ROOF REPAIR AND STORM HELP, WICHITA, KANSAS
A leak in Wichita? See it from the roof, most days.
A stain spreading on a ceiling, shingles in the yard after a windy night, a drip that only shows up when the rain drives sideways. Chisholm Roofing Co is a small Wichita roofing crew led by a man who framed houses for fourteen years before he ever priced a roof, and that history shapes every call: the answer is up on the roof, in photographs, not in a guess from the driveway. Start with a free, hassle-free, no-obligation inspection. You will see what we see, close up, before you decide anything.
The roof is layers, and the leak is a report
Most homeowners meet their roof twice: from the street, where it looks fine, and from a bedroom ceiling, where it suddenly does not. Between those two views sits the truth of the thing. A roof is a stack of layers with jobs: decking under everything, underlayment over the deck, shingles or other covering on top, and flashing wherever the roof meets a wall, a chimney, or itself in a valley. Water is patient. It enters at a small failure, travels along a layer, and appears indoors some distance from where it got in, which is why the stain and the source are so often in different rooms.
Ellis Brandt framed Wichita houses for fourteen years and walked bare roof decks before the shingles went on. That is the eye this company brings to a leak call. The inspection reads the roof as a structure, takes photographs of what it finds, and brings those photographs down to you. Most Wichita calls are seen the same day or the next, and storm weeks run in the order the calls came in.
New here? Start with the estimate form. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If water is coming in right now, lead with that when you call. An active leak moves up the day.
A framer's second trade
Ellis Brandt grew up in Hutchinson, came to Wichita in his twenties, and spent fourteen years framing houses across the area, from the Maize and Goddard growth streets to infill work in the old neighborhoods near the rivers. Builders and homeowners kept calling him back when roofs leaked, because the man who framed a house remembers its bones, and the leaks kept telling the same story: a small failure on top, a real one underneath, in the decking, the valleys, and the flashing lines. In 2020 he started Chisholm Roofing Co to do that diagnosis as his actual trade. Nolan Pierce, who framed beside him for six years, runs most of the repairs. The full story is on the about page.
Roof Repair
Leaks traced to the layer that failed, missing or lifted shingles, flashing that has opened, vent boots cracked by the sun, and valleys carrying water wrong, with photographs from your roof.
Learn moreStorm Damage Repair
Hail bruising, wind lift and creasing, and storm damage documented slope by slope, with dated photographs and a written scope you keep whatever you decide next.
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One city, read street by street
Wichita divides itself the way locals navigate it: east side and west side of the Arkansas River, north and south of Kellogg. The crew works the whole city and the towns around it, and the housing changes as you move. Riverside and Delano, between and beside the rivers, carry some of the oldest roofs in town. College Hill, east of downtown, holds early-1900s homes with steep pitches and long histories. The middle ring is postwar ranch country, built in the aircraft decades. The outer neighborhoods and suburbs, Derby, Andover, Maize, Goddard and the rest, carry big modern roofs that were mostly installed subdivision by subdivision, which means they reach the same age in the same few years. The full map is on the service areas page.
Roofs in Wichita weather
Wichita roofs live under Kansas sky, and Kansas sky has a season. Hail peaks in May, with the main run of severe storms from April through July, and the National Weather Service counts hail an inch across or larger as severe. Wind works the other half of the year, lifting shingle edges and worrying at flashing until a hard rain finds the gap. Heat finishes what storms start: summer sun ages vent boots and seals years ahead of the shingles around them.
That calendar writes the Wichita repair list. Spring brings hail bruising and wind-lifted shingles. Summer brings leaks at boots and flashing that winter made brittle. Fall is the honest season, the one where a roof can be read clearly and small repairs done before cold weather, and it is also when a September storm can still rewrite the plan. Tell us when your roof was last looked at, and roughly how old it is, and we will already have a fair idea of what the photographs will show.
Why homeowners call Chisholm
Photographs before opinions
Every inspection ends with pictures taken on your roof: the damage close up, the layers around it, the spots that are still sound. You decide over evidence, not over a summary. Keep the habit with any company you hire. Ask to see it from the roof, not from the driveway.
The framer's layer underneath
A stain on a ceiling is the end of a story that started higher up. Because Ellis framed houses, the company reads decking, valleys, and flashing as structure, not just surface. A repair aimed at the layer that actually failed is a repair that stays repaired.
Storm weeks, kept in order
After a big hail night, Wichita fills with clipboards. Our list stays small and local: inspections in the order calls came in, documentation you keep copies of, and no decisions asked of you on your own porch in the first ten minutes. What to do after a storm is on the storm page, written as guidance you can use with any company.
The inspection starts free
Every job starts with a free, hassle-free, no-obligation inspection and estimate. You see the photographs, hear what each layer is doing, and get a price for the repair in plain words before you decide anything. Take a day to think if you want to. Roofs have waited this long; a considered decision beats a hurried one.
What happens when you call
- You talk to Tess. Call for same-day help reaches Tess, and so does the estimate form. Tell her what you are seeing: a stain, a drip, shingles down, or a storm that just passed over.
- You describe, we place it. A leak over the kitchen in a 1960s ranch points somewhere different from hail bruising on a ten-year-old subdivision roof. If water is actively coming in, say so first.
- The roof gets read, and photographed. Layers, flashing, boots, valleys, and the spot above your stain. Then the photographs come down to you with the diagnosis and the full price, before any repair begins.
- You decide over evidence. Approve the repair, take the planning numbers and think, or keep the photographs and call someone else. The inspection was free either way.
Questions that start with a ceiling stain
The ceiling stain is in the hall, but nothing looks wrong above it. Why?
Because water travels. It enters at a boot, a valley, or a flashing line, runs along the decking or a rafter, and drips where the path ends, which can be a room away from the entry point. Chasing a stain from below is guesswork; reading the roof above it is the actual method. More on the FAQ page.
Hail came through last night. What should I do first?
Document before anything gets touched: photographs of hail beside a coin for scale, the date and time of the storm, and pictures of any shingles or debris in the yard. Then book an inspection. What a storm does to a roof is read on the roof, and the order of those steps matters if you later talk to your insurer. More on the FAQ page.
How long does a typical repair take?
Most single repairs, a flashing line, a boot, a patch of shingles, run a few hours once the crew is on the roof. Larger storm repairs and steep or layered old roofs take longer, and weather can move any date. When you book, Tess will give you a realistic shape for your job. More on the FAQ page.
What does a shingle repair run around Wichita?
Replacing missing or wind-blown shingles in the Wichita area typically runs $175 to $450, and most roof repairs of all kinds land between $200 and $1,500. The full local table is on the repair page, and your own number comes with the free inspection.
Can a roof be repaired, or does it have to be replaced?
More often repaired than homeowners fear. A roof with sound decking and damage in one area is usually a repair. Replacement becomes the honest conversation when the covering is worn across every slope or the decking under it has gone soft in many places. We will show you which case yours is, in photographs. More on the FAQ page.
Water coming in? Call for same-day help Call for same-day help, most days, or start with the free estimate.