EPDM Rubber Roofing in
Streetsboro, OH

Plenty of Streetsboro 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 Streetsboro 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. Streetsboro sits in western Portage County, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

EPDM Work We Do in Streetsboro

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. We cover the whole city and the rest of Portage County.

Working on Streetsboro Homes

The founder of Streetsboro Township was Titus Street of Connecticut, who bought the land in 1798. The township covered 25 square miles and contained 15,279 acres, surveyed by Street's agents Ralph Cowles and Lemuel Punderson in the summer of 1822 and divided into 100-acre lots. Seneca Indians used the Old Portage Trail, which crosses the southwest corner of the city, to travel between Lake Erie and the Ohio River basin. A turnpike from Cleveland to Wellsville was laid through the township in 1825, with Street giving enough land to carry it across. 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.

Streetsboro at a Glance

Streetsboro counts 17,260 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Streetsboro City School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. The 44241 ZIP Code is on our regular run, not a special trip.

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