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Mentor Ohio roof repair

Serving the Mentor, Ohio area for over thirty years, Ken's Parkhill Roofing makes it a point to approach all of their roofing projects with quality and service to the customer their main priority.

Parkhill has a large crew of roofing craftsmen and workers that can easily complete the average size roof replacement in a day. It is often the case when driving through a Mentor neighborhood to see three or four shiny red trucks with white lettering pulled up in front of a house, and roof workers in matching uniforms, efficiently and effectively removing and replacing a homes roof.

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Old Slate Roof Flashing Repair

Victorian with old slate roof.

Often I come across a slate roof that’s just not worth repairing.

Today I received a call from a local home construction contractor asking if I could give an estimate on installing a new pipe flashing on a plumbing stack he was replacing. He was remodeling a bathroom in a century home nearby. After a cursory inspection of the roof it was decided to replace the stack flashing and also the cast iron soil pipe. The lead stack flashing looked like it was the original and was in terrible shape and there had already been prior repairs.

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Matteo Roofing and Gutters - Cleveland, Ohio

A review of a copper standing seam roof installation performed by Matteo Roofing and Gutters.

Poor copper roof install.

Two bay window roofs, one on the front and one on the back of the house, were re-roofed with new copper sheet metal. The original roofing on the front roof was copper sheet metal and on the rear was a terne metal roof that had begun to rust. Both roofs' counter flashings were loose and had been repaired with caulking at the brick wall. Both had been painted a light blue/green and the homeowner was hoping that the new copper would look and perform much better than the old roofing.

Copper roofing on a home should be both an elegant accent to the exterior of the home, and provide durable long lasting protection from the elements. Copper roofs are usually costly because of the materials used, the time, experience and craftsmanship of the installer.

Lakewood Ohio - Slate, copper and epdm roofing.

A beautiful brick (Federal/Georgian?) house with new(about 15 yrs old) slate roof in Lakewood, Ohio.

This house has built-in gutters behind the parapet wall that are lined with epdm (or rubber) roofing. Copper flashing on the brick walls, chimney,valleys and water table. And large, 12 inch wide,Vermont black/grey slate attached with copper nails.

I was called to this house because some of the roofing slates had become loose and slid off the roof, and there were a few broken slates that needed replaced. Upon first meeting with the home owner, I thought it would be a simple case of normal "slate shedding", where a few pieces of slate naturally break along fault lines and come off the roof. When I reached the top of the ladder, I knew there was a lot more to worry about.