Madison Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Gurley, AL — Madison County, population 816. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Gurley homes and businesses.
Gurley property owners near the Gurley Historic District, the Old Gurley Town Hall count on Madison Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Gurley, AL. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Madison to every job in Gurley, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 350-8722 for a free roofing estimate in Gurley, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Gurley, AL
May 8, 2024 is the date that changed the storm picture in Gurley. An EF2 tornado with a path five hundred and fifty yards wide tracked from the Huntsville Mills area toward the town, snapping large branches and leaf litter on Walker Avenue before continuing southeast. Until then the town had gone more than a decade without a surveyed tornado inside five miles.
Then May 20, 2025 brought two more in one afternoon: an EF1 that began at the base of Monte Sano and ran toward Maysville, and an EF2 that touched down on Acuff Road, downed a swath of hardwood and took roof damage off a barn. Three surveyed tornadoes in thirteen months, after a long quiet stretch, is a genuine change in what the record says.
Hail, on the other hand, is almost absent. The largest stone ever logged within five miles of Gurley is 1.75 inches, and the most recent one that size fell in 2008. If a crew knocks on your door in the historic district talking about recent hail, the record does not support them, and you are entitled to ask which date they mean.
Gurley is a small incorporated town, and we could not reach any published municipal building or permitting page for it. That is a finding, not an assumption: it means the town office is the source of truth about permits here, and a bidder who tells you confidently that Gurley requires nothing is guessing at least as much as one who tells you it requires everything.
The housing is genuinely old by valley standards. The median year built is 1971 across roughly 290 units, with about twenty-two percent from the 1970s, twenty-one percent from the 1960s, and about fifteen percent built in 1939 or earlier. Only around 225 of those units are occupied, which tells you there are vacant buildings holding water somewhere.
Pre-war roofs in the Gurley Historic District bring problems that do not exist in a 2005 subdivision. Plank decking with gaps, masonry chimneys whose mortar joints have never been repointed, and counterflashing that belongs in a saw-cut reglet instead of stuck to the brick face with sealant. Caulk on brick is not counterflashing; it is a two-year appointment to do the job again.
Where a chimney is no longer serving anything, the durable answer near the Old Gurley Town Hall end of town is often to take it down below the deck, frame and sheathe the opening and be finished with it. That ends the leak permanently instead of renewing it every time the mortar moves. We will price both and put the cheaper one first.
Roofing work we do in Gurley, AL
Madison Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Gurley that we do in Madison — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Almost every house in Madison, AL has a little bit of low-slope roof on it. A porch, a dormer return, a room addition, a bay window cap.
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — Here is a service page where we talk you out of buying the service. We do not coat steep-slope asphalt shingle roofs in Madison, AL at any price, and if somebody has quoted you one, that quote is the clearest signal you will get about who you are dealing with.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation is the one thing on a Madison, AL roof that is almost always wrong, and it is almost never wrong in the direction people assume. The problem is nearly never too little exhaust.
- Skylights — If your skylight leaks, resealing it is not a repair. It is a delay you pay for twice.
- Fascia & Soffit — Wrapping rotten fascia in aluminum is the single most common cover-up we find on Madison, AL houses. It looks finished from the driveway, it costs almost nothing, and it seals wet wood inside a metal jacket where it will keep rotting quietly for years.
- Chimney Flashing — Most chimneys in Madison, AL are not chimneys. They are framed chases, built of studs and sheathing, clad in siding or brick veneer, with a factory metal fireplace and a flue inside.
See the full list of Madison services, or call (833) 350-8722.
About Gurley, AL — and why local matters here
Gurley sits in Madison County with a population of roughly 816, close enough to Madison that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Gurley Historic District, the Old Gurley Town Hall.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Gurley properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Madison 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 Gurley
Call (833) 350-8722 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Gurley, 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 New Hope, AL and the rest of Madison and Limestone counties. Everything starts at the Madison Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Gurley: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve New Hope, AL and Madison and Limestone counties.