Roofing in Overland Park, KS

Overland Park runs north to south across almost twenty miles, and the roofs change the whole way down. North of 75th Street you are looking at fifties and sixties ranches on established lots with mature oaks over them. The middle of the city is heavy with seventies and eighties two-stories, a lot of them originally hung with cedar shake. South of 135th the subdivisions are newer, bigger, and steeper, with roof lines complicated enough that flashing details matter more than the shingle you pick.

The cedar shake conversions are the thing to know about here. Thousands of Overland Park homes were built with wood shake and converted to composition at some point in the last thirty years. When that conversion was done cheaply, the crew left the original spaced sheathing in place and laid shingles over a thin overlay board. It works until it doesn't. When we tear one of those off we frequently find sheathing that was never meant to carry a nailed asphalt system, and the fix is a full re-deck rather than a patch.

Overland Park takes hail hard and takes it often. The storms that build over eastern Kansas in late spring track right across Johnson County, and there are streets here that have been through three insurable hail events in a decade. Because so many houses were built in the same few years by the same few builders, when hail hits, it hits a whole subdivision's worth of identical roofs at once. That is why the out-of-town crews show up here first, and why we tell people to check a contractor's Kansas registration before signing anything.

We treat Overland Park, roughly 10 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City, as core territory for our KC branch. The number is 913-281-6000, answered 24/7. Kansas license KS14-004306 covers our roofing work here.