About Iowa Roof Guide

Iowa Roof Guide is a small, independent guide to roofs and roofers in Iowa. It started in Waukee and the Des Moines metro and covers Iowa's larger cities, from Ames and Cedar Rapids to the Quad Cities, Sioux City and Council Bluffs. It is run by Kasey, a Waukee resident. We are not a roofing company, we do not inspect roofs or handle insurance claims, and we do not sell roofing products or leads.

How we write our guides

• Sourced, not guessed. Facts come from public sources such as the Iowa Insurance Division, the Iowa Attorney General, the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL), the National Weather Service and NOAA, the U.S. Department of Energy, ENERGY STAR, and each city's own permit pages. Every guide lists its sources at the bottom with the date we checked them.
• Practical and local. We write for homeowners in Waukee, West Des Moines, Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale and the other Iowa cities we cover.
• Safety first. We never suggest climbing onto a roof after a storm or in winter. When a job is dangerous, we say to call a professional.
• No invented numbers. We do not publish prices, ratings, reviews or statistics unless they come from a cited public source.

Listing criteria

Our local roofers page lists roofing companies that serve the Iowa towns we cover. Every listing follows these rules:

• Checked on the company's own website. We add a company only after reading its own working site, not a review site, directory or lead-generation page. Each listing links to the pages we checked and shows the date we checked them.
• Real, local, identifiable business. The site has to identify the company and say it serves one of our Iowa towns. We skip template sites, out-of-state companies with no Iowa presence shown, call-routing pages, dead sites and businesses without their own website.
• Only what they publish. Phone numbers and addresses appear only if the company shows them on its own site. Services are taken from the company's own wording. A company is listed under a town only if its site names that town or shows an office there.
• Registration status, never a guess. We search every company in the State of Iowa's list of active construction contractor registrations. Each listing says registration found (with the number) when we found a clear, active match, no active registration found when we did not, or not confirmed when the result was unclear, with a short note. "Not found" may simply mean the company registered under a different legal name, so check yourself.
• No rankings, reviews, prices or paid placement. Nobody pays to be listed and there are no featured spots.
• Re-checked regularly. We aim to re-check listings about once a month and remove companies whose sites no longer support the listing.

Listings are informational, not endorsements. Always check a contractor's registration, insurance and references yourself before hiring. Is your business missing or wrong? Contact us to request a correction, addition or removal.

Corrections

Spotted something out of date or wrong? Please contact us and include the page and, if you can, a source. Each guide shows when it was last updated.