Slate & Tile Roofing in
Windham, OH

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

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. Windham sits in eastern Portage County, 12.8 miles from Warren, so we start every inspection on the elevations that take the most exposure.

Slate and Tile Services in Windham

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. Interstate 80 and the Ohio Turnpike pass through the village, though there is no interchange in Windham or Windham Township, which is how our crews reach most of the borough.

Working on Windham Homes

The land was owned by Caleb Strong before 1811 as part of his Ohio Company of Associates holdings. On September 11, 1810 a group of sixteen men met at the home of Thatcher Conant in Becket, Massachusetts to discuss buying land in Ohio, and became known as the Beckett Land Company. In 1942 the U.S. government chose Windham as the site of an army camp for workers at the newly built Ravenna Arsenal. The village went on to record the largest population increase of any municipality in the nation over the 1940s, at 1,148.7 percent. 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.

Windham at a Glance

Windham counts 1,666 residents, which tells you roughly how much of the housing here went up in the same few decades. Local students attend Windham Exempted Village School District, and a good share of our work comes from neighbors on the same streets talking to each other. Interstate 80 and the Ohio Turnpike pass through the village, though there is no interchange in Windham or Windham Township, which is how our crews get in and out.

The 44288 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.