St. Clair, MO Roofing & Siding
St. Clair sits along Interstate 44 in the southern part of Franklin County, where the highway funnels traffic between the St. Louis metro and the Ozark foothills. We are based about fifteen minutes northeast in Union, the county seat, which means a St. Clair roof is not an out-of-county job we squeeze in. It is the same Franklin County we have called home since we moved the business here from the Overland suburb of St. Louis around 2003. When you call about a roof on Springfield Road or out toward the Bourbeuse River bottoms, you reach the family whose name is on the truck, not a metro franchise that drives down I-44 only after a storm hits.
The housing in St. Clair runs the full spread, and each kind of roof ages differently. There are older homes and steeper gabled roofs near the original town center off Highway 47, ranch homes and split-levels in the subdivisions that filled in through the 1980s and 1990s, and rural acreage roofs spreading south and east into the wooded Meramec and Bourbeuse watershed. A 1990s subdivision roof in St. Clair sheds hail very differently than a steep older roof in town or a long low-slope addition on a country home. We have replaced and repaired enough of all three across this county to read the failure before we ever set a ladder against the fascia.
What kills a St. Clair roof is rarely a single hailstorm. It is the eastern Missouri stack. Spring and summer bring the hail and straight-line wind that bruise shingles and strip granules, and St. Clair sits squarely in the I-44 severe-weather corridor that the National Weather Service tracks every April through June. Then a Missouri winter of freeze-thaw works the bruised material, expanding and contracting it until seams, flashing, and nail heads open up. The next summer's hail finds those gaps. We replace the failed decking and fascia underneath, not just the shingles on top, because in this climate the wood is usually part of the story and we will show you what we find before anything gets covered back over.
Why St. Clair homeowners call the family first
- Fifteen minutes up I-44 in Union
Our shop and our family are in Union, the Franklin County seat, not a St. Louis suburb with a St. Clair landing page. Same-day response on leaks and storm damage, no out-of-county drive-in.
- Roofing Missouri homes since 1990
Founder Matt Emmendorfer plus sons Tom and Tim, roughly 2,400 homes and 306 jobs in 2025 alone. A verifiable local heritage, not a generic 'family owned since' line tacked on a franchise page.
- Certified across four shingle brands
CertainTeed, Owens Corning, Malarkey, and GAF, which is rare in this market where most roofers name one brand at most. Including the Class 4 impact-rated Malarkey shingle that stands up to St. Clair hail.
- Tom handles your insurance claim
He documents the hail or wind damage, files the claim, and meets your adjuster on the roof to walk them through every soft spot. You pay your deductible, we handle the rest of the claim.
- In-house family crews
The same family that sells your St. Clair job is on the roof doing it. No retained storm-chasing subcontractors, and our cleanup leaves no footprint behind.
What we do in St. Clair, MO
A full-exterior contractor in St. Clair: roofing, siding, gutters, metal, commercial, and storm and insurance restoration, all on the same family crews.
St. Clair, MO roofing questions
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A real Emmendorfer walks your St. Clair roof, names the manufacturer in writing, and gives you a number that does not change. Same-day response on storm damage, just up I-44 in Union.
- We walk your actual roof before we quote it
- The manufacturer is named on your written estimate
- The price you approve is the price you pay
- Tom handles your insurance claim start to finish