Roofing Contractor Serving Marshall County, West Virginia
Whether a house sits on the river in Moundsville or back in the hills toward Cameron, Platinum Home Exteriors keeps a sound roof over it, covering roof replacement, roof repair, metal roofing, and seamless gutters. We run our crews, all of them Amish, from the river towns out to the inland farms and coal patches. Millersburg lies two hours west, over in Ohio. Our crews carry insurance and bonding, the roof they finish is backed by a 5-Year Industry Leading Craftsmanship Warranty, and we can finance the projects that qualify. Call (330) 275-0935 to set up a free inspection and a written estimate.
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Roofing Work We Do in Marshall County
Roof Replacement
A roof replacement here begins by tearing the old roof off for a clear look at the wood beneath. The bare deck tells us what to do. Plenty of homes in Moundsville and the river towns went up in the Fostoria glass and coal years, and the farmhouses inland are older still. Their decks are real plank, not plywood, and decades of weather can leave boards soft or split under all those old layers. We replace the bad wood first, then set the new roof on board that is solid across. Your roof is built by one Amish crew start to finish, and none of the work goes to outside subs.
Metal Roofing
Out toward Cameron and the ridges, where houses stand open to the weather, metal earns its keep. Open ground gives the wind a free run. A standing-seam roof takes the wind and driving snow without the wear that works at asphalt over the years. Fifty years or more is normal for steel, which suits people who plan to stay put on family land. The higher upfront cost pays back on an exposed property, in roofs you never buy twice. Steel runs higher than asphalt to start, and we will tell you whether it makes sense for your home before you decide anything.
Seamless Gutters
A lot of Marshall County's older homes sit tucked into wooded hollows or out along the ridges, and the trees around them fill gutters fast. Each gutter is custom-formed at the house to suit the roof draining into it, so a hard rain has a clear way down. Come fall, leaves and needles pack a gutter solid, and the first hard freeze turns it into a block of ice the brackets were never built to hold. The weight pulls the hangers loose and lets a whole run sag off the edge. Keeping them clear each fall is the easy fix.
Roof Repair & Storm Damage
Most repair calls come down to storms, a band of shingles lifted by wind or flashing rusted out where the roof meets a wall. Tornadoes are rare here, only a handful on record, but the ones that come can do real harm. A small F1 tornado near Saint Joseph in 2002 flattened a barn, blew shingles off a house, and dropped large hail on its way through. Far more often it is plain summer storms rolling up the Ohio Valley, with wind and hail enough to bruise shingles and loosen metal. Hail especially tends to hide from the ground. Many times a solid repair will outlast the rest of the roof, and we will be honest with you when that is the case. After a storm we get up on the roof and document the damage for your insurance claim, and we will tarp an active leak the same visit.
Why Roofs Fail in Marshall County
At 307 square miles, Marshall County sits at the base of the Northern Panhandle, with the Ohio River running its whole western edge. Moundsville, Glen Dale, McMechen, and Benwood line up along the water, while the land behind them climbs into coal hills and the farms around Cameron. That is a lot of ground, and the weather does not treat all of it the same. The houses run just as mixed as the land. River-town homes from the factory days sit alongside farmhouses and coal-camp houses scattered back through the hills.
Most of the housing here went up generations ago, when the mills, the glass plant, and the mines were running full. Strip the shingles and you usually find wide plank boards and a single course of felt, nothing like the plywood and engineered underlayment a roof gets now. The county has 12,940 occupied homes, 77.3 percent of them lived in by their owners, a notably high share for a place where families hold and hand down property. That means most of these roofs are an owner's to look after, not a landlord's. A roof almost always fails slowly, over years. Shingles lift a few at a time, a flashing gives up here and there, and the leak only shows once a ceiling stain spreads downstairs.
Summer brings the worst of it, when the heat builds into thunderstorms that march up the valley most afternoons. A lot pass over with nothing but rain, but the strong ones turn nasty with wind and hail. The hail is the part that fools you. A hard hailstorm can crack and bruise shingles without leaving a mark you would catch from the yard, and the roof keeps shedding water for a year or two. Then the bruises open up, and the first leaks look like ordinary old age. West Virginia gives most homeowners the better part of a year to file for storm damage, but the notice window is tighter, and waiting past a few weeks can put a claim at risk. We come look right after the storm, while the evidence is still fresh on the shingles.
Completed Roofs in Marshall County
Lately, most of our jobs in Marshall County are full reroofs on older homes in Moundsville, Glen Dale, and out toward Cameron, with standing-seam metal going up on more of the exposed places every year. Ask us and we will point you to recent jobs near you.
Steve the owner is an awesome guy. The workers he has I can't say enough good things about them. I would recommend them to anyone . Place looks awesome and cleaned up great. Communication was great with any questions I had.
Steven and his crew did an amazing job getting our roof done. We have a very complicated roof shape (+ a skylight and odd chimney) and were worried that a metal roof might not be possible for us, but they were able to customize everything to fit our roof perfectly. The result looks amazing, and they made sure that the entire process happened without causing us any inconvenience. Every detail was communicated to us very well and everything went super smooth. I would recommend this business to anyone! The total cost was lower than we had initially anticipated as well. Thank you guys so much!
Marshall County Roof Permits, Handled for You
A reroof inside Moundsville calls for a city building permit, and the city wants the contractor to carry a local license too. We hold those licenses and pull the permit before we start, so none of it lands on you. Benwood, Glen Dale, McMechen, and Cameron run their own permit offices, each a little different from the next. Out in the country it loosens up fast. Across most of the county, in the unincorporated coal land and farmland, a reroof usually needs no permit whatsoever. The state leaves that call to each town, which is why the rule can change a few miles down the road.
Either way, we build the roof to code. A permit does not change how we do the job, since meeting code is what keeps a roof on in a windstorm and what an appraiser checks at a sale. When a job needs a permit, we take care of filing it and paying the fee, so that part never touches you. From the application to the inspection to the final sign-off, that side of the job is ours. We check whether an address sits inside a town line before we ever hand over a price.
City of Moundsville Building Inspection Department, City Building, 800 Sixth Street, Moundsville, WV 26041. Phone (304) 845-3394. The city requires a permit for a reroof and a city contractor license for the work. Benwood, Glen Dale, McMechen, and Cameron handle their own permits, and for a property in the unincorporated county the Marshall County Commission can point you the right way, since most rural areas require no permit. Call ahead, as offices and hours vary from one town to the next.
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Areas We Cover in Marshall County, West Virginia
Our crews work every corner of the county, from Moundsville, Glen Dale, McMechen, and Benwood on the river to Cameron, Dallas, Glen Easton, and Limestone back in the hills. Millersburg is roughly two hours west, a straight enough drive that we are out here every week of the season. 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 Marshall County, including Wheeling, and Moundsville. Contact us at (330) 275-0935 to get your roof inspected.