Slate & Tile Roofing in
Ravenna, OH

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

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. Ravenna sits the Portage County seat, 15 miles east of Akron, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Ravenna

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 Portage County.

Working on Ravenna Homes

Ravenna was founded by Benjamin Tappan, who arrived on June 11, 1799 to claim land in his father's name in the Connecticut Western Reserve. He built a settlement of log cabins before returning to Connecticut in the summer of 1800, then came back newly married later that year. It was Tappan's wife Nancy Wright who suggested naming the settlement after Ravenna, Italy, and she lobbied for it to be made the county seat when plans for Portage County were announced in 1806. 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.

Ravenna at a Glance

Ravenna counts 11,323 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Ravenna School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. The 44266 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip.

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