Family roofers in Derby, Kansas, since 1994
Stillbrook Roofing & Exteriors is Jo and Mike Lindquist's company in Derby, Kansas. Its crews tear off and put on roofs from south Wichita to Mulvane and Rose Hill. Two days after the hail, Jo chalked a ten-foot test square on every slope of a hip roof and circled each dent. The north slope had 13.
The owner paid nothing for the climb. Nobody does. When a count is too low for a claim, Jo says so on the ridge.
Sample hip roof in Derby after the May 19 hailstorm. 6/12 pitch, 31 squares.
| Slope | Faces | Hits / sq | My call |
|---|---|---|---|
| F2 main | North | 13 | Replace |
| F3 hip | West | 11 | Replace |
| F5 garage | North | 9 | Replace |
| F1 main | South | 4 | Bruised, watch it |
Three slopes over the line. Call your insurer first, then call me back with the claim number.
Same roof, a week later. The insurer wrote it up on a worksheet, and these figures are typical for a 31-square house in Sedgwick County this year. A different house changes every number. The six lines stay in the same order.
| Full replacement costTear-off, architectural shingles, synthetic underlayment, ice and water shield in the valleys, drip edge, north gutters | $21,480 |
| Depreciation held backYour roof is 11 years old, so the insurer keeps this until the work is done | −$6,120 |
| Your deductible1% of $285,000 | −$2,850 |
| First check from your insurerUsually arrives two to three weeks after the adjuster's visit | $12,510 |
| Second check, after we finishWe send the insurer the final invoice and photos, and they release the depreciation | $6,120 |
| What you pay out of pocketThe deductible, and not one dollar of upgrade you didn't ask for | $2,850 |
The adjuster had forty roofs to see that week. Jo brought the chalk sheet and the photos, and the two of them walked the same six slopes. Nine times in ten an adjuster and Jo agree before anyone climbs down. When they do not, Jo writes the supplement, and the homeowner never argues about drip edge.
The contract with Stillbrook is signed after the claim is approved, never before. The insurer's checks go to the homeowner, who pays Stillbrook in two parts that match them.
The deductible is the homeowner's to pay. A contractor at the door who offers to cover it is padding the invoice the insurer sees, and the name on the claim is the homeowner's.
Prices are installed, for 2026, on a one or two story house. Roofs steeper than 9/12 and three-layer tear-offs cost more, and the extra is put on paper before work starts.
Missing tabs, lifted shingles, a cracked pipe boot, a ridge cap that peeled in a March gust. Most are done in a morning, with shingles matched from the yard in Derby.
Tear-off to the deck, rotten decking replaced at $78 a sheet, synthetic underlayment, ice and water shield in every valley, new drip edge, six nails a shingle. One crew, usually one day.
Six-inch K-style aluminum, formed on the truck in your driveway so there's no seam over the front door. Hidden hangers every 24 inches, because Kansas ice is heavy.
The real panels hang at the shop, and most owners stand in front of them with a coffee before they pick. Shingles look lighter on a whole roof than on a sample. The advice at the yard is one shade darker than you first think.
An overflowing gutter soaks the fascia first, then the decking, then the drywall in a hall closet. Stillbrook hangs its gutters to carry that June rain.
“Shingles don't blow off. Nails let go. Out here I put six in every shingle and I count them on the first row before anybody climbs down for lunch.”
Mike Lindquist, crew lead and co-owner
Six nails on the nailing line. The bundle wrapper allows four. The extra two add about forty minutes to a whole roof.
The week after hail, the shop phone rings two hundred times. Bookings, claim questions and ballpark prices go through these four instead, and Jo calls back once she is off somebody else's ridge.
Nobody needs to be home. Leave the side gate unlatched and the photos come by text.
Stillbrook, 67037
Inside the ring, an inspection happens the same week. Past it, a crew still comes for a full replacement, though not for a single pipe boot.
Stillbrook lays shingle roofs and hangs gutters. For metal, flat commercial and slate roofs, Jo gives out the names of two people who do that work well.