Roof Repair in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

What roof repairs are done in Cuyahoga Falls?

Roof repair in Cuyahoga Falls mostly comes down to five or six parts that wear out years before the shingles do.

• Leaks. A ceiling stain is where the water ended up, not where it got in. The job is to trace it uphill to the opening and close that.
• Pipe boots. Each plumbing vent pokes through the roof inside a rubber collar. Sun dries the rubber, it splits at the top, and rain follows the pipe into the bathroom ceiling. A new boot solves it.
• Flashing. Thin metal bridges every joint where shingles meet a wall, a dormer or a chimney. When a piece rusts through or slips, water gets behind the siding or the brick.
• Nail pops. Decking swells and shrinks with the seasons and slowly pushes nails back out. A raised nail lifts the shingle above it and breaks the seal. The cure is a new nail in sound wood and a dab of sealant.
• Missing, creased or slipped shingles. One tab gone is a small job if it is caught before the felt under it rots.
• Ridge caps and valleys. Caps crack along the fold, and valleys carry more water than any other part of the roof.

Where do Falls roofs usually leak?

It depends on the house, and the Falls has three common ones.

Cape Cods

The steep story-and-a-half houses on the streets between State Road and Second Street have dormers, and dormers have side walls. Each side wall needs step flashing, and each dormer makes two short valleys. Those joints leak long before the open field of shingles does. The finished rooms upstairs also sit right under the roof deck, so a small leak shows up on a bedroom ceiling fast.

Ranches

A low ranch roof sheds water slowly. Snow sits on it longer, and a shallow pitch gives wind-driven rain a chance to work under a lifted tab. On these houses the usual suspects are the plumbing boots, the furnace flue and the long eave above the gutter.

Older houses near downtown and the Gorge

Homes from before 1940 tend to have a brick chimney and a roof deck made of planks. Chimney flashing is the first place to look. There is a separate page on skylight and chimney flashing in Cuyahoga Falls.

How does a roof repair visit work?

1. The owner looks at the roof himself. From the shingles and from the attic, so the cause is found and not just the wet spot.
2. Photos come to your phone that day. You see the split boot or the loose flashing for yourself.
3. You get a fixed written price before any work starts. It covers the repair in the photos. It does not grow once the shingles are lifted, and it stands for a year.
4. The repair is scheduled and done. You get an after photo of the same spot.

When is a repair not worth the money?

A repair needs something solid to tie into. These signs say the roof around the leak is too far gone:

• Shingles that crack when a corner is lifted to slide a new one under.
• Bald patches where the granules have washed into the gutters.
• Two layers of shingles, which make every patch harder to seal and hide the deck.
• Decking that gives underfoot around the leak.
• Three or four separate leaks in one season.

When that is what the photos show, the report grades the roof Replace Soon and you receive a quote for roof replacement in Cuyahoga Falls instead. Nobody pushes either choice. The free roof inspection is how you find out which side of the line your roof is on.

What is outside the repair service?

Shingle roofs only. Flat porch roofs covered in rubber or rolled roofing, metal panels, slate and tile are not repaired through this site. Brickwork is not either. If the chimney itself is crumbling, the photos will show it so a mason can fix that first.