Do I need a permit for a roof inspection in Hammond?

No. An inspection does not alter the building, so it is not construction and neither the City of Hammond nor Tangipahoa Parish requires a permit for it. Permits and their inspections apply to the work itself, which our roof replacement page covers.

What does a failed permit inspection cost in Tangipahoa Parish?

The Parish fee schedule prices a re-inspection at $50 for the first, $100 for the second and $150 for the third. Inside the City of Hammond the published figure is a flat $50 per re-inspection. Those are the scales as read in September 2026 and the current amount is confirmed by the office handling your permit.

What happens if the inspector turns up and the work is not ready?

The Tangipahoa Parish schedule prices a missed inspection at $150, which is higher than a first or second re-inspection. It is charged for the wasted trip rather than for any fault in the work, so booking the inspection for a phase that will genuinely be ready is the way to avoid it.

Is your inspection the same as the one the parish does on a reroof?

No, they are different jobs. The parish or city inspection is a compliance check on permitted new work and is required by law. Ours is a condition survey of the roof you already have, it is optional, and it carries no obligation to have any identified work done by us.

Does an inspector have to come out, or can it be done from photographs?

Louisiana law provides that the official may accept location verified, geotagged photographs or videos for roofing inspections, at R.S. 37:3737(H). It is permissive rather than automatic, so whether someone attends is decided by the office that issued the permit. We document every phase either way.

Will the report tell me how many years the roof has left?

No. It records the condition of each checklist item with a dated photograph and says whether failures are isolated or general, which is what a repair-or-replace decision actually turns on. A specific number of years would be a guess presented as a finding.

How long does the visit take and when do I get the report?

Typically 45 to 90 minutes on a single family roof, and the report is written the same day. A larger or more complex roof takes longer, and anything that cannot be safely reached is recorded as not inspected rather than passed.

Can you tell me whether my insurance will pay for what you find?

No. We can document the physical condition of the roof and provide a good faith itemised estimate, but Louisiana law does not permit a roofing contractor to interpret your policy or decide what your insurer owes. Those questions go to your insurer or agent, or to an appropriately licensed claims professional such as a public adjuster.

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Roof Inspection in Hammond, LA

Big Easy Roofing inspects roofs across Hammond and Tangipahoa Parish against a fixed checklist, and you get a written report with a dated photograph of every item on it. Hammond is unusual in one respect worth knowing before any work is booked: both the City and the Parish publish what a re-inspection costs on a permitted job, and the Parish scale rises each time one is charged.

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Service

City

Written reportWhat you get

$50 to $150Tangipahoa re-inspection scale

$150Parish missed inspection charge

45 to 90 minTypical visit

Hammond roof inspection at a glance

A Big Easy Roofing inspection is a written report with a dated photograph of every checklist item. It is not the inspection the City or the Parish carries out on a permitted reroof. Both exist in Hammond, they do different jobs, and only one of them has a published price for getting it wrong.

What you are booking

A condition report

A visual, non-invasive survey of the roof you already have, written up against a fixed checklist with dated photographs. It is diagnostic and carries no obligation to have any identified work done by us. Anything invasive, such as a test cut, is a separate conversation and is confirmed with the permit office first.

What it is not

The authority's permit inspection

A permitted reroof is inspected by whichever office issued the permit. That is a compliance check on new work, not a condition survey, and our roof replacement page sets out how that route runs in Hammond.

The Parish publishes an escalating scale

$50, then $100, then $150

The Tangipahoa Parish fee schedule prices a re-inspection at $50 for the first, $100 for the second and $150 for the third. Those are the amounts on the published schedule. What counts as a re-inspection, and when one is charged, is a question for the office.

A missed inspection is charged at the top of the scale

$150

The same Parish schedule lists $150 for a missed inspection and $100 for a special inspection. That is more than the first or second re-inspection and equal to the third. The schedule does not define what counts as missed, so it is worth asking before a phase is booked.

Inside the city limits

A flat $50 re-inspection

The City of Hammond permit application lists a re-inspection at $50.00 per inspection and shows no graduated scale on that form. Worth noting because it runs the other way to the base permit scales, where the Parish is the lower of the two: on re-inspections past the first, the Parish is the higher one. Which route applies is decided by the city boundary, not by the postmark.

Skipping it is the contractor's problem

Act 422 of 2025

The State Licensing Board for Contractors states that Act 422 makes it a violation of the law for a contractor to fail to obtain inspections as required by law. It is a licence matter, not merely a paperwork gap.

Every figure on this page is an estimate, not a quote, and is subject to Big Easy Roofing sign off. Cost and timescale depend on size, pitch, access, weather, materials and whatever is found once work starts, so call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 and we will come out and give you an estimate for your own roof.

Figures on this page are the published fee scales as we read them in September 2026, not a quote from either office. Call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 to book an inspection, or the relevant office to confirm a current fee.

What gets checked and what gets photographed

The checklist does not change from roof to roof, which is what makes one report comparable with another. Every item is inspected and photographed where it can be safely reached, anything that cannot is recorded as not inspected, and anything found is photographed in close up alongside the general view.

Checklist item	What we look for	What is photographed	Why it is on the list
Shingle field	Lifted tabs, missing shingles, hail bruising, granule loss	The field plus close ups of any defect	It is the largest area and the easiest to judge wrongly from the ground
Ridge and hip caps	Wind uplift, cap loss, exposed nail heads, seal failure	The full ridge line and any lifted cap	The ridge is exposed on both sides and caps are often the first thing to move
Valleys	Debris load, wear through the granule, sealing at the joint	The full run of each valley	A valley carries the water off two slopes, so it fails earlier than the field
Flashings and penetrations	Pipe boots, chimney and wall flashing, vent collars	Each penetration individually	Most leaks start at a detail rather than in the middle of a slope
Eave line, fascia and gutters	Rot, separation, fastener pull, standing water	The eave run and any soft or separated section	It is where water ends up, so it shows problems that started higher up

Anything that cannot be safely reached is recorded as not inspected rather than passed. A report that quietly omits what was unreachable is not comparable with one that does not.

Two different inspections and only one has a price list

Since 2025 a permitted reroof in Louisiana has to be inspected by the office that issued the permit. That is a separate thing from booking a survey of the roof you already own. The first is compulsory, priced and escalating. The second is something you choose.

The permit inspection is compulsory

Statewide since 2025

The State Licensing Board for Contractors states that Act 239 requires permitting and inspection of roof construction and reroofing for any project beginning on or after 1 August 2025. It is carried at La. R.S. 37:3737(I), and it binds any office that issues construction permits.

Who inspects depends on the address

City or Parish

Inside the city limits the City of Hammond Building Department on (985) 277-5655. Outside them the Tangipahoa Parish Permit Office on (985) 542-2117, which adopted the 2021 building codes and the 2020 NEC from 1 January 2023.

The inspection may be done from photographs

R.S. 37:3737(H)

Louisiana law provides that the official MAY accept location verified, geotagged photographs or videos for roofing inspections. It is permissive, not a guarantee, so whether an inspector attends is the office's call. We document every phase either way, with the nailing pattern visible and the material packaging showing its wind rating.

Our inspection needs no permit at all

Not construction

A visual, non-invasive condition survey does not alter the building, so it ordinarily needs no permit and triggers no inspection fee from either office. It can be booked at any time, including on a roof nobody is working on.

Why the escalating scale is worth reading before work starts

The published Tangipahoa re-inspection scale runs $50, then $100, then $150, so a job that needs the inspector back more than once accumulates charges on a rising scale rather than a flat one. The schedule sets the amounts. It does not say what triggers them, which is worth establishing with the office at the start.

The City of Hammond publishes a flat $50 per re-inspection with no escalation. That is a genuine difference between the two routes and it is one more reason the boundary question is worth settling before an application is filed rather than after.

The charge most people do not expect

The Parish schedule lists a MISSED inspection at $150 and a special inspection at $100. The missed figure sits above the first and second re-inspection charges and level with the third, which makes it one of the larger single line items on the schedule.

The schedule does not define what counts as missed, so the sensible move is to ask the office and then book the inspection for a phase that will genuinely be ready. Figures are the published amounts as we read them in September 2026.

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What an inspection here is usually asked to settle

Most inspection requests come down to one of three questions, and they need different things from the report. Naming which one you are asking before the visit is what stops a report being thorough and still not answering the question you had.

Is this roof near the end of its life

A planning question rather than a fault-finding one. What matters is the condition of the field and the details together, and whether the failures are isolated or general, because that is the difference between a repair and a planned replacement.

The report records condition against the checklist and photographs it. It does not put a number of years on a roof, because that would be a guess dressed as a finding.

Where is the water actually coming in

A leak shows itself indoors a long way from where it starts, so the useful output is the path rather than the stain. Flashings, valleys, boots and the eave line get looked at before the field does.

Where the entry point cannot be established from the surface, that is written down as unresolved rather than guessed, and a leak detection visit is the honest next step.

I need the condition recorded on a date

A dated photographic record before a sale, before a storm season, or after work by someone else. The value is in the date and the completeness, not in a verdict.

What the report will not do is tell you what an insurer will accept or how a policy applies. Louisiana law bars a roofing contractor from interpreting insurance coverage, so those questions go to your insurer or a licensed public adjuster.

Big Easy Roofing Process

Four steps. The report is written the same day as the visit, because a report written from memory a week later is worth less than the photographs it is built on.

A roofing inspector photographing a pipe boot flashing against a written checklist

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01 Tell us which question you are asking

Life expectancy, an active leak, or a dated record. It changes what the report leads with, though the checklist itself does not change.

02 The visit, 45 to 90 minutes on a typical single family roof

Every checklist item inspected and photographed where it can be safely reached. Anything unreachable is recorded as not inspected.

03 The written report

Each item with its dated photograph, findings photographed again in close up, and anything unresolved named as unresolved rather than filled in.

04 What follows is your call

There is no obligation to have identified work done by us. Where work is wanted, the scope and the permit route are settled separately and in writing.

Everything else we do in Hammond

The rest of the Big Easy Roofing services available in Hammond, each with its own page, crew and written scope. An inspection is diagnostic and carries no obligation to have identified work done by us, so it can be booked simply to record the roof on a date.

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