Baltimore Premium Roofing provides professional asphalt shingle roofs in Baltimore, MD for residential and commercial properties across Central Maryland. 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.
Shingles still have plenty of legitimate work in this city, and it is worth being precise about where. The mansard fronts and steep decorative slopes on many turn-of-the-century rows are genuinely shingled surfaces. So are the pitched roofs on porch-front and daylight rows out through Dundalk, Essex and Lansdowne, and so is the whole detached and semi-detached stock of the surrounding county.
On those roofs we install architectural laminate shingles over a synthetic underlayment, with self-adhered membrane in the valleys and at every eave that has one, starter course at rakes and eaves, and hand-sealed courses where the pitch is steep enough that the factory adhesive strip will not set reliably. Nailing is six per shingle in the high-wind pattern rather than four, because the extra cost is trivial and the failure it prevents is not.
A mansard is its own animal. It is often steeper than a normal roof plane, it terminates at the top into a low-slope deck, and it terminates at the sides into party walls. The transition at the top is a genuine flashing junction, not a place to run shingles over a hump and hope. We build a proper transition detail with metal and a self-adhered ply, and we say what it costs.
Colour matching matters more on a row than it does on a detached street, because your slope is visually continuous with four or five other houses. When a partial repair is the sensible call we match to the existing line rather than fitting whatever is on the truck, and if the existing shingle is discontinued we tell you before you decide between a patch and a plane.
We will not put shingles on a low-slope deck, and we will not lay a second layer over an existing one just because the code in some places permits it. The trapped moisture, the extra dead load on joists pocketed into old brick, and the loss of an honest deck inspection are all worse than the money saved.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — self-adhered modified bitumen cap sheets, party-wall base flashing terminated in a surface-mounted reglet, through-wall scuppers with sheet-metal collector heads, parapet coping caps set on cleats with sealed joints, tapered polyisocyanurate crickets pitched to the rear outlet, cockloft framing with joist ends pocketed into brick — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Baltimore and nearby communities including Dundalk, Towson, Catonsville, Essex.
What We Handle
Everything our asphalt shingle roofs in Baltimore covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of asphalt shingle roofs work in Baltimore, MD. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Baltimore services.
Materials, equipment and how we do asphalt shingle roofs
The difference between asphalt shingle roofs that lasts and asphalt shingle roofs that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with self-adhered modified bitumen cap sheets, party-wall base flashing terminated in a surface-mounted reglet, through-wall scuppers with sheet-metal collector heads, parapet coping caps set on cleats with sealed joints, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Baltimore job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in Central Maryland means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do asphalt shingle roofs outside Baltimore
Baltimore Premium Roofing covers Baltimore and the surrounding communities of Central Maryland. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Dundalk, MD — Baltimore County, population 67,796
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Towson, MD — Baltimore County, population 59,553
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Catonsville, MD — Baltimore County, population 44,701
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Essex, MD — Baltimore County, population 40,505
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Parkville, MD — Baltimore County, population 31,812
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs in Pikesville, MD — Baltimore County, population 34,168
Start on the Baltimore Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Baltimore Chooses Baltimore Premium Roofing
- ✓We scope the two party walls before the field, because on a Baltimore rowhouse the roof ends at somebody else's building on both sides.
- ✓No open flame on an occupied attached block. Self-adhered and cold-applied systems only, and that commitment is written into the proposal.
- ✓Every proposal states your position in the row, because a middle house, an end unit and a house beside a vacant lot are three different roofs.
- ✓Coping, cornice and the rear outlet are priced as separate lines from the membrane, since that is where rowhouse roofs actually fail.
The standards behind asphalt shingle roofs
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The asphalt shingle roofs work we do in Baltimore follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every asphalt shingle roofs project in Baltimore gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free asphalt shingle roofs free estimate in Baltimore, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.