Frederick Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Residential and commercial roofing across Frederick County. We look at the roof and at the ground under every leader, at no charge.
- ✓MHIC licensed and insured, with the number on your contract
- ✓Downspout drainage areas figured to the county's five-hundred-square-foot limit
- ✓Free inspection of the roof and of the ground under every leader
- ✓No deposit over one third, and a written workmanship warranty
Why Frederick Chooses Frederick Roof Pros
- ✓We set the number of downspouts from roof-plane area, because the county holds each rooftop leader to five hundred square feet of drainage area. A long slope gets a second outlet rather than a fatter one.
- ✓Every proposal includes a sketch marking where each leader lands and what receives the water, since the rule is that discharge leaves through vegetation, without scouring, out to the property line.
- ✓We will not build a dry well, a stone pit or a buried infiltration box on this valley floor. That is the practice the state manual restricts in karst and the geological survey ties to soil piping.
- ✓Inspections start in the yard. Slumped soil, fenceposts out of plumb, sticking doors and hairline mortar cracks are read from the ground, and they sit on the survey's own watch list for carbonate terrain.
- ✓We check whether your address falls inside the Frederick Town Historic District before quoting a material, so a crimped standing seam or an in-kind slate answer is not discovered after the order goes in.
- ✓Our license number is on the contract before any money moves and the deposit never exceeds a third, which is how the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund is written to work for you.
How It Works
Ground First, Then Ladder
We start in the yard: where each downspout puts its water, whether the soil there is scoured or slumped, and whether anything is draining toward a wall. Only then does the ladder come off the truck, with a pole camera for anything too steep to stand on.
A Written Scope and a Drainage Sketch
You get a photographed condition report, a measured diagram with roof-plane areas, and a one-page sketch showing each leader, the area feeding it and what receives the water at grade. Repairs, replacement and the do-nothing option are all priced separately.
Permits and Approvals Before Materials
If sheathing or framing will be opened we pull the city permit. If the address is in the Frederick Town Historic District we get the material and profile through the Historic Preservation Commission first. Nothing is ordered until those answers are in hand.
Build, Drain, Document
Tear-off to the deck, sheathing sounded and replaced where soft, membrane at every eave, valley and penetration, then the gutter and outlet plan installed exactly as drawn. We hand over dated photographs of everything that got covered up.
Our Roofing Services in Frederick, MD
Roof Replacement
A tear-off is the one moment your roof and your drainage can be redesigned together. After the shingles are down and the gutters are hung, the outlet count and the place each leader lands are settled for the next twenty years.
Roof Leak Repair
Most leak calls in this town are ordinary: a lifted step flashing, a split pipe boot, a valley packed with Catoctin leaf litter. We find those with a hose and an hour, and we charge for an hour.
Storm Damage Restoration
Storms come over South Mountain and drop into the valley with the wind already turned. What they break is fairly predictable: rake edges, ridge caps, the leeward side of a chimney cricket, and gutter runs pulled off their hangers.
Hail Damage Roofing
Frederick sits in the middle Atlantic hail band rather than the plains. We get a damaging event every few years, not every spring, and that changes what an honest hail inspection looks like in this county.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind here has a shape. It comes through the water gaps and over the Catoctin and South Mountain ridgelines, accelerates on the descent, and reaches the valley floor with a direction that stays fairly consistent from storm to storm.
Roof Inspections
Our inspection has a part almost nobody else's does: we walk the ground before we climb. Every downspout, every splash block, every place a leader hands its water over to the yard.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Nearly every roof in this county is asphalt, and there are good reasons for that. It costs little per year of service, any competent crew can repair it, and every supplier within an hour of Frederick keeps it in stock.
Metal Roofing
Standing seam belongs on plenty of Frederick buildings, and on some of them it is the only correct answer. Downtown still carries original crimped metal that has outlasted three generations of shingle roofs on the same block.
Tile Roofing
Consider this the page where we argue against our own product. Tile is a rare and largely imported idea in Frederick County, and on most houses here it is simply the wrong material.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The low-slope roofs we see most in Frederick are not commercial. They are back porches, kitchen ells, dormer decks and the flat top of an addition that got tacked onto a house in nineteen-seventy-something.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings work on exactly two things around here, and neither of them is the thing coatings get sold for. They work on sound low-slope membrane, and they work on old exposed-fastener metal.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the cheapest roofing work there is and the most often botched. The failure is almost always the same one: plenty of exhaust up at the ridge, and almost no intake down at the eave.
Skylights
Nearly every skylight leak we are called to is not actually the skylight. It is the flashing kit, or the total absence of one, and it was decided on the day the unit first went in.
Gutters & Downspouts
This is the most important page on this website, which is not a sentence most roofers write about gutters. In the Frederick Valley, where roof water lands is a design decision with consequences underground.
Fascia & Soffit
Rotted fascia is a symptom with a short list of causes, and in this county the first item on that list is a gutter that has been quietly overflowing at the same point for several winters. So we chase the cause before we replace the board.
Chimney Flashing
Frederick has an enormous number of brick chimneys, a great many of them original, and the chimney is the single most common place a roof lets water in. It is also the place most often patched with sealant instead of metal.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp is a temporary roof, and a temporary roof still has to send its water somewhere sensible. That second half is the part almost every emergency crew leaves out of the job.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in this market means the East Street and Monocacy corridors, the flex and light-industrial parks strung along the interstates, and the older brick buildings downtown that now hold offices, restaurants and apartments above them. Those are three genuinely different roofs and they get three different specifications.
Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers, not public adjusters and not insurance agents, and Maryland keeps those roles separate for good reason. Our job is to record a roof precisely enough that whoever ends up handling your claim is working from facts.
What Frederick Customers Say
They spent twenty minutes in the back yard before a ladder ever came off the truck, then showed me why one downspout was taking the entire rear slope. Two outlets and a spreader later, the wet corner of the basement has stayed dry through two seasons.
Our standing seam needed one section replaced and three other companies quoted shingle instead. These folks matched the crimped profile, explained what the commission would and would not accept, and left the rest of the roof alone.
Hail came through and I was ready to file. They counted strikes in a test square on each slope, showed me the gutter apron was untouched, and told me not to bother. Nobody has ever talked me out of a claim before.
Tight lot, tall house, and a rear ell roof that had been patched for years. They rebuilt the low-slope section in rubber, moved the outlet, and carried the water around to the front where there was somewhere for it to actually go.
Frederick Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Frederick, Maryland, handling roof replacement, hail and wind damage, leaks, standing seam metal, low-slope membrane on porches and additions, attic ventilation, chimney flashing, gutters and commercial roofing right across the county.
We do one thing differently and it changes every estimate we write. Frederick County's residential standard plan holds the drainage area feeding each rooftop downspout to five hundred square feet or less, and requires that the water leave through vegetation, without scouring, out to the property line. So we count outlets off roof-plane area rather than off the corners of the house, and we show you on paper where every one of them lands.
That matters here more than it does in most markets. The Maryland Geological Survey names this valley as one of the two places in the state where collapse sinkholes are most prevalent, and its own fact sheet blames concentrated runoff from large roof areas for the soil piping behind them. A roof that sheds beautifully into a single point in the yard has moved the problem rather than solved it.
About Frederick Roof Pros in Frederick, MD
Frederick Roof Pros works Frederick, Walkersville, Middletown, Urbana, Brunswick, Thurmont, Emmitsburg and the smaller communities across the county. Roofing is the whole business: asphalt laminate, standing seam metal, low-slope membrane on porches and additions, ventilation, chimney flashing, and the gutter and outlet work that decides whether any of the rest of it lasts.
The way we scope a job comes straight from where we work. The Frederick Valley sits on carbonate rock, and both the state's stormwater manual and the Maryland Geological Survey treat concentrated roof discharge as something to design around rather than ignore. So every estimate we write states the roof-plane area feeding each downspout and what receives the water at grade. It costs us time, and it has cost us jobs to contractors who leave it out entirely.
When not to call us. If your roof has five or more good years left in it, we will say so and charge nothing for the visit.
If the water in your basement is coming from grade, from a filled-in swale or from a neighbor's re-routed runoff, that is not our trade and we will point you at whose it is.
And if what you want is a dry well, a shingle coating or a nail-over, we are the wrong firm and there is no hard feeling in it.
Recent Projects Across the Frederick Valley
Service Areas
Frederick Roof Pros serves Frederick, MD and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Roofing in Frederick and Across the Frederick Valley
We roof and maintain flex and light-industrial buildings along the interstate corridors, medical and office space near the hospital, and the older brick buildings downtown that now carry offices, restaurants and apartments above them. Large roofs are exactly the case the state's geology fact sheet singles out for concentrating infiltration, so every commercial scope we write inventories the drains, scuppers and leaders alongside the membrane itself.
- ✓TPO at sixty and eighty mil, EPDM, and two-ply modified bitumen
- ✓No open flame on occupied or attached buildings, cold-applied and self-adhered only
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate and crickets to eliminate standing water at drains
- ✓Roof drain, clamping ring, strainer and scupper inventory with every scope
- ✓Storm leader discharge points traced and recorded, never assumed from old drawings
- ✓Rooftop equipment curbs, gas line supports and penetrations resealed on schedule
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance with a dated photo log the building keeps
- ✓Core samples before any restoration, so wet insulation is found before it is coated
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does a roofing company keep talking to me about downspouts?
Because in Frederick County the roof and its discharge are one system on paper. The residential standard plan limits the drainage area feeding each rooftop downspout to five hundred square feet, caps the impervious area reaching any single discharge point at a thousand, and requires leaders to discharge and drain continuously through vegetation in a non-erosive manner out to the property line. A roof quote that ignores all of that is only half a quote.
Is a sinkhole a roofing problem?
Not directly, and we will never tell you it is. But the Maryland Geological Survey's fact sheet on karst is explicit that buildings with large roof areas change how water infiltrates by channeling runoff to places where it soaks in more concentrated, and that re-routed rooftop runoff can pipe soil out from under a neighboring property.
The Frederick Valley is named as one of the two areas in Maryland where collapse sinkholes are most prevalent. That is a very good reason to care where your leaders land.
Does the City of Frederick require a permit for a reroof?
The city lists re-roofing as requiring a permit when sheathing and/or framing is involved. Since a proper tear-off means walking the deck and replacing anything soft, that covers most replacements. We pull it in your name and it is in the price, not a surprise line item halfway through the job.
My house is downtown. Does the historic commission review my roof?
If the property sits in the Frederick Town Historic District, exterior work goes through the Historic Preservation Commission. The published guidelines are quite specific about roofs: slate should be repaired before replacement and synthetic slate is considered case by case, standing seam is to be replaced in kind with manually crimped seams preferred, panels must be fabricated from flat stock, and ribbed or striated metal will not be approved. We check your address before quoting a material.
Can you bury my downspouts so they are out of the way?
On this valley floor, no. Piping a leader into a dry well, a stone pit or an infiltration box concentrates a roof's water into a single point and pushes it down into the ground, which is the practice the state's stormwater manual restricts in karst and the geological survey associates with soil piping. We will run extensions past the drip line, build a swale or filter strip, or set a level spreader instead.
Will my homeowner's insurance cover ground movement around the house?
Ask your carrier in writing, because most homeowner policies exclude earth movement and no roofing warranty covers it. We are roofers, not adjusters or agents. What we will do is document the roof accurately with dated photographs, measured diagrams and moisture readings, meet your adjuster on site, and tell you honestly when the damage sits below your deductible and is not worth a claim.