What a Free Roof Inspection Includes in Oklahoma City

A free roof inspection in Oklahoma City is a walk of your roof, not a glance from the driveway. CRE Roofing gets on the roof, chalks and photographs damage, checks the soft metals, vents and decking that adjusters look at, and tells you in plain language whether you need a repair, a full replacement, or nothing. CRE Roofing is the roofing division of Clean Residential Energy LLC, family-owned in Warr Acres since December 2018. Oklahoma roofing registration #80007347. Office: 5601 NW 72nd St, Suite 345, Warr Acres, OK 73132. Call (405) 234-7929, or book the free inspection and choose “Roof inspection after a storm” if that is why you are calling.

What we actually do on the roof

The claim is won or lost on the inspection. The most common reason an Oklahoma hail claim gets denied is not that the damage was missing. It is that nobody documented it as functional damage rather than cosmetic.

Here is what a CRE Roofing inspection includes, in the order we actually do it:

• We get on the roof. A drive-by is not an inspection.
• We chalk and photograph hail impacts. A test square goes on each slope so a later adjuster visit is looking at the same roof.
• We check the soft metals, vents and decking that adjusters look at. Vent caps and gutter aprons bruise before shingles do.
• We look for wind lift and creased shingles. A creased shingle has broken its seal. It can lie flat again and still be damaged.
• We look at flashing, pipe boots, ridge and the gutter line. Failed pipe boots are the single most common leak we find.
• We photograph what we find and walk you through it in plain language.

Functional hail damage is a fracture in the shingle mat under the granules. The roof can look fine from the driveway and still be finished. Granule piles in the gutters and dents in soft metal are corroborating evidence, not the whole case. More on that distinction: functional vs cosmetic hail damage.

What we photograph inside, before anyone cleans

Photograph interior water, stained ceilings or wet insulation before you clean anything up. That is for the claim file, not for drama. If the ceiling is sagging with trapped water, relieve it at the low point so it drains in one place instead of bringing the drywall down. Do not climb onto a wet roof. More Oklahoma homeowners get hurt in the hour after a storm than during it.

If siding or gutters took the same storm, photograph them on the first visit. Same storm, same loss, one deductible. We also do siding and gutters without a roof.

What you leave with

Photos. A plain-language answer. Repair, replace, or nothing. We do not get paid more for saying replacement.

Repair when the damage is confined, the rest of the roof has service life, the shingles are not brittle, and there is no valid storm claim covering the whole roof. Replace when hail bruising is on every slope, the mat cracks when it flexes, there have been repeated repairs in different places, or the roof is old enough that the next storm ends it. That test is on our roof repair page.

On a patch, a shingle match is usually close and rarely perfect. We will say how noticeable it will be on a visible slope.

The inspection is free and no-obligation. In the Oklahoma City metro we usually schedule within 48 hours. Warr Acres is the shortest drive we make, because the office sits on NW 72nd Street. Outside the metro it depends on where crews are that week. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. After hours, call (405) 234-7929 and leave a message.

After a storm we can get a tarp on to stop water entering the house while the claim and the schedule get sorted out. We do not claim a 2-hour or 60-minute tarping guarantee.

If insurance might be involved

Get the roof inspected and documented before you call the carrier, when there is time. Filing a claim that gets denied still goes on your record. If there is no claim worth filing, we say so.

If you file, you file it. We do not file it for you. We meet the adjuster on the roof with test squares already chalked. We handle supplements. We will not act as a public adjuster. You still own the claim. You still pay the deductible. The sequence is on our insurance claims page.

Since November 1, 2023, Oklahoma law has prohibited a roofing contractor from paying, waiving, absorbing, or rebating the deductible, or offering to. More on the statute: Can Your Roofer Pay Your Deductible in Oklahoma?.

Shingle crews are subcontracted, which is normal at our size, and we say it out loud. The electricians are in-house — two on staff — so a bent service mast can be looked at on the same storm inspection. Residential electrical only. There is no after-hours electrical dispatch.

This article is contractor experience from inspections in the Oklahoma City metro. It is not a coverage determination and it is not legal advice. For a specific policy or claim, talk to your agent, your carrier, or the Oklahoma Insurance Department.

Warr Acres, Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Moore

Warr Acres is the home city. The office is on NW 72nd Street. A lot of the housing is mid-century and single-story. A lot of those roofs are on a second or third life. Attics often were never ventilated to a modern standard.

We work the whole Oklahoma City metro, but we are a northwest-side company by geography: Northwest Expressway, the Village, Bethany, Warr Acres, Quail Creek.

Edmond is the north metro, I-35 corridor. Newer additions often have steeper, more complex geometry — valleys, dormers, flashing — and HOAs may need material or color approval.

Moore is the south metro. Moore saw tornadoes in 1999 and 2013, and a large share of the housing has been rebuilt or re-roofed since. Newer roofs do not mean immune roofs.

We also work Yukon, Norman, Bethany, and Mustang.

Who should inspect it

A registered local roofer, not the crew that knocks after the storm. Ask for the Oklahoma roofing registration number. Ours is #80007347, verifiable through the Construction Industries Board. Do not sign with anyone who offers to cover the deductible.

Book the inspection

Call (405) 234-7929. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. After hours, leave a message. Or book a free, no-obligation inspection. You get photos, a plain-language answer, and no pressure to file a claim that is not there.

Office: 5601 NW 72nd St, Suite 345, Warr Acres, OK 73132. Email: Sales@cleanresidentialenergy.com.