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Metal Roofing · Pacific, MO

Standing-Seam Metal Roofing in Pacific, MO

Emmendorfer Exteriors installs standing-seam metal roofing in Pacific, MO with hidden-fastener 24 to 26-gauge steel panels that shed the hail and straight-line wind blowing up the I-44 corridor. Family-owned since 1990 with in-house crews on roughly 2,400 Missouri homes, we run metal on a full roof, a low-slope porch, or a barn near Gray Summit.
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Pacific is the most exposed of the towns we serve, sitting where Interstate 44 cuts the old Route 66 line and the Meramec River bends through the valley. That open river corridor is a wind funnel, and the same eastern Missouri track that drove large hail and 75-plus mph straight-line winds through Catawissa just west of here in the federally declared March 2025 disaster that left Franklin County under a major disaster declaration runs straight over Pacific roofs. A 26-gauge steel panel is built for exactly this. It does not lose granules to hail, does not lift its seams in a straight-line gust, and does not curl on a sun-baked south slope up toward the Highway N ridge.

We have set metal on Pacific homes since long before the storm chasers found the I-44 exit. Founder Matt Emmendorfer started roofing in 1990, moved the family operation from Overland to Union around 2003, and his sons Tom and Tim run the crews that lock every panel today. Metal is not a service we farm to a subcontractor. A standing-seam roof lives or dies on clip spacing, seam crimp, and the flashing where a porch meets the house, and on the bluff-tucked older homes near Pacific's historic downtown those details are everything. A crew that rolled in off I-44 after the last hailstorm cannot fake thirty-five years of knowing how a Missouri roof actually fails.

How it works

What our metal roofing includes in Pacific

Metal is unforgiving of shortcuts. A panel set wrong telegraphs every mistake for forty years. Here is what happens once you approve the estimate.

  1. Tear off and inspect the deck

    We strip the old roof to the wood and check every sheet of decking. Metal needs a flat, sound substrate to lie true, so any soft or rotten plywood comes out now. We never lay metal over an old roof to save a day, because a wavy deck shows through a metal panel forever.

  2. Lay a high-temp underlayment

    Metal runs hotter than asphalt in the Missouri summer sun, so the field gets a high-temperature synthetic underlayment, with an ice-and-water membrane in valleys, at eaves, and around every penetration. This is the layer that stops the freeze-thaw and ice damming a Franklin County winter throws at the eaves.

  3. Set the panels with hidden clips

    Standing-seam panels lock to concealed clips, not face-driven screws. Nothing penetrates the weather surface, which is the whole point. The clips also let the metal expand and contract through Missouri's temperature swings without buckling or backing screws out the way an exposed-fastener panel does over time.

  4. Crimp the seams and flash every detail

    We machine-seam or hand-crimp the vertical ribs so the panel laps shed water uphill of every fastener. Then we custom-bend flashing for valleys, sidewalls, chimneys, and the roof-to-wall transitions where a porch meets the house. Bad flashing is where most metal roofs leak, so this is where we slow down.

  5. Clean to no footprint

    We magnet-sweep the yard for screws and metal shavings and haul every offcut. Customers tell us our cleanup is our signature. We get in, do the work, and get out without leaving a footprint, the same way we have since 1990.

Local angle

Pacific gets storm-chased harder than any town we serve because the I-44 access drops metro crews right at the edge of Franklin County. Metal is the honest long answer for the exposed slopes here, but it is also the product those out-of-town crews oversell and underbuild. We come the other direction, from Union on Highway 50, and we tell you on the roof whether metal earns its cost on your specific house or whether a quality shingle is the smarter spend. When hail or wind does hit, Tom Emmendorfer meets your Pacific adjuster on the roof, documents the full damage scope, and walks them through it, so an upgrade to metal gets handled right on the claim instead of left on the table.

FAQ

Metal Roofing in Pacific: questions

Standing-seam metal runs roughly $10 to $16 per square foot installed, and exposed-fastener panels around $7 to $12, so metal usually costs two to three times an asphalt roof up front. The trade is lifespan, since a standing-seam roof can outlast two or three shingle roofs. We walk your actual Pacific roof and hand you a real written number before any work begins.
Often yes, because Pacific sits in the open Meramec valley where the I-44 corridor funnels straight-line wind and the spring hail track runs right overhead. Standing-seam steel sheds that hail, holds its seams through the wind, and can outlive the mortgage. For a home you plan to sell soon, a quality shingle is the smarter spend, and we will tell you that on the roof.
Heavy hail can leave cosmetic dents, but steel resists the puncturing and granule loss that ends an asphalt roof. The March 2025 storm outbreak drove large hail down at Catawissa just west of Pacific, the kind of hail that bruises and strips an asphalt slope. A standing-seam panel takes that hit and keeps shedding water, where a shingle slope loses the granules that protect it.
Yes. A lot of our metal work around Pacific and Gray Summit is partial, a standing-seam detail on a low-slope porch that shingles cannot protect, or an exposed-fastener panel on a barn, shop, or garage out toward the Highway N corridor. We tie it cleanly into your existing roof and flash every transition. We quote a full metal roof or a single section, whichever fits your home.
If hail or wind caused the damage, often yes. Tom Emmendorfer documents it, files your claim, and meets your adjuster on the Pacific roof to walk them through the scope. Your policy typically pays to restore the roof you had, and you can apply that toward upgrading to metal and cover the difference. Under Missouri law no roofer can pay or waive your deductible, so be wary of any storm-chaser who offers to.
We are a Franklin County family roofer based in Union, a short Highway 50 and I-44 run from Pacific. Many metal crews that appear for Pacific are metro operators who cross the county line after a storm and run one landing page. We have set panels on these neighborhoods for years and respond the same day. Call us at (314) 568-4163.
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