Slate & Tile Roofing in
Andover, OH

Slate and clay tile are found on the older housing around Andover, and both need a different hand than asphalt. Walking a slate roof wrong breaks more than it fixes. We work off staging and hooks rather than treating it like a shingle roof.

Working on Slate in Andover

On slate, most of what fails first is the fastener and the flashing, not the stone. Nail fatigue drops individual slates, and old valley metal opens up long before the field does. Andover sits in the southeast corner of Ashtabula County, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Andover

We do individual slate replacement, valley and flashing rebuilds, full tear-off and reinstall, and synthetic slate where matching original stone is not realistic. We also handle clay and concrete tile repair. We cover the whole borough and the rest of Ashtabula County.

Working on Andover Homes

New England settlers moving into the Western Reserve in 1798 brought the name Andover with them from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut. General Henry Champion, the second-largest shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, acquired Andover Township in the 1798 land drawing at Hartford. A post office named Sharon opened here in 1815 and was renamed Andover in 1826. The Pymatuning Valley elementary, middle and high schools were consolidated onto a single campus just west of town in 2006. We work on that stock the same way every time: get on the roof, open up what needs opening, and show you photographs of what is actually there before anyone talks about price.

Houses that went up in the same stretch of years tend to fail in the same places, and after enough jobs on one street you learn where to look first. That is worth more to a homeowner than a bigger crew or a faster quote. On stock that age slate usually fails at the fastener long before the stone gives out.

Andover at a Glance

Andover counts 972 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Pymatuning Valley Local School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. The 44003 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip.

We cover all of it, and the rest of Ashtabula County with it.

Slate is the most expensive roof we install, and we will tell you when synthetic makes more sense. Face-nailed repairs are the single most common thing we end up undoing on older roofs. We stage off hooks and planks rather than walking the field and breaking what we came to fix.

Carriers routinely price slate as though it were asphalt, and that is where the supplement comes in. Our crews work slate specifically; it is not a shingle crew learning on your roof. Selective repair keeps the original material on the building, which is usually the better outcome.