Louisville Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in St. Matthews, KY — Jefferson County, population 17,534. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves St. Matthews homes and businesses.
St. Matthews property owners near Mall St. Matthews, Big Spring Country Club count on Louisville Roof Pros for roofing contractors in St. Matthews. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Louisville to every job in St. Matthews, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 759-4434 for a free roofing estimate in St. Matthews, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in St. Matthews, KY
St. Matthews is the one town on this site where the permit sequence genuinely differs, and it differs in a way that costs a contractor time rather than costing you money. Mall St. Matthews and the older streets either side of Shelbyville Road sit under the same city hall and the same requirement.
The city publishes it in plain words: building permits are issued by the Louisville Metro Department of Inspections, Permits and Licenses, but a Letter of Compliance is required from St. Matthews before that permit will be issued. The letter itself is free. Getting one is not automatic. That is a genuine sequencing difference, and it is the reason a crew that has never worked here will be a week late starting.
To obtain it you supply the name and address of every contractor and subcontractor on the job, and each of them must already hold a current City of St. Matthews business license. Two copies of a scaled site plan go with it, although interior work needs no site plan and an owner doing the work himself needs no business license.
That matters less on a reroof than it sounds, because Louisville Metro states that reroofing generally requires no building permit at all unless the deck or rafters are replaced. Ask a bidder in St. Matthews which of those two sentences he thinks applies to your house, and listen for whether he knows there are two of them.
The housing here is among the oldest of the eastern suburbs. Census estimates put the median year built at 1969, with 17 percent of the roughly 9,400 units dating from the 1940s and a further 15 percent raised during the fifties. Only 53 percent are single-family detached, and just over half are owner occupied.
On 12 July 2015 three to five inches of rain fell in a morning and Dutchman's Lane went under. On 17 June 2013 the county highway department reported street flooding at Breckinridge Lane and I-264, and on 24 February 2018 the same corridor flooded again. Big Spring Country Club sits at the low end of that drainage, and the streets above it drain toward it.
Hail is the other file. Golf-ball stones fell here on 2 April 2015 and inch-and-a-half stones on 15 March 2025, both logged within a mile and a half of the city. On a 1948 house with deep eaves and a mature canopy, we tell you the outlets are too small rather than sell you guards that hide the blockage.
Roofing work we do in St. Matthews, KY
Louisville Roof Pros covers the same range of work in St. Matthews that we do in Louisville — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Skylights — We install skylights and we talk a fair number of people out of them, often in the same conversation. The reason is specific to the houses here, and it comes down to where the light is wanted and what happens to sit above that room.
- Fascia & Soffit — Fascia rots from behind in this city rather than from the front, and that single fact decides the sequence of the repair. Wrapping a rotten board in aluminum coil without dealing with whatever wetted it is the most reliably wasted money in Louisville.
- Chimney Flashing — Louisville is a masonry city, and that changes what a correct chimney flashing looks like. Counter-flashing has to be let into a mortar joint.
- Commercial Roofing — A commercial low-slope roof is a drainage assembly with a waterproof layer on top, and we scope it in that order. Drains, scuppers, overflows and falls first.
- Insurance Claim Help — We are a roofing company and not a public adjuster, and Kentucky draws that line clearly. We will not negotiate for you, read your policy back to you, or say what you are owed.
- Roof Replacement — Read a Louisville roof estimate and you will usually find one number per square. That structure hides the part of the job most likely to be the reason you called, so ours breaks the work into covering, underlayment and eave metal.
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About St. Matthews, KY — and why local matters here
St. Matthews sits in Jefferson County with a population of roughly 17,534, close enough to Louisville that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Mall St. Matthews, Big Spring Country Club.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. St. Matthews properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Jefferson 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 St. Matthews
Call (877) 759-4434 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in St. Matthews, 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 Shelbyville, KY and the rest of the Kentucky side of the Louisville metro. Everything starts at the Louisville Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in St. Matthews: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Shelbyville, KY and the Kentucky side of the Louisville metro.