a roof.
Emergency Tarping
The urgent roof call we take most often in Farmington arrives in December, and the correct first move is not a ladder. It is the water shutoff valve.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofing in San Juan County is shaped by two things that have very little to do with weather: the amount of equipment sitting on the deck, and what happened to the county's tax base when the coal plant closed. San Juan Generating Station retired its last unit in September 2022 after coming online in 1973, and the Four Corners plant next door has an end date of its own.
Insurance Claim Help
Most roofs in this county will never see a covered loss, which is worth stating before anything else. Insurance pays for sudden accidental damage, and the dominant failure mode here is slow ultraviolet aging, which no policy in existence covers.
Why Farmington Chooses Farmington Roof Pros
- ✓We quote the curbs, stacks and flues as their own line items, so you can see what the leak actually costs before deciding on the field.
- ✓Deck photographs go to you during the tear-off, not into a folder. Soft sheathing gets located and shown while there is still time to look at it.
- ✓Our inspection calendar runs late March and early October, matched to evaporative cooler startup and drain-down, because that is when a Farmington roof gets wet.
- ✓We refuse contingency agreements. You get a written price for the repair whether or not an insurer ever pays a dollar toward it.
- ✓Rebuilt penetrations are hose-tested from the low side up before the crew leaves, and you are welcome on the ladder to watch the test.
- ✓We say no to work. A field with years left and one bad curb gets a curb quote, not a fifteen-thousand-dollar tear-off proposal.
About Farmington Roof Pros in Farmington, NM
We are a roofing crew that works the San Juan Basin and very little else. That narrow range is the point. A company covering four states learns shingle brands; a company that only works Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Kirtland and the river communities learns that the wet part of a roof here is almost never the part the weather touches.
The building stock backs that up. Farmington's largest single decade of construction is the 1970s, when the gas boom put up close to four thousand homes, and roughly forty-seven percent of the housing here predates 1980. Those roofs have been reshingled two or three times over hardware that has often never been replaced once. We open that hardware up.
There are jobs we turn down. If your only leak is a ring around a cooler stand and the field still has a decade in it, we are not the right call for a full replacement, and we say so on the driveway instead of writing the bid. We also do not chase storm claims door to door, and we will not sign a contingency agreement that hands us your roof before an adjuster has seen it.
Service Areas
Farmington Roof Pros serves Farmington, NM and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
We count the openings before we quote
The first visit is a walk with a tally sheet. Every stack, cap, flue, skylight, cooler stand and curb gets photographed and measured. Half the roofs we look at have between nine and fourteen holes in them, and the owner has never seen a single one up close.
You get a scope, not a number
The written estimate separates field work from opening work, line by line, with quantities. If the curb rebuild is four hundred dollars and the tear-off is fifteen thousand, you can read both and decide. Nothing is bundled into a vague allowance, and change orders go in writing before anyone touches them.
Deck exposed, photographed, then covered
On a tear-off the sheathing gets inspected in daylight and shot with a camera whether or not there is a problem. Soft plank, delaminated panel edges and old cooler-line cuts are called out with locations. You see those photographs before underlayment goes down, not afterward in an invoice.
Water test, then a seasonal handoff
Rebuilt openings get hose-tested from the low side upward before we roll the hose. Then we walk you through what needs doing in March when the cooler comes back online and in October when it is drained, because that calendar decides whether the detail we just built survives its first winter.
Recent Projects Across the San Juan Basin
What Farmington Customers Say
They found the leak in twenty minutes and it was the cooler sleeve, not the roof. Charged me for a curb rebuild and told me the shingles had eight or nine years left. Honest people.
Full tear-off on a 1978 house. They photographed the plank decking before covering it and showed me two soft spots near the flue. The written scope matched the final invoice to the dollar.
Called in December when a line burst above the ceiling. They shut the water off first, then dried and patched the sleeve the same afternoon. Explained why it was not a roof claim.
Standing seam on the shop and a new curb for the cooler on the house. Clean work, no leftover fasteners in the yard, and they came back in spring to check the detail.
Low-slope, equipment-heavy commercial roofs across San Juan County
Commercial work here means equipment. A Main Street storefront, an oilfield service yard off the Bloomfield highway, a clinic or a school in the county — each carries package units, exhaust fans, condensers, gas piping and cooler stands on a deck that sees almost no rain. The membrane usually outlives the curbs by a decade. We survey the equipment field first, price curbs and penetrations as their own schedule, and keep tenants open throughout.
- ✓TPO and modified bitumen systems installed, patched and restored
- ✓Curb rebuilds and equipment rail work without shutting the building
- ✓Pitch-pan replacement and gas line support corrections on low-slope decks
- ✓Drain, scupper and overflow work sized to the actual roof area
- ✓Annual inspection and maintenance agreements with photo documentation
- ✓Coating restoration where the membrane still has service life left
- ✓Night and weekend scheduling for retail and clinic tenants
- ✓Tear-off and re-cover options priced side by side in writing
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a permit to reroof a house inside Farmington?
Yes, and the city runs its own Building Inspection Division out of the annex on Municipal Drive rather than routing the paperwork to a state office. Reroof permits are pulled and inspected locally. Outside the city limits the jurisdiction changes, which is worth confirming before work starts in Lee Acres, Crouch Mesa or Flora Vista, because the sequence of inspections is not identical.
Does New Mexico actually license roofing contractors?
It does. The Construction Industries Division of the Regulation and Licensing Department issues a specialty classification, GS-21, covering roofing systems, and it carries a trade exam plus a business and law exam with a three-year renewal cycle. Ask for the license number and verify it. That is a real, verifiable filter, and it is not something a truck with out-of-state plates can produce.
My swamp cooler drips onto the roof. Is that a roofing job?
Partly. The cooler itself is a mechanical appliance, and a plumber or HVAC tech should handle the pan, float, pump and bleed line. What we own is everything the appliance sits on and passes through: the stand, the curb, the flashing skirt, the sleeve where the supply line enters, and the deck under all of it. Most callers need both trades and only phone one.
How long should a shingle roof last at this elevation?
Shorter than the wrapper promises, and rain has nothing to do with why. At 5,473 feet the ultraviolet load is heavy, and the daily temperature range drives the asphalt binder out of the mat. A thirty-year architectural shingle installed in Farmington is realistically a twenty-to-twenty-five-year roof, and the south and west slopes go first by a wide margin.
A canvasser knocked and says I have hail damage. Now what?
Get a second opinion from somebody who is not selling the claim. Real hail bruising leaves soft, granule-free circles with a fractured mat you can feel with a thumb. Blistering, mechanical scuffing from a cooler service call and ordinary granule loss all look similar from the driveway and none of them are covered. A denied claim still sits in your loss history.
When in the year should the roof get looked at?
Late March and early October, tied to the cooler calendar instead of the weather. In March, before the water is turned back on, is when a split line or a cracked pan is cheap to find. In October, right after the drain-down, is when you catch a season of bleed-off staining and a sleeve that has worked loose. Storm-season inspections matter far less here.