Storm damage in Franklin County? One family walks your roof, your claim, and the build.

Emmendorfer Exteriors has been family-owned since 1990, founded by Matt Emmendorfer and run today with his sons Tom and Tim. The family has roofed and sided more than 2,400 Missouri homes and works across Franklin County, from Union and Washington to Sullivan and New Haven. It is the only roofing and siding company actually headquartered in Union, not a St. Louis drive-in or a national franchise running a city-swap page. The same family that walks your roof and writes the estimate is the family that installs it.

No. Emmendorfer runs in-house family crews and never subcontracts. The same family that walks your roof and quotes it is the family that installs it. After a hailstorm, a franchise rotates crews and subs through the territory, then leaves when the storm season ends. Emmendorfer sends the same crew that has worked Franklin County roofs since the 1990s and will still be in Union next storm season. One crew handles the roofing, the siding, and the gutters, so there is one team and one warranty on the whole exterior.

Emmendorfer is a factory-certified installer of CertainTeed, Owens Corning, Malarkey, and GAF roofing systems, and names the manufacturer on the written estimate instead of a generic shingle. Most competitors in this market are tied to a single brand or name none at all. Naming four real systems on the estimate is how you know what is actually going on your roof, how you confirm the product before you sign, and how the factory warranty stays matched to the certified crew that installed it.

A roof is quoted per project after a free measurement. The price is set by roof size, pitch, and material. Emmendorfer walks the roof before quoting, so the price you approve is the price you pay, with no surprise line items added after the crew is on the roof. You get a written estimate with the manufacturer named on it before any work starts. If the roof is a storm claim, the carrier sets most of the number and you pay your deductible, and Tom Emmendorfer documents the damage so the approved scope covers the real work.

Yes. Tom Emmendorfer runs the insurance-claim side and walks the adjuster through the hail and wind damage on Franklin County roofs in person, handling the claim from the first inspection to the final invoice. He documents the damage the way an adjuster reads it, so the scope that gets approved matches the roof that actually failed. He files the claim, supplements it when the first estimate misses storm damage, and schedules the build once the carrier signs off. The homeowner pays the deductible and nothing past it.

Emmendorfer walks the roof first and tells you straight. When a repair beats a replacement, the family says so, even though a replacement pays more. Spring and summer hail, straight-line wind, and freeze-thaw cycles are the usual causes of damage in Franklin County, and the right call depends on how far the failure has spread across the deck. A few wind-lifted shingles is a repair. A roof hit with widespread hail bruising across every slope is usually a replacement, and that is the call the adjuster reads too.

Yes. Emmendorfer has installed siding since 1990 and works in LP SmartSide, Royal Building Products, CertainTeed, and Georgia-Pacific. Most roofers in this market treat siding as an afterthought or ignore it. Emmendorfer does roofing and siding under one in-house family crew, so a homeowner who needs both gets one accountable team instead of two trades. When a storm takes the roof and dents the siding in the same hit, one crew documents both and one claim can cover both.

Emmendorfer replaces failed decking and fascia instead of covering it. Freeze-thaw cycles and trapped water rot the wood under the shingles, and a new roof laid over bad decking fails early. The crew pulls the old material, replaces the failed wood, and then installs the new roof on a sound deck. It is part of the written scope, not a hidden change order. You see the rotted wood before it is replaced, and the price you approved already accounts for sound decking under the new roof.

Emmendorfer crews work Union, Washington, Pacific, St. Clair, Sullivan, Villa Ridge, and New Haven, all out of the company's Union base. We are 25 minutes from most Franklin County roofs, not 50, which means the family is already on the ground when the adjuster shows up after a hailstorm. Being headquartered in Union also means we are here next storm season and the season after, not a St. Louis outfit that drives in once and disappears when the work slows down.

Emmendorfer offers a free roof measurement Monday through Saturday and is based in Union, so a crew can usually reach Franklin County roofs the same week after a storm. Tom Emmendorfer climbs the roof, documents the hail and wind damage in person, and tells you straight whether you are looking at a repair, a replacement, or an insurance claim. Getting the roof documented early matters, because most carriers limit how long you have to file a storm claim after the date of loss.