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A Roof Above The Rest Charleston, West Virginia Call (304) 989-2282

Charleston, West Virginia

Somebody has to go up and look.

Flat roofs, storm and wind damage, and repairs on houses that have been standing a long time. What is wrong with a roof is almost never what it looks like from the driveway.

Call (304) 989-2282 Ask for a look

5.0 9 Google reviews

The work

A flat roof, a storm-hit roof and an old roof all fail differently.

So none of them get looked at the same way. Here is what each kind of trouble actually is, and what it takes to find it.

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  1. The laps, where one sheet was sealed to the next
  2. The flashing where the roof turns up a wall
  3. The fall, and whether water still reaches the drain

Flat roofs

A flat roof is not flat. It is built with just enough fall to move water off it, and after that everything rests on the seams and the flashings. When one of them lets go the water does not run off an edge where you would see it. It travels along the deck and comes through a ceiling somewhere else in the building entirely, which is why the wet spot and the hole are hardly ever in the same place.

Licensed stock photograph: shingles lifted and peeled back in a patch near the ridge of a barn roof after high wind.
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Storm and wind damage

Wind rarely takes a roof all at once. It lifts a corner, breaks the seal along a course, and leaves the shingles lying back down looking fine from the ground. The gap shows up in the next hard rain instead. After a bad night it is worth having somebody get up there and read it.

Licensed stock photograph: a course of asphalt shingles being set on a roof, with a nail gun and a work boot on the finished courses below.
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Roof repairs

Plenty of roofs that leak do not need replacing. They need the one bad detail found: a lifted shingle, a split boot around a vent pipe, a flashing that has pulled away from a wall. The repair itself is usually small once somebody knows where the water is really getting in.

Licensed stock photograph: a tall old white clapboard house with a wraparound porch, a dark shingle roof and a brick chimney, under an overcast sky.
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Older houses

An old house was framed by hand, added onto more than once, and roofed over several times since. Valleys meet where nothing lines up square, and what the decking is like under the last layer is a guess until it is opened up. It is slower work, and it starts with looking rather than tearing off.

Let us know: the rest of your list

These four come from what your Google listing and your reviews already say. Google’s review keywords also put metal roof installation among the things your customers write about, so tell us what you install and it gets a card of its own here.

Send the list in whatever form is easiest. If you would rather not write it, give us the facts and we will write it and send it back for your approval.

Licensed stock photograph: a slate roof covered in overlapping scalloped courses, with two small shuttered dormer windows set into the slope.
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Where it lets go

A roof almost never fails in the middle.

The open field of a roof is the strong part. Water gets in where the roof stops being a roof: at a joint, at an edge, or around something that pokes through it.

  1. The seams

    Every low-slope roof is made of pieces, and every piece was sealed to the next one along an edge. Heat stretches all that material through the summer and cold pulls it back every winter, and a seam is where the movement shows up first.

  2. The flashings

    Chimneys, walls, vent pipes, skylights. Anywhere the roof meets something that is not roof, a piece of metal or a rubber boot is doing the work, and those pieces wear out well before the roof around them does.

  3. The edges

    The eave, the rake and the valley between two slopes all carry more water than the rest of the roof put together. Wind gets under an edge that is not fastened tight, and it keeps working at it until something opens.

Let us know

[YOUR STORY, IN YOUR OWN WORDS]

This is the place for anything you would like people to know: the business, the people behind it, the history, how long you have been up on roofs around Charleston, and what you would want somebody to know when they call you at the wrong end of a bad night. If you’d like to include an image in this section let us know and we’ll add it.

Write as little or as much as you like. If you have a whole page’s worth to say, it becomes a page of its own. Or send us the basic facts and we will write it for you and send it back for your approval.

Reviews

Nine people have written it down.

5.0

Average of 9 reviews

via Google Reviews

We had a leak in our flat roof above an apartment, Joe was quick to respond and arrived within minutes, walked us through the plan and made the repair quickly. The fairest price I could have asked for as well. Highly recommend for anyone looking for honest work.

Nathan McFadden via Google Reviews

Excellent customer service! We had some damage to the roof due to the high winds we received last night. Joe was quick to respond and fixed the problem with expert craftsmanship. Highly recommend him for any and all of your roofing needs!!!

Benjamin Sampson via Google Reviews

What the reviews keep mentioning

  • Metal roof installation 3
  • Quick response 3
  • House 3
  • Roof repair 2

Google’s own review keywords and their counts, read August 20, 2026.

Let us know: more of your reviews

[YOUR OTHER REVIEWS] Tell us which of your Google reviews you want on the page and each one goes up in full, with the customer’s name under it. Reviews from anywhere else work the same way.

Tell us what the roof is doing.

Where the house is, what you are seeing inside, and how long it has been going on. That is enough to start with.

A Roof Above The Rest

(304) 989-2282

Ask for a look

Four things worth having ready.

None of them needs a ladder, and none of them has to be exact. They just make the first conversation a short one.

  1. Where the house is

    The town, and whether a ladder can get around to the side the trouble is on.

  2. What you are seeing

    A stain spreading on a ceiling, a drip during rain, shingles in the yard, daylight through the attic boards.

  3. When it started

    After one particular storm, or slowly over a season. The two point at different things.

  4. What is up there now

    Flat or pitched, shingle or metal, and roughly how old the roof is if anyone ever told you.

Rather call

(304) 989-2282

Let us know: your hours and how far you go

[YOUR HOURS] Google publishes one closing time for you, seven o’clock on Thursday, and nothing at all for the rest of the week. Send us the week as it really runs and it goes here.

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Ask for a look

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