Dubuque Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Rickardsville, IA — Dubuque County, population 202. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Rickardsville homes and businesses.
Rickardsville property owners near St. Joseph Church at Rickardsville, the Rickardsville Road ridge corridor count on Dubuque Premium Roofing for roof replacement and repair in Rickardsville. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Dubuque to every job in Rickardsville, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 516-6732 for a free roofing estimate in Rickardsville, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Rickardsville, IA
Two separate hailstorms hit Rickardsville on the same day. On 11 September 2000 stones of an inch and three quarters were reported at 10:49 in the morning and again at 3:50 that afternoon. No other town in our area carries two severe hail reports six hours apart.
The wind file is shorter and heavier. A seventy-knot gust tracked from Holy Cross toward Rickardsville on 22 July 2010 with $100,000 in property damage logged, and a fifty-six-knot gust crossed town on 15 July 2024. Both were logged under Dubuque County, which is the office you would call about a rural address here.
Snow collects up here more than it does below. On 22 January 2019 the trained-spotter range across Dubuque County ran from five and a half inches at Asbury to six inches at Rickardsville. A spotter on the west side of the village reported four inches on 10 November 2019.
Ninety-four housing units, every one of them detached single-family, ninety-seven percent owner-occupied, median build year 1973, median value near $246,400. Only fifteen percent predates 1940, which is low for a place this old and tells you the village rebuilt rather than preserved. Ninety-four units is the whole census count for this city.
A 1970s roof on a crest lot has usually been replaced once and detailed badly. The thing we find most often is original step flashing reinstalled under a newer covering, still carrying its old nail holes, at the point where a garage or porch roof dies into a wall.
We photograph that before quoting and the photograph goes into the proposal. If the honest answer is three flashings corrected and no covering work at all, the proposal says exactly that, and the number is a few hundred dollars. We are not going to sell a replacement to avoid the awkwardness of quoting a small job.
The drive up here is real and it goes on the quote as its own line rather than buried in a square price. A small job at the end of a long haul costs what it costs, and pretending otherwise is how a crew rushes the only part of the work that mattered. It is also why we batch village work when we can, and we will say so if waiting two weeks saves you money.
About Rickardsville, IA — and why local matters here
Rickardsville sits in Dubuque County with a population of roughly 202, close enough to Dubuque that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include St. Joseph Church at Rickardsville, the Rickardsville Road ridge corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Rickardsville properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Dubuque 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.
Getting a free estimate in Rickardsville
Call (877) 516-6732 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Rickardsville, 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 Sherrill, IA and the rest of Dubuque County and the Driftless. Everything starts at the Dubuque Premium Roofing homepage.
Roofing work we do in Rickardsville, IA
Dubuque Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Rickardsville that we do in Dubuque — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail on asphalt leaves a mark you can find from a test square. Hail on slate leaves a hairline fracture that is invisible from the ground and often invisible from the ladder too.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Roofs do not blow off from the center out. The failure starts at an eave, a rake or a ridge and works its way in, so most of what we repair after a windy night sits within three feet of an edge.
- Roof Inspections — You cannot inspect most Dubuque roofs from a ladder at the eave. The house is three stories on the downhill side, the pitch is often too steep to walk, and half the interesting detail is where a roof plane dies into a masonry wall you cannot see from the street.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Asphalt is the right answer on most Dubuque roofs and the wrong answer on some of them. The line runs roughly where the housing stock changes: post-war and newer, asphalt without hesitation; pre-1900 with slate or clay still on it, we are going to argue with you first.
- Metal Roofing — Standing seam makes more sense in Dubuque than the sticker price suggests, and the reason is the access argument rather than anything about the metal. If getting to your roof is half the job, a covering that lasts twice as long halves how often you pay for the hard part.
- Clay Tile and Slate Roofs — Dubuque has genuine slate and genuine clay tile on its older buildings, and on a roof like that the right answer is nearly always repair. We turn down more tear-offs on this page than on all the others together.
See the full list of Dubuque services, or call (877) 516-6732.
Popular services in Rickardsville: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Sherrill, IA and Dubuque County and the Driftless.