Roofing Company Apex

On Tops Roofing is a locally owned roofing contractor that has been serving Apex, NC with roof replacement, roof repair, and roof inspections for more than three decades. We have worked on homes across Apex from the Salem Street historic district out through Beaver Creek, Bella Casa, and Sweetwater since 1991. You deserve a straight answer about your roof, photos you can see with your own eyes, and honest pricing in writing, so you can decide what to do before any work begins.

1991 Serving NC since
750+ 5-star reviews
15,000+ NC customers served
Completed On Tops Roofing project on Red Maple Ct in Apex, NC with new GAF Timberline Ultra HDZ Charcoal architectural shingles
GAF Master Elite contractor
Licensed & insured in NC
Serving Apex since 1991
Fast scheduling

Get Straight Answers on Your Apex Roof

Tell us a little about your project and we will call you back within one business day with photos, straightforward pricing, and a clear path forward. No sales pressure.

Rated 5 stars across 750+ reviews from NC homeowners.

Full-service roofing for your home in Apex

Whatever the issue is on the roof of your Apex home, from a slow leak that finally reached the drywall to a full ridge that lifted in last week's storm to a 25-year-old roof that has quietly given up, we have already worked on a house just like yours within a few miles of you. With projects completed across Apex since 1991, you do not have to wonder whether we have run into your specific problem before.

Completed roof replacement on an Apex home on Mountainbrook Rd with new GAF Timberline HDZ Charcoal architectural shingles

Apex Roof Replacement

When your Apex roof crosses the 20-year line or takes a real hit from a hurricane remnant or a Triangle thunderstorm, patches only stretch the timeline until the next leak finds the next weak spot. We replace roofs across Apex from Beaver Creek and Bella Casa to Sweetwater, Haddon Hall, and Salem Village using GAF Timberline HDZ and UHDZ architectural shingles, installed to GAF Master Elite specification in one to two days. You get written pricing before the work starts, photos through every stage of the install, and a lifetime-rated warranty backing both the materials and the workmanship.

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Close-up of a finished roof repair section on Capulin Crest Rd in Apex, NC with matching GAF Charcoal shingles

Apex Roof Repair

A single popped pipe boot, ripped valley, or stretch of wind-lifted shingles on an Apex home can soak the decking underneath for weeks before the first water mark ever appears on a ceiling inside. We trace the leak back to its source, document it with close-up photos so you can see exactly what we found, and make the targeted fix using matching GAF shingles and factory-spec flashing, often within the same week. If a clean repair will get your existing roof another five or ten years of service, we will say so out loud, so you only spend on what your roof actually needs.

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Aerial view of a completed roof inspection and replacement project on Homegate Cir in Apex, NC

Apex Roof Inspection

Listing your Apex home this spring, putting an offer on a new one, or trying to figure out whether the last storm actually did anything up top? We walk every slope, photograph the shingles, flashing, boots, and decking up close, and send you a written condition report you can hand straight to your realtor, the buyer, or your insurance adjuster. There is no expectation that you book repairs after the inspection, so what you get is the honest picture of your roof before anyone is asking for a signature.

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Meet our team based in Apex

You deserve to know who is going to be at your home in Apex before the first phone call ever happens. These are the people who will pick up when you call, climb your roof in person, and stay accountable for the work long after the truck has pulled out of the driveway.

Portrait of Chris from On Tops Roofing

Chris

Area Sales Manager

Known for fast follow-through, clear expectations, and helping homeowners feel informed instead of pushed.

Known for: clear next steps and detailed photo documentation.

Portrait of Luis from On Tops Roofing

Luis

Project Manager

The person who keeps your job running on schedule and on the standard you were promised when you signed.

Known for: making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Portrait of Lexi from On Tops Roofing

Lexi

Customer Service Manager

Part of what keeps the experience organized, personal, and consistent from the first conversation onward.

Known for: making the process feel personal instead of procedural.

There are more people behind your project

Every person you interact with is part of a team that takes the work seriously. Meet the rest of them.

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Reviews from your neighbors in Apex

★★★★★

It would be easy to fill a page with positive comments about my experience with the team at On Tops. From the initial phone contact right through cleanup, the work they did to tear off and replace my roof was better than I could have imagined. After years of catching water in buckets, the quality of their work exceeded every expectation.

★★★★★

On Tops Roofing has been fantastic from start to finish. We had some winter weather damage from an ice dam that caused a leak in our garage. Jonathan was our first point of contact and dealt with the process with a level of grace, understanding, and patience that gave us reassurance. On Tops definitely made us feel comfortable trusting them and they delivered.

★★★★★

I have done business with On Tops Roofing for about 30 years and not once have I been disappointed. They showed up when promised, did the work, cleaned up and left. When they were gone, there was no evidence of them being there. The crew was efficient and polite. I got an education on roofing as well as a new roof. I will not do business with anyone else.

★★★★★

On Tops did a fantastic job replacing my asphalt shingle roof. Chris and Luis explained everything beforehand. They were punctual, efficient, and most importantly, the installation was top notch. I highly recommend them.

★★★★★

Chris was prompt, responsive and professional. On Tops came out to quote quickly, had a summary of the work with a cost for approval. Then after they scheduled the repair they sent pictures of completed work and followed up with a phone call to ensure we were satisfied. All before sending the bill. I would recommend On Tops for any roof repair.

★★★★★

I highly recommend On Tops Roofing! Luis and his crew did a fantastic job replacing our roof. They were incredibly efficient, finishing the entire project in just a single day. What really impressed me was their attention to detail during cleanup. Chris provided an estimate almost immediately using an app and satellite photos. They sent drone photos showing progress before, during, and after completion.

★★★★★

On Tops came out when they said they would, fixed my leaking roof and corrected a few other spots that I nor the original home inspector noticed. They cleaned everything up and didn't leave a trace of debris, all at a great price. I would highly recommend them.

★★★★★

Worked with Jonathan after snow blew in ridge vents. He didn't recommend the most expensive approach, just general maintenance and a tighten-up of the vents. Guys came out on a Saturday and were fast, efficient, and professional. Did an excellent job.

★★★★★

Josh and Luis are terrific! Repairs complete within 72 hours of contacting for a quote. Thorough, with pictures showing everything that was done. Super easy and friendly people. Top notch customer service!

★★★★★

On Tops Roofing significantly surpassed my expectations; they maintained consistent communication and completed the work within 24 hours.

Our certifications and awards

On Tops Roofing holds active certifications from GAF and CertainTeed, two of North America’s leading roofing manufacturers. We are licensed as a General Contractor in North Carolina. These credentials are earned through performance, not purchased.

GAF Master Elite Contractor

On Tops Roofing is a GAF Master Elite contractor. GAF Master Elite is an invite-only designation held by fewer than 2% of roofing contractors in North America. On Tops Roofing has also earned the GAF President’s Club and Triple Excellence awards for outstanding installation performance.

CertainTeed ShingleMaster Contractor

On Tops Roofing is a CertainTeed ShingleMaster contractor. ShingleMaster is awarded to contractors who demonstrate superior installation of CertainTeed roofing systems. Our installers hold individual CertainTeed Master Shingle Applicator certifications.

NC Licensed General Contractor

On Tops Roofing holds a valid North Carolina General Contractor’s License. The NC GC license requires demonstrated expertise, active insurance, and bonding. We are licensed to perform roofing and exterior work throughout North Carolina.

Why homeowners in Apex choose On Tops Roofing

Hiring a roofer means handing over one of the largest investments you own to a company you may have only just found. These are the four things Apex homeowners consistently tell us matter most when they are deciding which contractor to bring on.

No Used Car Sales Pitch

We’re not going to sit you down for a two-hour appointment and ask you ten times to sign. We inspect your roof, put together a detailed estimate with full pricing, and let you decide when you’re ready. No pressure, no fake discounts, no manufactured urgency.

One Written Price

After we inspect your roof, you get a written estimate for repair or replacement based on what we actually found. We don’t hide costs or steer you toward filing an insurance claim. When the project is complete, we offer convenient payment options to fit your situation.

Job Progress Photos

We photograph your roof throughout the project and deliver a full photo report when we’re finished. Your home is a long-term investment and you deserve a clear record of exactly what was done. Most homeowners keep it on file for insurance claims and future resale.

Actually Local

We’ve watched the roofing industry consolidate over the past 15 years and we are still the same local family business, not a franchise and not private equity-backed. We are based in the Triangle and our door is always open to homeowners across Apex.

Apex Roof Replacement Pricing

These are prices from real roof replacements we have completed in Apex over the past year and a half. Keep in mind the square footage, pitch, layout, condition, and accessories on your specific home can move the final number meaningfully in either direction.

Typical range in Apex: $9,500–$33,000 for a single-family home with architectural shingles. Roof size has the biggest impact, followed by how complex and steep the layout is and which shingle line you pick.

Address Roof size Shingle Color Completed Price
Red Maple Ct 60 sq GAF Timberline Ultra HDZ Charcoal Apr 2026 $32,450
Homegate Cir 42 sq GAF Timberline HDZ Williamsburg Slate Mar 2026 $16,880
Ten Ten Rd 23 sq GAF Timberline HDZ Charcoal Dec 2025 $9,620
Englewood Dr 30 sq GAF Timberline Ultra HDZ Charcoal Nov 2025 $15,830
Capulin Crest Rd 36 sq GAF Timberline HDZ Charcoal Oct 2025 $17,640
Curious what your roof would cost? Use our instant pricing tool to get an estimate without giving us your information

Roof size & pitch

More squares and steeper pitches take more material and more crew time. Pitches over 8/12 may require additional safety equipment.

Decking condition

If we find rotted OSB after we tear the existing roof off, we replace it sheet by sheet. On most Apex homes that means anywhere from zero sheets to a small handful, no more.

Shingle upgrade

GAF UHDZ and luxury shingles cost more than standard HDZ but carry longer wind ratings and a premium appearance.

Accessories

Ridge vents, pipe boots, chimney flashing, step flashing, and skylights all factor in. We itemize them on the quote.

Local Conditions

Unique roofing challenges in Apex, NC

Apex weather sits in a moderate band most of the year, but a few local conditions still quietly shape how long a roof actually lasts here. These are the three we keep our eyes on when we are planning a repair or scoping a full replacement.

Pine straw, leaves, and falling limbs

Almost every home in Apex has mature trees somewhere within reach of the roof. Pine straw, leaves, and falling limbs slowly grind the protective granules off your shingles. Those granules are the layer keeping UV from cooking the asphalt below them, so once they are stripped off, the shingles age fast.

Heat swings and attic ventilation

Temperatures around Apex swing hard from one season to the next and even from morning to afternoon. In summer, an attic without enough soffit intake and ridge exhaust can climb past 150 degrees, which bakes shingles from underneath and causes blistering long before any warranty is supposed to expire.

Slow-moving water in your valleys

As soon as leaves and pine straw start collecting in the valleys of an Apex roof, water that should be running cleanly off slows down and starts to pool. That is when it slips back under the shingles, rusts through fasteners, soaks into the decking below, and finally reveals itself as a stain on the ceiling inside the home.

Apex Neighborhoods We Serve

We know the subdivisions

One of the first questions Apex homeowners ask is whether the crew about to climb their roof has actually worked in their neighborhood before, and for the vast majority of our customers the answer is yes. At any given point we have projects underway or just finished from Salem Street and downtown Apex out to the Peakway, US-64, and Olive Chapel Rd. The list below is a snapshot of where we have been working lately, not a fence around where we work, so if your neighborhood is not on it there is a good chance we have put a roof on a home a few streets over. When you call, we will walk you through the projects nearest to your home and help you figure out what makes sense for the roof over your head.

  • Beaver Creek
  • Bella Casa
  • Sweetwater
  • Salem Village
  • Scott’s Mill
  • Haddon Hall
  • Hunter’s Bend
  • Walker’s Crossing
  • Westford
  • The Reserve
  • Salem Street
  • Apex Peakway
  • Olive Chapel Rd
  • Davis Dr
  • NC-55 Corridor
  • US-64 Corridor
  • US-1 Corridor
  • Downtown Apex

Roofing overview

How roofing works in Apex

Apex has expanded fast in the last two decades, and most of the homes we see today were built between the late 1980s and the mid-2000s. The architectural shingles installed on those houses generally last 20 to 25 years, which is why so many Apex homeowners are calling us for replacements right now. Here is the short version of what the local market looks like from up on a ladder.

Completed roof replacement on a home on McKenzie Meadow Ln in Apex

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Roof types you see in Apex

Architectural asphalt shingles cover almost every home in Apex. Three-tab shingles and designer profiles are now uncommon outside of older cottages or specialty homes. Other systems like standing-seam metal or cedar shake might cover one in ten roofs, usually on a custom-built or unique design. For most Apex homeowners, the meaningful question is which architectural shingle to pick, not which roofing material to install.

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When Apex requires a permit

The Town of Apex only requires a building permit when something is changing in the roof structure itself. A like-for-like replacement or a focused repair on the existing framing does not trigger a permit. Unusually large projects or anything atypical can run into exceptions, and we will tell you up front if your project falls into that bucket.

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Shingle brands in Apex

From more than 30 years of installing roofs in Apex, the three shingle brands we run into most are CertainTeed, then GAF, then Owens Corning. Some new construction homes start out with lower-cost alternatives, but by the time the roof needs to be replaced almost every homeowner ends up choosing one of those three. See our roof replacement guide for how to think through the decision.

Apex Roofing FAQ

The questions homeowners ask us most

Most roof replacements in Apex do not require a permit. The work is generally classified as maintenance instead of structural construction, so the Town of Apex usually only steps in when something is being changed in the roof framing itself, like the trusses, rafters, or other load-bearing components. That is the rule of thumb but not a hard guarantee, so it is always smart to confirm with your contractor or with the town's permitting office before any work starts. We pull that question off your plate before our crews are scheduled so nothing surprises you once the project is underway.

This question shows up in nearly every estimate appointment we run, and we have written about it at length in our guides. The straightforward answer is that asphalt roofs in Apex generally hold up for 20 to 25 years when they have been installed correctly with architectural shingles. That window matches industry research, manufacturer publications, and what we have seen ourselves putting roofs on Apex homes for more than three decades. Three-tab shingles tend to wear out faster, while architectural shingles consistently fall in that 20 to 25 year band. Roofs that push past it without leaks, recurring patches, or hitting the end of their useful life are uncommon. We do see the occasional 30-year roof, but by the time it gets there it has typically required a lot of work and may already be causing trouble in the ceilings inside.

Anyone who has lived in Apex for a few years already knows how much tree cover there is, and tree damage is one of the issues we run into most. That covers everything from limbs snapping during a storm and dropping onto a slope to branches steadily scuffing shingles whenever the wind blows. Wind and hail show up here too, like the rest of central North Carolina, but those events are not as frequent as out-of-town contractors will sometimes claim, and Apex itself has not been hit by a major hail storm in years. Across the work we have done locally, plain old age is by far the leading reason a roof gets replaced. Most Apex homeowners we work with are not chasing storm claims. Their roofs have simply hit the end of the road.

If a storm has actually damaged your roof, your homeowner's policy may cover a replacement. We have built out a lot of educational content on the claim process, what insurance is looking for, and how adjusters decide what counts, because the worlds of roofing and insurance overlap more than people realize. The hard part for homeowners is that plenty of contractors understand construction without understanding insurance, while plenty of insurance-savvy folks are not strong roofers. We try to be solid on both. If your roof has real storm damage, we will tell you whether filing a claim makes sense and walk you through the process. We are also not an insurance claim mill. We will not push you to file a claim that is not legitimate, and we will not invent storm damage that is not there.

Six major shingle manufacturers operate in the United States, and the three out in front are GAF, CertainTeed, and Owens Corning. Picking an architectural asphalt shingle from any of those three is almost always going to put you in good shape. Our guide to roof replacement in North Carolina goes much deeper, but the headline is that the brand on the wrapper carries less weight than most homeowners assume. How the shingle is installed has more impact on long-term performance than the name on the bundle. For an Apex home, a quality architectural shingle installed properly is the right answer almost every time.

Worth asking. Plenty of Apex neighborhoods have homeowners associations and a fair number of them put rules on roofing. Some associations dictate the exact shingle product you are allowed to install, the colors that will be approved, the style of shingle, or even the minimum weight class. Others just want a heads-up and a sign-off before the crew arrives. Since every HOA has its own rulebook, there is no universal answer that fits across the board. If your home sits inside an HOA, we will help you figure out what your specific neighborhood expects before any work gets put on the calendar.

We think every homeowner should have a clear picture of roof pricing before they ever sit down with us or with any other contractor. For a full breakdown, you can scroll the pricing section higher up this page or look through the example projects we have completed in Apex, with square footage included for each one. The simple version is that most Apex roof replacements land somewhere between $9,500 and $33,000, but that is a wide spread. Where your home falls within it depends on the size of the roof, how complex and steep it is, and which shingle line you pick. That is why we also offer more detailed tools to help you tighten the number on your own project.

Most Apex roof replacement projects wrap up in one or two days once we are on site. Larger or more complicated roofs can stretch into a third, fourth, or even fifth day depending on the square footage, the pitch, and how intricate the layout is. Before the project starts, we walk through the expected timeline with the homeowner so the schedule on paper matches what is actually happening at the house.

Many homeowners come to us assuming they need a brand-new roof when a focused repair would actually be the better play. As a rule of thumb, if your roof is under about 15 years old, it is worth seeing whether a repair can solve the problem before you commit to a full replacement. Even roofs with heavy damage or installation issues can sometimes be brought back with the right repair work. If you have a roof under 10 years old that has started leaking, there is a strong chance one repair will get you back to dry without ripping the entire thing off. The key is getting an honest inspection so you know whether you are dealing with one isolated failure or a roof that is broadly wearing out.

Every Apex homeowner should be asking this. The best roofing contractor in Apex is not summed up by a single award or a logo on a website. It is the company that lines up with what matters most for your home, your budget, and the way you want the project handled. Look for a local contractor with a strong reputation, communication you can actually count on, and a real, visible portfolio of finished work. In our experience, the contractor you hire has more influence on how your roof performs over time than the brand of shingle you choose, even though the shingle brand gets most of the conversation. We usually steer homeowners toward a long-established local company, ideally one that is still family-owned or locally owned, and one that feels right when you are deciding who to hand your home over to.

How can we help?

Pick up the phone and you will get straight to someone on our team who can line up a repair, an inspection, a replacement appointment, or a second opinion on a quote already on your kitchen counter. No pressure, no gimmicks, no sales tactics. Just an honest read on where your roof stands.

Call (919) 639-4981

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