Aurora Roof Pros provides professional tile roofing in Aurora, IL for residential and commercial properties across the Fox River valley. We are going to spend this page arguing you out of a purchase. For almost every address in Aurora, a tile conversion is the wrong buy, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid someone for a design.
Concrete tile runs six hundred to eleven hundred pounds per square depending on profile. Clay is in the same territory. An asphalt roof weighs roughly two hundred and forty. Aurora's subdivision housing, which is most of the city by rooftop count, sits on engineered trusses designed in the 1990s and 2000s for the asphalt load they were built with and little else. Adding three or four times that dead load is a structural decision, not a finish decision.
It can be done. It requires a licensed structural engineer to evaluate the truss system, and frequently it requires reinforcement that costs more than the tile. Any contractor who quotes a tile conversion on a Kendall County subdivision house without naming an engineer in the proposal is either not thinking about it or hoping you will not. That is not caution on our part, it is simply the load path.
The east side is a different argument with the same conclusion. Rafter framing from the 1890s was sized for a heavier world and often will take tile, which is why original clay tile still stands on Aurora's older churches and civic buildings. But those houses are also where structure values are lowest and where the mapped flood hazard area runs, so a tile conversion becomes a very large improvement cost measured against a very small ceiling.
What we do instead is take care of the tile that already exists. Original clay on a pre-war building is a repairable roof, and the failure is virtually never the tile itself. What fails is the felt underneath, a thirty to forty year component sitting beneath a covering that lasts a century. We lift, sort and stack salvageable pieces, replace the felt with a self-adhered high-temperature membrane, and relay.
Individual cracked and slipped pieces we replace with salvage matched by profile and colour, not with the nearest concrete substitute from a supplier's yard. If you own original tile in Aurora, the correct advice is almost always to keep it, and the correct spend is on what sits under it. The underlayment is the purchase; the tile is already paid for.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — laminated fibreglass shingles meeting ASTM D3462 at six nails per shingle, 1x6 square-edge board sheathing with skip gaps over rafters at 24 inches, double-lock standing seam formed on site from 24-gauge steel coil, granulated cap sheet carried up the adjoining wall as a base flashing, step flashing woven course by course into soft common-brick sidewalls, chimney taken down below the deck line with a framed and sheathed infill — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Aurora and nearby communities including North Aurora, Montgomery, Oswego, Yorkville.
What We Handle
Everything our tile roofing in Aurora covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of tile roofing work in Aurora, IL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Aurora services.
Materials, equipment and how we do tile roofing
The difference between tile roofing that lasts and tile roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with laminated fibreglass shingles meeting ASTM D3462 at six nails per shingle, 1x6 square-edge board sheathing with skip gaps over rafters at 24 inches, double-lock standing seam formed on site from 24-gauge steel coil, granulated cap sheet carried up the adjoining wall as a base flashing, 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 Aurora 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 Fox River valley 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 tile roofing outside Aurora
Aurora Roof Pros covers Aurora and the surrounding communities of the Fox River valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Tile Roofing in North Aurora, IL — Kane County, population 18,261
- Tile Roofing in Montgomery, IL — Kane County, part in Kendall County, population 20,262
- Tile Roofing in Oswego, IL — Kendall County, part in Will County, population 34,585
- Tile Roofing in Yorkville, IL — Kendall County, population 21,533
- Tile Roofing in Batavia, IL — Kane County, part in DuPage County, population 26,098
- Tile Roofing in Geneva, IL — Kane County, population 21,393
Start on the Aurora Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Aurora Chooses Aurora Roof Pros
- ✓We read the Fox River flood map for your address before we price anything, because inside the mapped hazard area the city counts what you spend on the building and that count has a ceiling.
- ✓Every estimate states in one line whether we treat the work as maintenance, repair or improvement, and shows the figure against the structure's assessed improvement value.
- ✓On the low-lying older neighbourhoods we quote staged replacement by slope, so a house does not trip the fifty percent rule in a single season.
- ✓We refuse tile conversions on 1990s truss framing without a structural engineer's letter, and we say so before you have paid anyone for a design.
The standards behind tile roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The tile roofing work we do in Aurora 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 tile roofing project in Aurora 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 tile roofing free estimate in Aurora, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.