EPDM Rubber Roofing in
North Olmsted, OH

Plenty of North Olmsted properties have a flat or low-slope section, over a porch, an addition, or a whole commercial building. Shingles do not belong there. EPDM is a single-ply rubber membrane made for slopes too shallow for shingles to shed water.

Flat Roofs and North Olmsted Weather

Standing water is the enemy on any flat roof, and drainage is what we look at first. Seams, terminations and flashing at walls and curbs are where low-slope roofs actually fail. North Olmsted sits a western suburb of Cleveland, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

EPDM Work We Do in North Olmsted

We install fully adhered and mechanically attached EPDM, rebuild parapet and curb flashing, repair open seams, and correct drainage with tapered insulation. We also handle porch and addition roofs, which are the most common calls here. Lorain Road forms the main east-west route through the city and carries Ohio State Route 10, along with State Route 252 for a short stretch, which is how our crews reach most of the city.

Working on North Olmsted Homes

The land became part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in the late eighteenth century and was bought by the Connecticut Land Company in 1795. In 1805 the tract covering present-day North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls and Olmsted Township was purchased for $30,000 by Aaron Olmsted, a wealthy sea captain. Elijah Stearns and his sons travelled 500 miles from Vermont to inspect the land they intended to buy from the Olmsted estate. Moen Incorporated, a fixture and faucet company, is headquartered in the city. 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. Flat sections on older buildings are usually additions, and additions are where drainage goes wrong.

North Olmsted at a Glance

North Olmsted counts 32,442 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend North Olmsted City School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. Lorain Road forms the main east-west route through the city and carries Ohio State Route 10, along with State Route 252 for a short stretch, which is how our crews get in and out.

The 44070 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip. We cover all of it, and the rest of Cuyahoga County with it.

Porch and addition roofs price very differently from full commercial decks, so we measure both. EPDM handles cold and movement well, which matters more here than reflectivity does. Anything under about a 2:12 pitch belongs on a membrane rather than under shingles.

Tapered insulation fixes the slope instead of patching around the puddle every couple of years. Our registration and insurance cover low-slope work across Cuyahoga County the same as steep-slope. A test cut tells us what is under the membrane, which guessing never will.

Small porch roofs and full commercial decks are different jobs at different rates. White membrane suits a building fighting summer heat gain; most homes here are not that building. Shingles on a shallow pitch fail at the laps, and no amount of sealant fixes that for long.

Ponding that dries within two days is normal; ponding that never dries is a design fault. Curbs, vents and skylights are where low-slope roofs actually leak, so that is where we start. We photograph the deck before the membrane goes down so you know what you paid for.