Fernley Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Nixon, NV — Washoe County, population 464. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Nixon homes and businesses.
Nixon property owners near Numana Hatchery, the lower Truckee delta at Pyramid Lake count on Fernley Roof Pros for roof replacement and repair in Nixon. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Fernley to every job in Nixon, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 410-1099 for a free roofing estimate in Nixon, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Nixon, NV
On 2 December 2012 a spotter in Nixon reported shingles off roofs, an overturned trailer, a greenhouse and fences blown down. That single line is the only dated, named report of shingle loss anywhere in the Pyramid Lake communities in thirty years of records.
The town it happened in is small and unusually uniform. There are 166 housing units, roughly half of them built in the 1980s, seven percent manufactured and seventy-nine percent owner-occupied. One decade of decks, one generation of fasteners, and they are coming due together. A run of 1980s roofs replaced one at a time over five years is normal. A run replaced in the same spring is a market, and the pricing shows it.
The Tribe governs here and the offices are in town. Tribal administration is at 208 Capitol Hill and the Pyramid Lake Housing Authority is two doors along at 204 Capital Hill. Any roof question about a reservation parcel starts with them, and we would rather you make that call than take our word for the jurisdiction.
For our part, the Tribe's business licensing chapter requires a Contracting Business License at one hundred and twenty-five dollars for a contractor with no permanent place of business on the Reservation, good only for the length of the job. It is not a building permit and nobody should describe it as one.
Nixon is the lowest town we serve, about 3,888 feet. Every ice barrier threshold in the region sits far above it: Reno and Washoe County at 5,300 feet, Carson City and Storey County at 5,500, Douglas County at 6,000. Ice damming is not your problem here. What you do need is an underlayment and fastening specification written for sustained wind rather than for a snow county.
Wind off the lake is. A 64 mph gust was recorded at Pyramid Lake in Nixon on 1 January 2004 and a 65 mph gust on 17 February 2004, while the automated station on Virginia Peak above town measured gusts past 120 mph on 8 November 2002. Virginia Peak is a mountain sensor above the valley and its numbers should never be quoted at a house.
Treat the hail record with suspicion. The 1.75-inch stone logged under Nixon on 13 July 2002 plots at 39.83 north, 119.65 west, roughly fifteen miles west and out over open water. No hail claim on a Nixon house should be built on that entry. Check the coordinates before you check the date. The database will let a record sit in the wrong town for twenty years.
The roofing jobs Nixon calls us for
Fernley Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Nixon that we do in Fernley — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Low-slope work in Fernley falls into two piles. Residential patio covers and additions on one side, and the single-ply fields on the distribution buildings along the freeway corridor on the other.
- Hail Damage Roofing — This is the page that most often ends with us telling a caller they do not have a claim. Hail is uncommon in the Truckee River corridor, and the overwhelming majority of the damage we get asked to call hail is something else entirely.
- Insurance Claim Help — Most Fernley homeowners who call us about an insurance claim do not have one, and we would rather say that in the first five minutes than three weeks into a process that was never going to work. The reason is structural, not a matter of arguing harder.
- Metal Roofing — Metal is the right answer on a minority of Fernley houses and an expensive mistake on the rest. Which one you are depends less on the house than on where it sits inside the subdivision, which is a strange thing to say and is nevertheless true.
- Roof Leak Repair — Fernley averages roughly five inches of precipitation in a year. That single number changes how a leak here should be diagnosed, because a roof that almost never gets wet does not fail the way a roof in a rainy climate fails.
- Roof Skylight Installation — Skylights fail in Fernley for a reason that surprises people. It is very rarely the leak they were worried about.
See the full list of Fernley services, or call (833) 410-1099.
About Nixon, NV — and why local matters here
Nixon sits in Washoe County with a population of roughly 464, close enough to Fernley that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Numana Hatchery, the lower Truckee delta at Pyramid Lake.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Nixon properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Washoe 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 Nixon
Call (833) 410-1099 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Nixon, 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 Sutcliffe, NV and the rest of northern Lyon County. Everything starts at the Fernley Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Nixon: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Sutcliffe, NV and northern Lyon County.