Roof replacement in New Ellenton, SC
Every roof in New Ellenton eventually reaches the same fork in the road: keep patching, or take the whole thing off and start clean. If you’ve had the ladder out three times in two years, if the ceiling stain in the back bedroom keeps returning like a bad houseguest, if your gutters are collecting more granules than leaves, you’re probably standing at that fork right now. This page is about the second path: full residential roof replacement, done the way we’ve done it since 2013.
CCY Roofing is a family company based in Aiken, licensed in South Carolina and Georgia, insured, with workers’ comp on every crew we send out. New Ellenton sits just down Highway 19 from our shop, close enough that the estimator walking your roof has probably already walked three others on your street. And before you commit to anything: the inspection is free, the report comes with photos, and about a third of the time we climb down recommending roof repair instead of a tear-off. If a few hundred dollars buys your roof five more years, we’ll say so in writing. That policy covers every roofing job in New Ellenton we take.
When a whole town’s roofs come due at once
Here’s the thing that makes New Ellenton different from almost anywhere else we work: most of this town was built in one furious stretch of the early 1950s, when the Savannah River Site displaced old Ellenton and its families rebuilt a few miles north. Houses that go up together wear out together. The original roofs came due together in the 70s, the second round in the 90s, and depending on who did the last one and how honestly, a big share of the town’s ranches are due or overdue right now.
That synchronized aging has an upside: we know these roofs cold. The shallow-pitched 1950s ranch with a brick chimney amidships, the frame house with two additions and three roof planes that don’t quite agree, the relocated survivor home with plank decking that predates plywood entirely, we’ve stood on all of them.
The signs it’s time: shingles cupping or cracking at the corners, granule piles below the downspouts, daylight visible in the attic, or a roof simply past 20 years with a history of patches. One caveat, if wind or a falling pine did the damage rather than plain age, stop and read our storm damage & insurance restoration page first, because insurance may owe you a roof before you buy one.
Full tear-off, every time, here’s the system
We do not nail new shingles over old ones. Not on a flip house, not on a tight budget, not if you ask nicely. A nail-over hides the decking, the one part of the roof we most need to see in a town full of 70-year-old wood, and it shortens the life of both layers. Every CCY replacement starts by taking the roof down to bare deck.
Then the sequence runs the same on every house. We inspect the decking sheet by sheet and flag anything soft, delaminated, or split, on New Ellenton’s older homes that inspection matters more than the shingle choice does. Valleys get ice-and-water shield, the self-sealing membrane that protects the spots where water concentrates. The whole deck gets synthetic underlayment, which doesn’t wrinkle or tear like old felt paper. New drip edge goes on every eave and rake, and flashing is replaced, not reused, not smeared with caulk, around chimneys, walls, and penetrations.
The shingles themselves are architectural grade, wind-rated for 110 to 130 mph, with algae-resistant granules that matter under the pine shade covering half the lots in town. And the roof gets ridge ventilation sized to your actual attic, because a 1950s ranch that’s been insulated twice since Eisenhower usually breathes poorly, and a roof that can’t exhaust summer heat cooks itself from underneath. Every component is itemized on your quote, so you can see precisely what you’re buying and compare it line for line against anyone else’s bid.
What replacement day looks like on your street
We start early, in a New Ellenton summer, the first square of shingles is usually off before the heat arrives. The crew tarps your landscaping and staging areas before the first shingle moves, because azaleas that survived seventy years shouldn’t die under a load of old roofing. Tear-off, decking repairs, dry-in, and shingling run as one continuous operation, and on the modest footprints typical of this town, most homes are finished before dinner. One day without a roof, not a week under a tarp.
Cleanup is not an afterthought. The yard gets swept with a magnet twice, because a stray roofing nail and a bare foot is not a risk we leave behind on a handshake. Before we drive off, the foreman walks the whole job with you, photos of everything in hand: the decking we found, what we replaced, the finished work.
What a new roof costs in New Ellenton
Straight numbers: most full replacements we do run $8,000 to $15,000, and New Ellenton tends toward the lower half of that range for a simple reason, the town’s ranches have smaller, simpler rooflines than the two-story builds going up north of Aiken. A compact roof is one of the only times a modest house saves you real money in this trade.
What moves the number: square footage, pitch, the number of penetrations and valleys, and, most important on this housing stock, decking condition. That last one is exactly where bad contractors play games, quoting low and then “discovering” expensive surprises mid-tear-off when you have no roof and no leverage. Our answer is simple: decking replacement is priced per sheet, in writing, before work starts. If we open your roof and find four bad sheets, you pay the per-sheet price for four sheets. The math is done before the first shingle comes off, not after.
The quote itself is exact and itemized, no “starting at” figures, no allowances that balloon later. Financing conversations happen up front too, not on replacement day. Our pricing runs consistent across every town we serve; you can see how the numbers hold up region-wide on our roof replacement across the CSRA page.
Old Ellenton’s survivor houses: replacement with extra care
Some houses in this town rode trucks up from old Ellenton before the government flooded the site with badges and fences, and re-roofing one of them is a different job than re-roofing a 1985 ranch. We treat it that way.
The decking is plank, individual boards, often with gaps that have widened as the wood dried over seventy years. Modern shingles need consistent nailing purchase, so we evaluate every board and price replacements per sheet-equivalent up front, same as plywood. The framing settled once when the house was built, again when it traveled, and a third time on its new foundation, which means the roof planes are rarely true; we shim and correct rather than shingle over a wave. And the chimneys and porch roofs that were rejoined after the move need their flashing rebuilt from scratch, those seams are the most common leak point on relocated homes, and caulk is not a flashing system.
None of this is an upcharge story. It’s the difference between a roof that lasts thirty years on a historic house and one that leaks at the chimney by year five. These houses made the trip; they’ve earned a roofer who takes them seriously.
Why New Ellenton hands us the tear-off
A roof replacement is the biggest check most families in this town will write on their house between mortgages, and you shouldn’t hand it to a stranger. We’re not one. Same family running the company since 2013, same phone number the whole way, answered by a real person in Aiken Monday through Saturday. Licensed both sides of the river, insured, workers’ comp on every crew. The workmanship warranty goes in your hand in writing, and our five-star review record was built in towns exactly like this one, where word travels faster than advertising. We do the same work one town north, see roof replacement in Aiken, but New Ellenton jobs come with the shortest drive on our schedule.
Replacement questions New Ellenton homeowners ask
Can you really replace my roof in one day?
On most New Ellenton homes, yes. The typical ranch here runs 15 to 25 squares with a simple gable or hip layout, which a full crew can tear off, dry in, and re-shingle between an early start and dinner. What stretches a job past one day: heavy decking replacement, complicated rooflines with many valleys, or weather that forces a stop. If your house is one of those cases, we tell you before we start, and the roof is never left open overnight. Dry-in happens the same day the tear-off does, no exceptions.
My house has plank decking, do you replace it or cover it?
Neither, automatically. Sound plank decking is perfectly good roof structure, and we shingle over it directly when board spacing and condition allow. Where boards are rotted, split, or gapped too wide for modern nailing patterns, we replace or overlay those sections, priced per sheet in writing before tear-off, so the number can’t surprise you mid-job. What we won’t do is blind-nail a new roof over decking we haven’t inspected. On relocated and 1950s homes around New Ellenton, the deck is the whole ballgame.
What if you find rotten wood after tear-off starts?
You get a phone call and a photo, not a mystery invoice. Because decking is priced per sheet up front, finding four bad sheets means simple arithmetic you approved before we started, not a renegotiation while your roof sits open. The foreman photographs every soft spot before and after replacement, and those photos come to you the same day. On most New Ellenton ranches it’s a few sheets, not a horror story.
Will new architectural shingles handle the pines and the heat?
That’s exactly what they’re specified for. The wind rating, 110 to 130 mph, covers anything a thunderstorm rolling off the site boundary is likely to throw, and the algae-resistant granules fight the dark streaking that shaded roofs develop under New Ellenton’s pine canopy. Heat is the quieter enemy: South Carolina attics hit brutal temperatures, which is why we size ridge ventilation to your attic instead of just stapling on whatever vent the supplier had. A cooler attic extends shingle life and takes a measurable bite out of summer cooling bills.
Let’s put a date on it
If your roof is at the fork in the road, the next step costs nothing: a free inspection, a written report with photos, and an exact itemized quote, replacement if you need it, a repair price if you don’t. Call (706) 250-1859 and a real person in Aiken picks up, Monday through Saturday, or send the form and we’ll call you. New Ellenton is the shortest drive we make. Let’s make it.
