Roofing in Olathe, KS

Olathe is where a lot of the metro's newer housing went up, and it kept going up through several distinct building eras. The older core near downtown has modest postwar homes on small lots. West of K-7 the subdivisions are newer and larger. What that means practically is that a big share of Olathe roofs are hitting the end of their first or second life cycle right now, all at roughly the same time, which is why so many streets here are seeing crews.

Builder-grade three-tab was standard on a lot of the nineties construction here, and where it has not already been replaced it is well past done. Three-tab has a single layer of mat and it fails differently than architectural shingle, it goes brittle and the tabs crack across the face rather than losing granules gradually. The newer construction west of town mostly went on with architectural shingle, which holds up better, but a lot of it was installed fast during a building boom and the flashing details show it.

Olathe sits right in the path of the storms that build over eastern Kansas and move northeast into the metro. It is one of the first places in the DMA to get hit, which means it is also one of the first places the out-of-state crews set up after an event. Kansas requires roofing contractors to register with the state, and that registration number is the fastest way to sort a real company from a truck with a magnet on the door.

Our Kansas City crews reach Olathe, about 20 miles southwest of downtown, the same way they cover the rest of Johnson County. Call 913-281-6000 and a live person answers at any hour. Our crews work in Kansas under roofing license KS14-004306.