Roof repair in Rockville.

Rockville's housing covers a wide span. The historic homes near Town Center and West Montgomery Avenue carry original or long-overdue roofs, and many older houses still wear flat 3-tab shingles. At that age a roof leaks wherever it's weakest: brittle shingles that crack and blow off, worn flashing, and decking softened by slow leaks. We look at the whole roof so you know whether a repair makes sense or just postpones a replacement.

King Farm and Fallsgrove are newer, neo-traditional communities, and their roofs tend to fail in smaller ways: a loose ridge cap, a lifted shingle, a cracked pipe boot. The catch is that any repair has to meet HOA color and profile rules. We find a matching shingle, photograph the problem and the finished repair, and give you a written quote before starting.

Rockville is an incorporated city and the Montgomery County seat, so permits come from the City of Rockville, not the county. A minor repair typically goes ahead without one, while work that replaces decking or a large share of the roof can trigger the requirement; we check and file with the city when it does. In King Farm, Fallsgrove and other HOA communities, we match shingle color and profile so the repair stays within the rules.

The June 2012 derecho brought damaging winds and downed trees across Montgomery County, and severe weather since has kept loosening shingles here. Claims for wind, hail or tree damage to a Rockville roof are often covered under a standard homeowners policy. We photograph the damage and write it up clearly so your adjuster can see exactly what was hit.