Shreveport Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Shreveport, LA for residential and commercial properties across the Ark-La-Tex. A chimney is a hole cut through a roof plane with masonry standing in it, and on this parish there is one question worth asking before any of the flashing work gets quoted at all. Is this chimney still doing anything?
A great many of them are not. Across the older housing here, gas conversion decommissioned the flue decades ago, and what stands above the roof line is an unlined stack serving no purpose except to leak. Where that is the case, the honest option is often to take the stack below the deck, sheathe and frame the opening, then roof straight across it. It is cheaper than a proper reflash and it removes the leak permanently.
If the chimney is live, the flashing has to be built rather than caulked. Step flashing goes in course by course up both sides, an apron across the front, and the counterflashing gets let into a raked joint in the masonry and sealed there, not surface-mounted with a bead of sealant run against the face of the brick. Surface-mount fails within a few years because the mortar joint keeps moving and the sealant does not.
The upslope side needs a cricket on anything wider than about thirty inches. Without one, water and debris pile up against the back of the stack and simply sit there between rains. On a wooded lot in a parish that is over half forest, that pile is almost always pine needles, and it stays wet long after the rest of the roof has dried out completely.
Masonry condition decides the sequence of work. On the pre-war housing through the Highland and South Highlands districts the brick is frequently soft-fired and the mortar lime-based, and cutting a hard reglet into that can do considerably more harm than good. Those chimneys get repointed by a mason before we flash them, and we say so up front rather than working around the problem. A mason's day rate is cheaper than reflashing the same chimney twice.
We do not paint sealant over an old flashing and call the job repaired. If a detail needs opening up, it gets opened up, photographed, and rebuilt from the deck outward. And where the answer is that the stack should simply come down, we say so, even though removal is the smaller invoice.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — Class 4 impact-rated laminate shingles tested to UL 2218, self-adhered eave membrane held to the first course line, 26-gauge painted steel drip edge lapped over the underlayment, half-inch CDX sheathing scabbed over one-by plank decking, tapered polyiso built to a quarter-inch-per-foot drain slope, gutter trough in .032 aluminum sized for a static ice load — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Shreveport and nearby communities including Bossier City, Minden, Red Chute, Springhill.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Shreveport covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Shreveport, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing repair shreveport
- chimney leak repair la
- chimney counterflashing caddo parish
- chimney cricket installation
- chimney reflashing bossier city
- masonry chimney roof leak
- chimney chase cover
- chimney removal reroof shreveport
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Shreveport services.
Materials, equipment and how we do chimney flashing
The difference between chimney flashing that lasts and chimney flashing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with Class 4 impact-rated laminate shingles tested to UL 2218, self-adhered eave membrane held to the first course line, 26-gauge painted steel drip edge lapped over the underlayment, half-inch CDX sheathing scabbed over one-by plank decking, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Shreveport job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in the Ark-La-Tex means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do chimney flashing outside Shreveport
Shreveport Roof Pros covers Shreveport and the surrounding communities of the Ark-La-Tex. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Chimney Flashing in Bossier City, LA — Bossier Parish, population 62,701
- Chimney Flashing in Minden, LA — Webster Parish, population 11,928
- Chimney Flashing in Red Chute, LA — Bossier Parish, population 7,065
- Chimney Flashing in Springhill, LA — Webster Parish, population 4,801
- Chimney Flashing in Mansfield, LA — De Soto Parish, population 4,714
- Chimney Flashing in Haughton, LA — Bossier Parish, population 4,539
Start on the Shreveport Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Shreveport Chooses Shreveport Roof Pros
- ✓We quote impact class before wind class, because this parish sits nowhere near the 140 mph ultimate design wind speed the code uses to draw a wind-borne debris region.
- ✓No eave membrane runs the whole deck on a Shreveport house. Nothing here builds a snowpack to dam behind, and the plan shows you where that membrane stops paying for itself.
- ✓Winter inspections are done at the thaw rather than during the event, because a glazed roof hides every defect it just caused and walking one is how people get hurt.
- ✓Fascia is measured and priced alongside the gutter, since a trough packed with ice pulls through soft pine long before it pulls a hanger out of anything.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Shreveport follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every chimney flashing project in Shreveport gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free chimney flashing free estimate in Shreveport, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.