COOS BAY — Santa Claus will have four more safe landing pads on which to land his sleigh this Christmas.

But more importantly, four more Bay Area families will be dry.

Willa and Billy Moore’s home, atop a bluff that overlooks Coos Bay, is one of four mobile homes that received a metal roof this week — free— thanks to Donna and Rich Rayburn, owners of Rich Rayburn Renovations of Coos Bay.

The Moores’ home was chosen from 15 nominations the Rayburns received after a TV ad aired in which they asked for names of people who had roofs in bad shape, but couldn’t afford to fix them.

Willa watched Thursday as roofers Andrew Tyree and Brent Snyder applied the finishing touches.

She and Billy will have been married 37 years in February and raised six children in the double-wide mobile home. Almost immediately after they moved in 25 years ago they discovered their first leak. Even though they both work, they never could scrape together enough to get it professionally repaired.

“We moved in when our older kids were just little,” Moore said. “It will be so nice to have a year with no leaks.”

The couple raised their first three children, then 12 years after the youngest was born had three more. Billy works long hours as a truck driver for Oak Harbor Freight Lines. Moore cleans houses to make extra money, but Billy is the bread-winner, she said.

“My husband’s a great guy, but he did not know how to fix it,” she said. “He would try patching it.”

With Billy’s repair jobs, she said the roof has leaked less some years, but this past winter was the worst.

“We have a leak in my son’s room, and our daughter’s room, so she had to move her bed away from the wall,” Moore said.

Last year, the living room ceiling started to sag.

She and Billy thought about moving into a rental until they could get their home fixed, but decided it would be too expensive. They have eight grandchildren who ask their parents why their grandma lives in a leaky house.

“My kids say, ‘This is Grandma’s house. You can’t get rid of it,” Moore said. “Now we don’t have to.”

The Rayburns were at a standstill trying to choose just one home for repairs, so they opted to do four.

“A lot of people cannot afford a roof. They’re a hard-working family,” Rich Rayburn said. “It’s just the roof is something a lot of people can’t budget for.”

The Rayburns replaced roofs on two more homes in Coos Bay and one in Bandon. Three of the roofs cost about $4,000, but since the Moore’s home was larger it cost between $6,000 to $8,000, according to Rayburn. IB Roof Systems of Eugene, the Rayburns’ supplier, provided the materials for free.

“The community’s been good to us, so this is a way we can give back,” said Rich Rayburn, who’s been in business for 18 years.

They got another wish, too. They had hoped that other roofing companies would follow their lead, and in Eugene, River Roofing and Allied Building Products, are sponsoring a similar contest.

“That’s what we wanted,” Rayburn said.

 The Moores’ son-in-law Dale Herring nominated them despite the fact that, with an extra addition on their home, the home didn’t qualify.

“It was a beautiful letter,” Donna Rayburn told Moore. “He said he would have recommended you even if he wasn’t your son-in-law.”

Moore said she is thankful their home was chosen, and just in time. With freezing temperatures and snow predicted over the weekend, she planned to light a fire in her wood stove.

“I’m thankful for what I have. It’ll be dry now,” she said. “It’ll be good.”