Elko Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Ely, NV — White Pine County, population 3,924. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Ely homes and businesses.
Ely property owners near the Nevada Northern Railway shops, the Egan Range count on Elko Roof Pros for roof replacement and repair in Ely. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Elko to every job in Ely, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 937-0229 for a free roofing estimate in Ely, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Ely, NV
Ely will not publish a snow load, and that is the most useful thing to know before anyone quotes you a roof here. The city's building department states plainly that the snow load varies and that it will verify the number for your project from a case study for your altitude once it has your application.
White Pine County says the same for the unincorporated areas: the ground snow load varies, call for the load. It is the only jurisdiction we work in that refuses to print a figure, and it is defensible in a county where the ground runs from the valley floor to well over seven thousand feet within a few miles.
The rest of the criteria are published and they differ from Elko's. Ely works from the 2018 building and residential codes with the 2011 National Electrical Code, a frost depth of 36 inches against Elko's 30, seismic category D or C, a 115 mph three-second gust, Exposure C and 1,500 pound soils.
There is a jurisdictional wrinkle worth naming. The city and the county building offices both sit at 501 Mill Street and the planning manager carries a county address, but they are separate authorities: the city permits inside the city limits and the county permits the unincorporated areas only. The state building officials' adopted codes list still shows White Pine County adopting none, which contradicts the county's own published list.
Ely's housing is genuinely old. Of 2,032 units, 502 date to 1939 or earlier, 391 to the 1950s and 234 to the 1960s, for a median build year of 1958, with a later bump of 283 units in the 2000s. Four hundred and ten units stand vacant and only 132 are manufactured.
Electric heat covers 1,186 of 1,622 occupied homes, which means many old chimneys on old houses are now decorative and unmaintained. An abandoned stack with a failed crown and surface-caulked counterflashing is a reliable leak, and cutting a proper reglet into century-old brick is careful work we price honestly.
The weather is documented. On 9 February 1999 strong winds caused roof damage in McGill and Ely and blew out windows in Ely. A 74 mph gust hit the Ely airport on 4 January 2008 and 64 mph on 11 April 2022. Seventeen inches of snow fell on 19 January 2018. It is 187 miles and three and a half hours from us.
About Ely, NV — and why local matters here
Ely sits in White Pine County with a population of roughly 3,924, close enough to Elko that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Nevada Northern Railway shops, the Egan Range.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Ely properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of White Pine County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Ely
Call (844) 937-0229 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Ely, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve McGill, NV and the rest of northeastern Nevada. Everything starts at the Elko Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Ely, NV
Elko Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Ely that we do in Elko — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Standing seam is the one product we argue for in Elko without hedging, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste. It is the assembly that stops caring how many times a year water changes state on your roof.
- Tile Roofing — We will not sell you a tile conversion in Elko, and it is worth saying that at the top of the page rather than three paragraphs down. The tile roofs in this county are mostly boom-era spec houses, and each one is a maintenance question rather than a material choice.
- Flat and Low-Slope Roofing — Low slope in this county is mostly commercial: shops and shipping buildings, contractor yards along the interstate, and the flat porch and carport tie-ins that came with the ranch houses of the 1970s and 1980s. Ponding is the whole problem and it behaves differently in a freezing climate.
- Roof Coatings and Sealing — Acrylic and silicone roof coatings cure by driving off water or by reacting with moisture in the air, and both need the surface to hold above roughly fifty degrees while that happens. In Elko that is a calendar problem before it is a product question.
- Roof and Attic Ventilation — Take a flashlight into an Elko attic on a January morning and look straight up at the nail points. If they are white and furred with frost, whatever is wrong in that house did not start on the roof.
- Skylights — A skylight puts a hole in the one plane of the house that spends five months under snow and forty degrees of daily temperature swing. It can be done well in Elko.
See the full list of Elko services, or call (844) 937-0229.
Popular services in Ely: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve McGill, NV and northeastern Nevada.