Roofing in Bettendorf, IA

Bettendorf is the youngest housing stock of the four big Quad Cities, with a median build year well into the modern era, and it shows in the roofs. Larger footprints, steeper pitches, more dormers and valleys, and a lot of roofs that are on their first replacement rather than their third.

Complicated Rather Than Old

The work here is rarely about decay and often about geometry. Devils Glen, Palmer Hills, Spruce Hills and the newer developments east of Middle Road are full of roofs with six or eight planes, multiple valleys and front elevations designed to be looked at.

That matters for two reasons. Valleys carry double water and fail first, and a patch on a visible front slope has to match in a way it never does on a plain ranch.

Bigger Roofs, Bigger Numbers

A Bettendorf house is frequently thirty or forty squares where a comparable Davenport house is twenty. The price per square is the same and the total is not, which surprises people moving across the river.

It also means material choice has more leverage here. The gap between a standard architectural shingle and a metal roof on a forty square house is real money, and so is the gap in how long it lasts.

What We Get Called For in Bettendorf

• Valley leaks on the multi gable houses east of Middle Road
• Hail claims, which run high in this part of the metro
• First replacements on nineteen nineties subdivisions coming due

The Numbers for Bettendorf

Every figure below is a real Census estimate for this exact place. Nothing here is modeled, interpolated or borrowed from the county.