Hickory Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Icard, NC — Burke County, population 2,452. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Icard homes and businesses.
Icard property owners near the Icard township bend of the Catawba River, the US 70 corridor through Icard count on Hickory Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Icard, NC. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Hickory to every job in Icard, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 729-1328 for a free roofing estimate in Icard, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Icard, NC
Forty-four storm records sit within four miles of Icard and the total property damage behind all of them is eleven thousand dollars. Not eleven million, eleven thousand, across thirty years. There is no tornado, no flood loss and no fatality in that radius, and the largest hail on file is one and three-quarter inches.
Then look a mile and a half further. The path of the 11 January 2012 EF2 that damaged 168 structures and injured eight people in eastern Burke County ended 1.3 miles from the center of this community. Thirteen point four million dollars, just outside the circle. Proximity is not history, and a bidder should be able to tell you which is which.
Icard is also filed under two spellings. Fourteen entries read ICARD and five read IEARD, a plain transposition that has been in the federal database for years, so a search on the correct spelling returns roughly three-quarters of what exists. If somebody quotes you a count for this town, ask whether they caught both.
Seven and three-tenths percent of occupied homes here burn wood for heat, the highest share of the twenty-six places on this site, and another 9.6 percent burn fuel oil. Both put a flue through a roof that a gas or all-electric house would not have, and a flue is the single most common place we find sealant doing a metal's job.
The housing has an unusual shape. Of 1,062 units, 196 came out of the 1940s alone, better than eighteen percent of the town inside one decade, with 234 more from the 1990s and 180 from the 1960s. Median year built is 1976 and median value is $141,800, the second-lowest on this site.
Seventeen percent of the stock is manufactured housing, so a fair share of what we are asked to quote here needs a different fastening schedule and a different edge detail entirely. Say so on the phone and the number changes before we arrive rather than after a crew is standing on the deck.
Icard is unincorporated, so there is no town hall, no zoning counter and no historic commission to satisfy. Burke County Community Development issues the permit and sends the inspector, and under the state fire marshal's 2023 guidance a replacement covering plus up to fifteen percent of the deck needs no permit below forty thousand dollars.
About Icard, NC — and why local matters here
Icard sits in Burke County with a population of roughly 2,452, close enough to Hickory that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Icard township bend of the Catawba River, the US 70 corridor through Icard.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Icard properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Burke 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 Icard
Call (844) 729-1328 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Icard, 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 Drexel, NC and the rest of Catawba County and the Unifour. Everything starts at the Hickory Roof Pros homepage.
Our roofing scope in Icard
Hickory Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Icard that we do in Hickory — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — Storm work in the Catawba Valley is rarely confined to one slope. A line of severe thunderstorms drops limbs on the upper planes, and the debris and water they release all land on the lower ones.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail reads differently on a stacked roof, and that is worth understanding before anyone climbs on yours. The same storm leaves the same strike density everywhere, but the planes that were already thin show it first and worst.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind takes roofs apart from the edges inward, and on a stacked house the edges are numerous. Every place an upper plane ends above a lower one creates a free edge, a pressure change and a starter course doing work it was never asked to do.
- Roof Inspections — A single grade for a whole roof is close to useless on the houses in this county. We report plane by plane, and buyers, sellers and owners all get the same format: a numbered sketch, a condition note for each slope, and a drainage map showing what feeds what.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Nearly every roof in Hickory is asphalt, and it should be. Laminated shingles are the right economic answer for this stock.
- Metal Roofing — The most useful metal roof in Hickory is usually a partial one. Putting standing seam on the plane that receives another roof's water solves the actual problem on these houses, and it costs a fraction of converting the whole building.
See the full list of Hickory services, or call (844) 729-1328.
Popular services in Icard: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Drexel, NC and Catawba County and the Unifour.