Slate & Tile Roofing in
Austintown, OH

Slate and clay tile are found on the older housing around Austintown, 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 Austintown

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. Austintown sits directly west of Youngstown, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Austintown

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. Ohio State Route 11 runs north and south through the community with access at Exit 39, Interstate 680 crosses the northern part, and Interstate 80 passes just north with access at Exit 223, which is how our crews reach most of the township.

Working on Austintown Homes

Austintown Township was founded in 1793 as township 2, range 3 of the Connecticut Western Reserve, purchased from the Connecticut Land Company and surveyed as a parcel five miles on each side. It was named for Warren resident and Western Reserve judge Calvin Austin, and John McCollum of New Jersey became the first settler in 1794. The Austintown Log House, built in 1814, and the Judge William Shaw Anderson House, built in 1831, are among the earliest historic sites in the community. Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course opened here in 2014. 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.

Austintown at a Glance

Austintown counts 29,594 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Austintown Local School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. Ohio State Route 11 runs north and south through the community with access at Exit 39, Interstate 680 crosses the northern part, and Interstate 80 passes just north with access at Exit 223, which is how our crews get in and out.

The 44515 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip. We cover all of it, and the rest of Mahoning 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.