How the business runs

A roofing business that tells you to ring the city

This is a roof replacement business working Euclid and the Greater Cleveland cities around it, on both sides of the Cuyahoga and Lake county line. The work is residential: replacement, repair, shingle and flat roofing, ice damming and gutters, on the inner-ring housing this part of the lake shore is built from.

It is organized around the fact that Ohio gives a homeowner no license to check. Rather than fill that gap with the word 'trusted', this site points at the thing that does exist -- registration with the city the work is in, enforced at the point the permit issues -- and tells you to verify it before anybody starts, including us. That is a weaker claim than a license and a much more useful one, because you can confirm it yourself in a phone call.

Roofing only -- no siding, windows or general contracting
No storm-damage paperwork of any kind
No work without the permit the city requires for it
No price without walking the roof and the roof space

Old roof lath and timber framing inside a stripped attic — **While the work runs**Survey before any price is given

How it runs

Four steps, no surprises

Free inspection, the permit taken out properly, and a city registration you can check.

Call or message

Tell us the address and which city it is in. That is not small talk -- it decides which building department the permit comes from, which registration applies, and what the fee schedule looks like, and three of the cities we work in are in a different county from Euclid.

Survey, roof and roof space

Both together. Outside: the slope and the details that fail. Inside: the layer count, the deck type, and the things a snowbelt roof space tells you -- old water tracks above the wall plate, frost on the underside of the deck, insulation flattened and dark in one patch.

Written scope, then the price

The work described in plain language, decking as a rate per sheet, ice barrier coverage and ventilation stated rather than assumed. If you want to ring the city and check the registration before you sign, that is the right instinct and we would rather you did.

Permit, then the work

The permit taken out properly with the department for that city, the inspection met, and a before-and-after set of photographs that is yours whatever you decide to do next.

Before you choose

Five things worth asking of every quote, including this one

The first two are free and the city answers them, which is why they are first.

Are you registered in the city my house is in

Not 'licensed', not 'certified' -- registered, in that specific municipality. It is the only credential that exists for roofing in Ohio and the city will confirm it for you.

Are you taking out the permit

A roof replacement here requires one, and the permit is where registration gets checked. If somebody proposes doing the job without it, that is the whole safeguard gone.

How far does the ice barrier run up the slope

In this snowbelt a token strip at the eaves is not enough -- it wants to reach past the point where the heated building ends. This is the single most useful technical question you can ask here.

Is the decking priced per sheet

Nobody knows how much deck has softened until the covering is off. A rate per sheet is an honest answer; a lump sum gets revisited upwards once the roof is open.

What are you doing about ventilation

If the roof has been damming, the covering was probably not the cause. A quote that replaces shingles and says nothing about the roof space is quoting for the symptom.

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