Roofing Company in Wetzel County, West Virginia
From the river at New Martinsville to the gas-patch ridges around Hundred, Platinum Home Exteriors takes on roof replacement, roof repair, metal roofing, and seamless gutters across Wetzel County, West Virginia. Our Amish crews work the glass towns along the water and the homes tucked far back in the hollows. Millersburg sits about two hours to the northwest. We carry full insurance and bonding, stand behind each roof with the 5-Year Industry Leading Craftsmanship Warranty, and we finance jobs that qualify. Call (330) 275-0935 to set up a free inspection and a written estimate.
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Roof Replacement, Metal Roofs & Gutters in Wetzel County
Roof Replacement
Every roof replacement opens the same way, with the old shingles and felt pulled off to bare the decking underneath. That deck decides the rest of the plan. Out here a lot of the houses date to the glass and oil-field years, with some newer builds near the gas leases. Those old ones sit on solid plank, and after decades under shingle that wood can hide rot and weak boards. We cut out whatever has gone bad and set fresh board before the new roof goes down. The same Amish crew does the tear-off, the deck work, and the new roof, with no part of it passed to outside help.
Metal Roofing
On the ridges and out the long hollow roads, where a house can sit miles from the nearest town, a metal roof is hard to beat. The wind runs strong up on those ridges. A standing-seam roof sheds snow and driving rain and gives the weather no edge to lift. It can last fifty years, one trip up that gravel road instead of a new roof every few decades. The cost is more at the start, but on a remote place it earns that back. 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
Steep old roofs in New Martinsville and Paden City pour water into the gutters in heavy bursts. We form each run to match the roof feeding it and hang it to carry that load, not to copy whatever was there before. Trees crowd most lots out here, so a gutter fills with leaves by November and freezes into a solid trough of ice. That ice is heavy enough to tear the spikes straight out of the fascia. A fall cleanout keeps the run where it belongs.
Roof Repair & Storm Damage
Most repair calls follow weather, a row of shingles peeled up by the wind or flashing worn through at a chimney. Twisters are the exception here, the last of note an F1 back in 1996, but straight-line wind is another story. In 2022 a line of storms tore through near New Martinsville with winds clocked at 70 to 80 miles an hour, snapping whole trees and tearing into roofs. Hail rides along with those storms too, and it can bruise shingles and strip their granules without leaving a hole. From the ground, that kind of damage barely shows. 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 Wetzel County Roofs Wear Out
Only about thirteen miles of Wetzel County front the Ohio River, and from there the land runs back east into a deep tangle of hills and hollows. Most of it drains into Fishing Creek, which winds down through the middle of the county to meet the river at New Martinsville. Rough wooded ground makes up most of it. The land climbs from the water up to 1,650 feet at Honsocker Knob in the northeast corner, steep enough that homes and gas pads cling to the slopes. New Martinsville and Paden City hold the river bank, while the rest scatters up the creeks and back roads. Plenty of these homes sit a long way from any town, up a gravel road and around a ridge.
The housing here is mostly old, raised when glass and gas paid the bills and kept up since by people who have stayed put. Better than three-quarters of the occupied homes are owner-occupied, and out in the hollows there is barely a rental market at all. New Martinsville has shrunk from about 7,100 people in 1980 to near 5,200 today, so a fair number of houses sit empty between the lived-in ones. Under the shingles, most of these roofs run to old plank board, not the layered sheathing of a modern build. A leak out here can run for months unseen. The first sign is often a sagging spot overhead or a stain creeping across a ceiling, long after the water found its way in.
The stormy stretch runs from late spring into summer, when the heat stacks up and breaks into hard thunderstorms. Most bring only rain, but a few turn dangerous with wind and hail. The bigger threat in this country is wind. It funnels through the hollows and over the ridgetops, and it can lift shingles or drop a whole tree across a roof in seconds. Hail does quieter harm, pocking the surface and shaking granules loose so the shingles age years in one afternoon. In West Virginia you generally get a year or so to file after storm damage, though most insurers expect to hear from you within weeks, not months. The sooner we are on the roof after a storm, the easier the damage is to tie to that storm.
Completed Roofs in Wetzel County
Most of our recent Wetzel County jobs run from full reroofs on the older homes in New Martinsville and Paden City to standing-seam metal on remote places up the hollows. Ask us and we will point you to recent jobs near you.
Excellent roofing company and highly recommended! Steve was very professional and provided excellent service at a fair and reasonable price. I had leaks in my roof. This company worked with my insurance company to replace the roof in record time. My new roof looks great!
Steve Yoder's crew from Platinum Home Exteriors re-roofed my house with architectural grade shingles. They used an Equipter self-propelled roofing trailer to assist in the tear-off of old roofing materials. All landscaping was protected with tarps. Their shingle supplier brought in a boom truck to place the bundles of shingles directly on the roof. Rain and ice barriers, underlayment, and flashings were properly secured before they nailed the shingles on in the most professional manner. Ridge shingles were oriented properly considering prevailing wind direction. They paid particularly close attention to carefully shingling the six valleys in this roof design. It was a pleasure to observe how well this crew worked together. Before completion, they cleaned out all the gutters and picked up every bit of debris from the ground. -Gene H. West Virginia
Roofing Permits in Wetzel County
In New Martinsville a city permit is needed once you replace more than half a roof, which a full reroof always does. The city even asks for an asbestos test on a new roof above a certain size, the kind of detail we handle as a matter of course. Paden City, Pine Grove, Hundred, and the other towns each run their own rules. Out past the towns, the rules fall away. Across the unincorporated county, which is nearly all of Wetzel, a reroof needs no permit at all. We sort out what your address calls for and pull the right permit before the crew shows up.
Permit or not, the roof goes on to code. That is what holds up when the wind comes through the hollow, and what an inspector looks for if the house is ever sold. When the town wants a permit, we do the filing and cover the fee, so it never becomes your errand. We handle the application, any inspection, and the final sign-off, start to end. Before the estimate goes out, we confirm exactly what your address requires.
City of New Martinsville Building Department, City Building, 191 Main Street, New Martinsville, WV 26155. A city permit is required to replace more than half a roof, an asbestos test is required for a new roof above 160 square feet, and contractors need a city license. Paden City, Pine Grove, Hundred, Smithfield, and Littleton handle their own permits. For a property in the unincorporated county the Wetzel County Commission can point you the right way, since most rural areas require no permit. Call ahead, as offices and hours change from one town to the next.
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Where We Roof in Wetzel County
We roof homes all over Wetzel County, from New Martinsville and Paden City on the river to Pine Grove, Hundred, Smithfield, Littleton, and Reader scattered inland. Millersburg is a two-hour drive to the northwest, close enough that we are out this way every week. 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 Wetzel County, including . Contact us at (330) 275-0935 to get your roof inspected.