Slate & Tile Roofing in
Columbiana, OH

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

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. Columbiana sits in Columbiana and Mahoning counties, part of the Youngstown-Warren metropolitan area, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Columbiana

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. State Routes 14 and 46 run east and west through the northern part of the city, meeting State Route 164, which is how our crews reach most of the city.

Working on Columbiana Homes

Columbiana was laid out by Joshua Dixon and William Heald in 1805. The name comes from Columbiana County, itself named for Christopher Columbus with the suffix -iana. The city was incorporated as a village in 1837 and elevated to a city in 2000. The Jones-Bowman House, built in 1842, is believed to have been part of the Underground Railroad. Harvey S. Firestone, who founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, was born and raised here, and in 1933 he and his wife Idabelle donated 53 acres for Firestone Park, which opened in 1935. 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.

Columbiana at a Glance

Columbiana counts 6,559 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Columbiana Exempted Village School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. State Routes 14 and 46 run east and west through the northern part of the city, meeting State Route 164, which is how our crews get in and out.

The 44408 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip. We cover all of it, and the rest of Columbiana 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.