Every Roofing Service We Offer in Baltimore, MD

Replacing a Baltimore rowhouse roof means replacing the middle panel of a much longer surface. Your deck stops at two masonry walls you only half own, and the new system has to be terminated against both of them. In most Baltimore row homes the ceiling and roof joists run across the house and sit in pockets cut into the brick party walls.

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Rowhouse Roof Replacement in Baltimore, MD

On a rowhouse the leak is hardly ever in the middle of the roof. It is at a wall. Base flashing at the party wall, an open coping joint, a rusted scupper, or a neighbour's failed detail two feet from your brick.

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Rowhouse Leak Tracing & Repair in Baltimore, MD

Where your house sits in the row decides what a storm does to it. A middle house is shielded on both flanks and usually loses nothing. An end unit, a corner house, or a house standing beside a demolished neighbour is a different building in a wind field.

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Storm Damage Restoration in Baltimore, MD

This is the page where we usually talk you out of something. Granulated modified bitumen, which covers most Baltimore rowhouse roofs, does not record hail the way an asphalt shingle does, and the industry's whole hail vocabulary was built around shingles. On a shingle roof an adjuster marks a ten-by-ten test square and counts bruises, because a hailstone that fractures the mat leaves a soft, round, black mark that a thumb can find.

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Hail Assessment on Low-Slope Roofs in Baltimore, MD

Ask us to price enhanced wind protection on a mid-block rowhouse and we will probably tell you not to buy it. Ask on an end unit, a corner property, or a house whose neighbour has been demolished, and the answer changes completely. Position decides this.

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Wind & Uplift Damage Repair in Baltimore, MD

We inspect the block, not just the house. On an attached row your roof ends at somebody else's building on both sides, so a report that never looks over either wall has left out both edges of the thing it was asked to assess. That means we photograph your terminations and theirs.

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Roof & Party-Wall Inspections in Baltimore, MD

If a contractor offers to shingle the main roof of a Baltimore rowhouse, treat that as a warning about the contractor. Shingles are a water-shedding covering that needs slope. A rowhouse deck typically has a fraction of an inch of fall per foot, which is nowhere near enough.

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Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Baltimore, MD

Standing seam is a fine roof and it is usually the wrong one for a Baltimore rowhouse. We say that up front because it gets quoted here far more often than it gets installed well, and the reasons it fails are practical rather than technical. The first reason is slope.

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Metal Roofing & Sheet Metal in Baltimore, MD

If somebody has quoted tile on a standard Baltimore rowhouse, the answer is no, and we would rather be the ones to tell you. Behind a parapet there is no visible roof plane, so there is nothing to look at, and the deck was never framed for the load. Clay and concrete tile weigh several times what a membrane weighs.

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Tile & Slate Roofing in Baltimore, MD

This is the roof most of Baltimore actually has, and the argument about it is held in the wrong place. Homeowners get sold a debate about membrane brands. The failures we open are almost never in the field.

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Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Baltimore, MD

Silvering the roof is a Baltimore tradition and the most oversold product in this city. A coating is a maintenance layer for a roof that already works. It is not a repair, not a new roof, and on the wrong roof it hides evidence you needed.

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Roof Coatings & Sealing in Baltimore, MD

The standard ventilation advice does not apply to your house. Balanced ridge-and-soffit systems need a ridge and a soffit, and a Baltimore rowhouse has neither. There is no eave at the front, no overhang at the sides, and no ridge on a deck that falls gently to the back.

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Cockloft Ventilation & Insulation in Baltimore, MD

This is the one page where we tell you to spend more rather than less. A rowhouse is a long narrow box with windows at two ends and party walls down both sides, so the middle gets no daylight. A skylight does more here than on almost any other building.

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Skylights & Roof Hatches in Baltimore, MD

There is no gutter on the front of your rowhouse and there should not be one, because there is no eave to hang it from. Everything landing on your roof goes to the back, through one scupper or leader, into a single downspout serving the whole house. That single path is the whole system, and it is the reason rowhouse drainage failures are so consistent.

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Rear Drainage, Gutters & Downspouts in Baltimore, MD

Your rowhouse has no fascia and no soffit. At the front it has a cornice, and along the top of every wall a parapet with a coping cap. Those two do the job fascia and soffit do elsewhere, and they fail in ways a trim carpenter never sees.

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Cornice & Parapet Coping Repair in Baltimore, MD

Flashing on a rowhouse is not step flashing. There is no slope for it to step down and no eave for it to end at. Every flashing on this roof is a wall termination, and on both sides that wall belongs half to somebody else.

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Chimney & Party-Wall Flashing in Baltimore, MD

You cannot tarp a rowhouse roof the way the internet shows you. There is no ridge to drape a sheet over and no eave to fasten it at. A tarp inside a parapet fills with water, holds it against what it protects, then blows into the street.

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Emergency Dry-In & Tarping in Baltimore, MD

Most commercial roofs in Baltimore are rowhouses. The storefronts along Eastern Avenue, Belair Road, Greenmount, Harford Road and half the neighbourhood main streets in this city are attached buildings with party walls, front parapets and rear drainage, exactly like the houses either side of them. That changes how a commercial roof gets scoped here.

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Commercial & Mixed-Use Roofing in Baltimore, MD

The most common water loss in a Baltimore rowhouse is not a roof claim, because it did not start on your roof. It started next door. Water arriving through a party wall from an open roof next door is a dispute with an owner, not a storm claim.

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Insurance Claim Documentation in Baltimore, MD

Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Baltimore and Central Maryland. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.

Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.

Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.