Flat Roof Repair & Roofing in Washington, PA
Washington is the Washington County seat, and its downtown shows it: brick commercial buildings along Main Street with parapet walls and flat roofs, the county courthouse and offices around it, Washington & Jefferson College, and a lot of churches. The neighborhoods around downtown are mostly older frame and brick houses, many with a flat roof over the front porch, a back kitchen or a second-floor sleeping porch. Out along I-70, I-79 and Route 19 in the surrounding townships, the buildings are newer: plazas, offices, hotels and industrial buildings, most of them on single-ply roofs.
Roofs we work on in Washington
- Brick storefronts and offices along Main Street and Beau Street
- Churches, schools and college buildings
- Older houses with flat front-porch and back-kitchen roofs
- Plazas, offices and hotels along Route 19 and the I-70/I-79 corridor
- Warehouses and industrial buildings in the surrounding townships
What goes wrong on Washington roofs
Downtown, the trouble spots are the parapets. Old brick parapet walls lose mortar, their coping stones shift, and water gets in behind the flashing and runs down inside the wall, so the leak shows up a floor below the roof. Many of those buildings also have several layers of old built-up roofing under the current membrane. On houses, flat porch roofs fail where they tie into the front wall and at the gutter edge, often after years of tar patches. Along the highway corridors, the problems are drains and rooftop equipment: clogged drains in the fall and flashings around units added after the roof went on.
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Flat and commercial roofing services
Flat Roof Repair in Washington
Learn more Typically $6 – $13 per sq ftFlat Roof Replacement in Washington
Learn more Leak repairs $350 – $2,500Commercial Roofing in Washington
Learn more Active leaks handled firstEmergency Roof Repair in Washington
Learn more Coatings typically $2 – $5 per sq ftCoatings & Inspections in Washington
Learn moreAlso serving the area around Washington
Along with Washington, we work in South Strabane Township, North Strabane Township, Canton Township, Chartiers Township, East Washington, Houston, Canonsburg, Claysville, West Middletown, Burgettstown, and the rest of Washington County. See every town we serve on the areas served page.
Roofing in Washington: FAQs
Yes. On older brick buildings the leak is often in the parapet itself (loose coping, open mortar joints, failed counter-flashing) rather than the roof field. We check the wall as well as the membrane, and photograph what we find. See commercial roofing.
Yes. A porch roof is a small job, but it has to be flashed properly into the house wall and sloped to the gutter, or it leaks again. Most get EPDM rubber or modified bitumen. See flat roof replacement.
Yes: South Strabane, North Strabane, Canton, Chartiers, North Franklin and the rest of Washington County within 50 miles of Pittsburgh. See the full service area.