Roofing Company in Harrison County, Ohio
Harrison County's roofing company is Platinum Home Exteriors, handling roof replacement, roof repair, metal roofing, and seamless gutters. Its Amish crews work some of the steepest, most rugged country in Ohio, coal-and-farm hills with little flat ground, from Cadiz and Hopedale to Scio, Jewett, Freeport, and Bowerston. Millersburg sits about 60 miles west. Every Harrison County job is fully insured and bonded, includes a 5-Year Industry Leading Craftsmanship Warranty, and can be financed for those who qualify. Call (330) 275-0935 for a free inspection and written estimate.
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Roof Replacement, Repair & Metal Roofing in Harrison County
Roof Replacement
Roof replacement in Harrison County starts with a full tear-off to bare decking, a board-by-board look at the sheathing, and new underlayment and flashing before any shingle goes back on. A lot of these homes are old. On the pre-war farmhouses and the coal-town houses in Cadiz, Scio, and Hopedale, that usually means plank decking under the shingles instead of plywood, with original valley and chimney flashing that has been up for generations. We find and price every soft board before new material goes down, and the same crew that opens your roof closes it, with no handoffs and no subcontractors.
Metal Roofing
Out on the open ridgetops, a roof takes the wind with nothing to break it, and the freeze-thaw swing on those exposed runs wears asphalt out before its rated years are up. A steel roof lasts 40 to 70 years. On the shaded north slopes down in the hollows, steel also gives moss and algae nothing to grip. The steep pitches on the county's old farmhouses shed snow and ice instead of holding a load. Steel costs more at the start, and we will tell you whether it earns that back on your particular house before you commit.
Seamless Gutters
The steep pitches on these hill homes throw a lot of water at the gutter fast, and a trough sized too narrow for that pitch spills over the edge before a hard rain even slows down. We roll each run on site in one unbroken piece, with no seams to split or clog, sized to the pitch and the area of roof it actually drains. The wooded hills drop heavy leaf litter every fall. A gutter that goes into winter packed with it backs up with ice and pulls loose from the fascia before the thaw.
Roof Repair & Storm Damage
Most repair calls in Harrison County come back to flashing that has failed at a chimney or valley on an older home, ice damming at the eaves on the shaded hollow lots, and wind off the storms that drive in from the west. On April 29, 2025, the first derecho of the year ran east along the Ohio Valley with straight-line winds clocked near 80 mph, tearing roofs, dropping trees into saturated ground, and pulling down power lines across eastern Ohio. Roof damage hides well from the ground. Lifted flashing and loosened ridge caps only show themselves once a person is up on the roof. A sound repair on the right house buys years, and we will say so plainly when that is what we find. After a storm we get on the roof, document everything for your insurance claim, and tarp a live leak the same visit.
Why Roofs Fail in Harrison County
Flat ground is hard to find in Harrison County. The land is unglaciated Allegheny plateau, cut by creeks like the Conotton and Stillwater into a maze of narrow ridges and deep hollows, with the high ground near Cadiz topping out around 1,360 feet. Homes sit wherever the ground allowed them, strung along ridgetops, notched into hillsides, and tucked into the hollows, a pattern set generations ago by farms and mines. A house on an exposed ridge takes the full weight of the wind. One down in a shaded hollow stays damp into the afternoon, and that lingering moisture is what gives moss and algae their start on the north-facing slopes. Either way, the roof tends to fail first at the flashing, where a lifted edge quietly lets water get behind it.
By the numbers, Harrison County holds some of the oldest housing in Ohio. The median home was built in 1965, which makes the middle of the market 61 years old, and the census ranks the county's housing among the twenty oldest of Ohio's eighty-eight. More than a quarter of its homes, 26.8 percent, went up before 1940. Roofs from those decades were rated for 20 to 25 years, laid over plank decking and felt rather than the plywood and synthetic underlayment newer houses carry. Of the county's 5,948 occupied homes, 78 percent are owner-occupied, so the cost of a worn-out roof lands squarely on the family living under it. A roof from the middle sixties has outlived two full rated lifetimes. The wear does not stay hidden forever. A valley starts to weep, a rafter tail goes soft, and a stain blooms on a ceiling nowhere near where the water actually got in.
Bad storms here come up fast. The same April 2025 derecho that raked eastern Ohio is the kind of event this county sees, a wall of straight-line wind that does its damage in minutes and moves on. Hail and hard wind rarely leave a mark a homeowner can read from the yard, since a cracked seal, a lifted tab, or scoured-off granules take a roofer up top to find. Ohio gives a homeowner one year from the storm to file a property insurance claim. That year runs out faster than most people think, which is reason enough to have the roof looked at soon after a bad blow.
Completed Roofs in Harrison County
Direct answer to my prayers. They were personable, trustworthy, timely, efficient, thorough, aimed to please, and left no mess behind. Would recommend them to anyone and would certainly hire them again.
Steve Yoder and his teams were absolutely fantastic. They work hard, pay attention to details, are so respectful, and have great prices. Steve's teams did two jobs, one for post replacements for our deck and the other was a reroofing job from damage this winter. My neighbor first recommended Steve sine he also had several jobs done very professionally. I cannot praise the Amish well enough for their outstanding work. If you use them, I bet you will also sing their praises.
We Handle Harrison County Roofing Permits
Harrison County comes with a permit quirk worth knowing. Most of it is not zoned at all. Only the village of Cadiz and four townships, Archer, Freeport, Moorefield, and North, keep zoning rules on the books. Everywhere else in the county, a like-for-like reroof needs no permit and no zoning sign-off at all, because there simply is no office requiring one. No countywide building department issues residential permits either, so a straightforward roof replacement almost never involves paperwork.
Inside the zoned areas, the rules stay light. In Cadiz, structural work or a change to the roofline is handled as a zoning matter through the village office, and the township inspectors cover their own ground the same way. We check first which of the five zoned jurisdictions your address falls in, if any. When a permit or certificate is called for, we fill it out, file it, and see it through, so nothing on the paperwork side ever stalls your roof.
Village of Cadiz, Municipal Building, 128 Court Street, Cadiz, OH 43907. Phone (740) 942-8844. Open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Where We Roof in Harrison County
We cover Harrison County end to end, from Cadiz and Hopedale to Scio, Jewett, Bowerston, Freeport, New Athens, and Deersville, plus every ridge and hollow road between them. Harrison sits a fair drive east of Millersburg, but we run crews in on a steady schedule and book inspections within a few days. Tap your town below for local roofing details. If you do not see your town listed, call us anyway, since we cover the whole county.
We provide roofing services in all cities in Harrison County, including Cadiz. Contact us at (330) 275-0935 to get your roof inspected.