A look at recent roofing, siding, gutter, and flat-roof projects we've completed across Southeast Wisconsin.
Featured projects, explained
Photos only tell you what a roof or siding job looks like on the day it was finished. Here's what actually went into a few of the projects above — the scope, the conditions we found once we opened things up, and the decisions that determine whether the work still looks like this in fifteen years.
Richfield, WI — Full LP SmartSide Re-Side
Location:
Richfield, Washington County
Scope:
LP SmartSide lap siding, seamless gutters, soffit & fascia
This Washington County home came to us with tired, faded vinyl that had chalked out on the sun-facing elevations and cracked around the garage returns. We stripped the house to the sheathing, corrected what we found underneath, and installed LP SmartSide engineered wood lap siding with matching trim on every elevation — front, rear, garage side, and the gable transitions. New seamless gutters, soffit, and fascia went on at the same time so the drainage and ventilation were replaced as one system instead of patched around new siding. The before-and-after pairs in the gallery are shot from the same angles so you can judge the work honestly.
Vinyl vs. LP SmartSide in Cavern Steel — Side-by-Side
Location:
Southeast Wisconsin
Scope:
Siding comparison — vinyl replaced with LP SmartSide
Three of the gallery images are true side-by-side comparisons of the same walls before and after: the long side elevation, the front patio, and the garage front. They're worth studying if you're deciding between vinyl and engineered wood. The Cavern Steel color reads deep charcoal in full sun and softer gray on overcast days, and the wider, thicker profile of LP SmartSide casts a real shadow line that vinyl can't reproduce. Engineered wood also holds fasteners better in Wisconsin's freeze-thaw cycle and won't crack when a stray hailstone catches it at 20 degrees.
Copper Standing Seam Metal — Stone Home & Rooftop Deck
Location:
Hillside lakefront property, Southeast Wisconsin
Scope:
Standing seam metal roofing over stone facade, garage entry, and walkout
Standing seam is unforgiving work — every panel, hem, and transition is visible from the ground, and the roof wraps a stone facade, a garage entry, and a walkout with rooftop deck. Panels were run continuous where possible to eliminate horizontal seams, with concealed clips that let the metal move as it expands and contracts through a Wisconsin year. Done right, this is a 50-plus year roof that sheds snow, carries a Class 4 impact rating, and never needs another tear-off.
Lakefront Low-Slope Roof — Tear-Off Through Membrane
Location:
Wisconsin lakefront home
Scope:
Low-slope tear-off, underlayment, and membrane installation
Flat and low-slope sections are where most residential roofs actually fail, usually where a porch or addition ties into the main roof. This sequence shows the whole job: aerial tear-off and prep, underlayment down and squared, then membrane installed with heat-welded seams and detailed edge metal. Low-slope work is a different trade from shingles — if the contractor bidding your porch roof is planning to shingle it, get another bid.
Steep Tear-Off & Chimney Rebuild
Location:
Dodge & Fond du Lac County area
Scope:
Full tear-off to decking, chimney rebuild, flashing, architectural shingles
The storm photos in this gallery aren't marketing shots — they're what a roof looks like once the shingles come off. On this project the tear-off exposed a chimney with rotted wood framing and rusted-through flashing that had been shingled over by a previous contractor. We rebuilt the chase and installed proper step flashing and counter flashing before a single new shingle went on. That's the part you never see from the driveway, and it's the part that decides whether the roof leaks in year seven.
How to read a contractor's photo gallery
Anyone can post a picture of a finished roof. What tells you whether a contractor knows the trade is the work that happens between tear-off and cleanup, so here's what to look for in ours — and in everyone else's.
Flashing close-ups. Chimneys, sidewalls, and skylights are where roofs leak. If a gallery has fifty finished-roof shots and zero flashing details, that's a choice.
Decking photos. A tear-off shot with clean, fully exposed decking means we inspected the substrate instead of shingling over soft spots.
Ventilation. Continuous ridge venting and matching intake at the soffit is what keeps ice dams and attic condensation off your ceiling in a Wisconsin February.
Before-and-after from the same angle. Matched angles let you evaluate the work. Mismatched angles let the contractor hide the parts that didn't go well.
A clean site at the end. The dump trailer and empty driveway in our final shots aren't an accident — how a team leaves your yard says a lot about how they treated your roof.
Where these projects were built
Every project in this gallery is a real Wisconsin home within our service area. We're owner- operated out of Brownsville and work across Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Jefferson Counties — including Fond du Lac, Beaver Dam, Mayville, Watertown, Waupun, Lomira, Campbellsport, Horicon, Hartford, West Bend, Richfield, Germantown, Slinger, and the surrounding lake communities. If your home is in that radius, the same owner who supervised these installs will be the one walking your roof.
