Chimney flashing repair
Step and counter flashing done properly.
A slate roof full of sound slate can leak everywhere at once, because the nails and flashings failed long before the stone did.
The Ohio Valley has real slate on it — the older streets in Steubenville, Wheeling's Victorian housing, and the substantial homes the steel and glass money built along the river a century ago. Much of it is still serviceable, and much of it has been abused by people who treated it like asphalt.
Slate does not fail the way shingles do. The tiles outlast the nails holding them and the flashings around them, so a roof with decades of life left starts leaking in several places at once because the fasteners rusted through and the valley and chimney metal is done.
Individual slates can be removed and re-hung properly with a copper or stainless hook, or a nail and bib. Done right the repair disappears into the field. Tearing off a sound slate roof because a few pieces slipped is an expensive mistake that cannot be undone.
Step and counter flashing done properly.
Photos and findings before anyone quotes a tear-off.
Trace the path instead of patching the stain.
Primary coverage is Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, with regular dispatch into the close South Hills, North Hills, and Washington County towns.
Yes. A broken slate is removed and re-hung with a copper or stainless hook, or a nail and bib. Done properly the repair disappears into the field.
Because the nails and flashings fail before the slate does. A roof full of sound slate can leak everywhere because the fasteners rusted through.
That's a budget and character decision, not a technical one. Sound slate can be maintained for decades, and asphalt on a slate-era house rarely looks right or lasts as long.
24/7 dispatch for leaks, storm damage, hail, fallen limbs and ice dams across the Ohio Valley.