Slate & Tile Roofing in
Lakewood, OH

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

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. Lakewood sits on the southern shore of Lake Erie, about 6 miles west of downtown Cleveland, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Lakewood

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 city and the rest of Cuyahoga County.

Working on Lakewood Homes

The area was surveyed in 1806 as Rockport Township, Township 7, Range 14 of the Connecticut Western Reserve, and bought from the Connecticut Land Company on April 4, 1807 by a syndicate of six men headed by Judson Canfield for $26,084. Settlement began in 1818 with the arrival of James Nicholson from Connecticut. Lakewood was established in 1889 and is one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs. Lakewood Hospital first opened in 1907 and the city bought it in 1931. 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.

Lakewood at a Glance

Lakewood counts 50,942 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Lakewood City School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. The 44107 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip.

We cover all of it, and the rest of Cuyahoga 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.