Wirt County Roof Replacement & Repair
Next to the busiest stretch of the valley lies its quiet opposite, Wirt County, a place of farms, hollows, and one small town. Platinum Home Exteriors sees to roof replacement, roof repair, metal roofing, and seamless gutters, wherever the house stands. Our crews are licensed, bonded, and insured, financing is open on work that qualifies, and every roof we finish is backed by the 5-Year Industry Leading Craftsmanship Warranty. We run down from Millersburg, a fair drive north. Call (330) 275-0935 to set up a free inspection and a written estimate.
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Wirt County Roofing Services We Offer
Roof Replacement
Out here a reroof is usually an old farmhouse or a newer modular home set a good way back off the road. We strip everything off down to the decking before a single new shingle goes on. On the old farmhouses it is wide plank board, nailed up generations ago. That old board can be solid as the day it went up or soft clear through, and we will not know until the shingles are off. A modular home runs to plywood sheathing instead. Whatever the deck, the bad spots still have to come out, since wet, soft wood holds no nail. We cut the rot out, fasten the sound decking down, and roll fresh underlayment across the whole roof. Our crew does the whole job by hand, and we never sub any of it out.
Metal Roofing
A lot of homes out here sit a long way from the nearest help, so a roof that takes care of itself is worth a great deal. Standing-seam metal is about as close to that as roofing gets. Its seams stand up and clip together over hidden fasteners, leaving wind nothing to catch. Snow slides off it, and it shrugs off the weathering that wears shingles thin. It works as well on a barn or machine shed as it does on the house. A steel roof commonly gives fifty years, sometimes more. That kind of life makes real sense on a place you plan to keep for good. Up front it costs more, and we are straight about that. 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 farmhouse roof sheds a lot of water off a long slope, and the gutters have to take all of it at once. We size each run to the roof it serves and screw it tight to solid fascia. Loose spikes are why an old gutter sags. Out by the barns and the tree lines, leaves and needles pack a run by November. Once it freezes, the ice load can tear a run clean off the eave. Clear them out each fall and reset any loose spike, and they will last for years.
Roof Repair & Storm Damage
Most repair calls come after weather, a few torn-off shingles or a flashing gone to rust. A real tornado almost never touches down here. Wind is the usual troublemaker, and now and then it arrives all at once. In 2012 a derecho tore straight across the county and left people without power for the better part of a week. Straight wind like that pries at any loose edge until the roof gives. Hail comes less often but hides its work, pitting the surface and loosening grit up where no one looks. 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.
Roof Damage and Aging Homes in Wirt County
The Little Kanawha River runs the length of Wirt County, splitting it roughly in half on its way toward the Ohio at Parkersburg. Elizabeth, the county seat, sits on its banks, and it is the only real town for miles. Upriver at Burning Springs, one of the first oil fields in the world drew a rush in the 1860s. For a few years it was the biggest boomtown around, bigger even than Parkersburg. With about 5,200 people, Wirt is the least populous county in West Virginia. Beyond the river it is farms, woods, and hollows, the houses scattered up the ridge roads and along the runs. Long drives are just part of it here.
Only about 2,200 occupied homes sit in the whole county, fewer than anywhere else around. Four out of five are lived in by the families who own them, places handed down through the years and held onto. A place stays in the family for life. Many of the houses are old farmsteads, with a newer manufactured home set in among them here and there. Both kinds need a sound roof, and both come to us for one. A roof gets patched and nursed for years, but the day comes when it is spent. Underneath, the decking gives way in patches, wherever a slow leak has had time to do its work. By the time a brown ring shows on the ceiling, the rot reaches well past where it started.
Summer is when the weather turns mean, usually on a hot, still afternoon that boils over. Plenty pass over with rain and a little thunder. The bad ones come with wind that gets under a loose edge and peels the roof back. Hail does its damage quietly and still takes years off a roof. You can rarely spot it from the ground, which is why a roof should get a look after a bad storm. An old roof has nothing left to fight either. Most policies here allow about a year on a storm claim, but it is far better to call it in within a week or two, before the trail goes cold. We move quick to get up there, while the cause still reads as plain weather.
Wirt County Roofing Projects
Lately our Wirt County work has run to reroofs near Elizabeth and Palestine and metal on farms out toward Newark and Creston. Ask us and we will point you to recent jobs near you.
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.
Wirt County Roof Permits, Handled for You
Roofing in Wirt County comes with about as little red tape as anywhere in West Virginia. Elizabeth is the lone incorporated town, and most of the county is open country with no permit office of its own. Out there, replacing a roof calls for no permit. Inside Elizabeth, a job may need one, so we check with the town first. Those rules can change from time to time, so we never assume. Either way, we learn what the local rule is and pull any permit the job needs. Any filing is ours to handle, not yours.
No inspector does not mean we cut corners. Our roofs meet code whether anyone ever inspects them or not. A roof we put on will stand up to a hard wind and satisfy any future buyer's inspector without a second look. If a job in town calls for sign-off, we handle the filing and meet the inspector ourselves. You will know before we start whether a permit even applies to your place.
The bulk of Wirt County lies outside any town, where replacing a roof needs no permit. In Elizabeth, the one incorporated town, ask at the town hall, since it sets its own rules. For property in the unincorporated county, the Wirt County Commission at the Wirt County Courthouse, 19 Washington Street, Elizabeth, WV 26143, can point you the right way. Rules and office hours vary, so it is worth a call ahead.
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Towns We Serve in Wirt County
From Elizabeth and Palestine on to Newark, Creston, Munday, and Brohard, we roof all of Wirt County and the farms in between. Millersburg is a good two and a half hours off, and our crews are in the county most weeks of the year. 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 Wirt County, including Elizabeth. Contact us at (330) 275-0935 to get your roof inspected.