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Chimney Repair With Masonry Repairs

25 Nov
Reader Roofing Chimney Repair

The two-layer roof had bad wood around the chimney from leaking issues and the chimney masonry was leaking as well with a small tree growing from the bricks. Started by completing masonry repairs by grinding out of all joints between bricks from roof line to the top, removing the crown on top around the flues. […]

Chimney Repair

25 Nov
Reader Roofing chimney job

The mortar between the bricks on this chimney was failing, lose and very porous allowing water penetration coupled with sub-par masonry tuckpointing repairs attempted by others. The top portion of the chimney was so bad the bricks all needed to be reset in new mortar completely and the top section of the flue pipe replaced. […]

Hunting Valley Roofing Contractors

16 May
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Hunting Valley is a small but lovely suburb located on Cleveland’s East side in Geauga County. We were called to this beautiful home displaying highly decorative stone veneer and exquisite windows. The careful home owner was not willing to trust just anyone to install his new roof. He wanted a company with a proven track […]

Asphalt Shingle Replacement

22 Apr
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Asphalt shingles are the most common type of residential roofing material that we remove and replace on a regular basis. We recently replaced aging and deteriorating shingles with high quality 30 year dimensional shingle in Cleveland Heights. Our customers had a porch with weather-beaten shingles. The possibilities of structural damage from leaks and rot were […]

East Cleveland Family Saved From Roofing Damage

04 Dec

The time had come to replace this weather beaten old roof with a new 30 year dimensional shingle.Rain storms produced leaks, winter risked ice build up and with the potential of ice dams- but worse was the worry of doing nothing. The homeowner was comfortable with asphalt shingles. They are known to be durable- especially […]

Fallen Tree Uplifts Lakewood Family

02 Dec

  The serenity of a cool April morning was soon crushed with the way ward smash of  a careening tree branch across the roof of a Lakewood home – and worse news was to follow. The roof was slate and not the domain of amateurs. Calling the lowest bidder was surly a terrible mistake as […]

Improperly Installed Shingles

02 Dec

Substandard work had caused ice build up on the roof of a home owner in Fairview Park – A suburb of Cleveland. The stress of a lousy job and pleading from the homeowner made no difference to the crew that did the work.The damages were left untreated. The resulting ice damage and leaks had to […]

New Home-Garage Roof – East Cleveland

09 Oct
Reader Roofing crew install new roof on East Cleveland home.

This homeowner knew that his home and garage roof were in need of work. He called Reader Roofing in August to assess the situation and suggest a means of attack. Assessing the Situation Chris, our residential roofing representative, had a look over the old roofs. He notice that both the house roof and garage roof […]

Cleveland Roofers Repair Church – East Side

04 Sep
This Church trusted the Cleveland roofers at Reader Roofing.

One of our long-time customers contacted us because they had a leak. This church roof was reaching the end of its utility. They knew they could contact their most trusted Cleveland roofers, Reader Roofing, to get the job done right. Assessing the Situation One of our owners, Mike Reader, was the sales rep who responded to this […]