About Metal Roofing Columbus OH
Most Columbus homeowners don’t call us first. They call us after the second asphalt replacement — sometimes mid-cycle, when the shingles that were supposed to last 25 years are already curling at year 12. By that point they’re not looking for the cheapest option. They’re looking for the last one. That’s where we come in.
We’re a metal roofing contractor based on Stimmel Rd on Columbus’s south side. We do residential and commercial work across Franklin County and the surrounding metro. We’ve been doing this since 2012 — not as a side service alongside vinyl siding and gutters, but as the only thing we do.
How We Got Here
The people who started this company spent the early part of their careers in general roofing — doing everything from asphalt replacements in Hilliard to flat commercial work near the Rickenbacker corridor. That gave us a clear-eyed view of how the asphalt cycle actually works. A roof goes on. It performs fine for a few years. Then Ohio’s freeze-thaw seasons start doing their damage — shingles crack, tabs curl, granules wash into the gutters — and the clock starts running toward the next replacement.
We saw the same families calling back every 12 to 15 years. We watched insurance claims get undervalued because the homeowner didn’t know what storm damage actually looked like from the adjuster’s side. We got tired of selling a product that was designed to be replaced.
Around 2012 we made a deliberate shift. We stopped doing asphalt. We invested in the equipment, training, and material sourcing to do metal roofing properly — standing seam roll-forming done on-site, Kynar 500-coated steel and aluminum from American mills, and a crew trained specifically on metal systems rather than just transferred over from shingle work. That decision made us a narrower company, but a significantly better one.
Why We Only Do Metal?
People ask us regularly why we don’t offer asphalt as an option. The honest answer is that we could, but we’d be worse at it than the contractors who specialize in it — and we’d be worse at metal too.
Metal roofing is a different trade. The tools are different, the underlayment requirements are different, the way you handle valleys, flashings, and penetrations is different, and the consequences of getting those details wrong show up years later in ways that are expensive to fix. A general contractor doing a metal roof as one job type among six is going to treat it like a general contractor. We treat it like the only thing we know.
That focus is why we can roll-form standing seam panels on-site to exact lengths — no field cuts, no waste, no panels trimmed down from a standard size. It’s why we use high-temperature synthetic underlayments designed for metal applications, not the standard felt that most shingle crews default to. And it’s why when something isn’t right on an install, we catch it during the job rather than after a homeowner calls about a leak two winters later.
What Working With Us Actually Looks Like?
Every job starts with a free on-site inspection. We get on the roof, look at the deck condition, check the attic ventilation, measure everything, and photograph anything that needs attention before the new roof goes on. You get an itemized written quote that covers materials, labor, permit fees, and disposal. Franklin County requires a building permit for full roof replacements — that fee is in the quote we hand you, not added later.
We don’t use subcontractors. The crew that shows up on day one is the same crew that does the install and the same crew that walks the job with you before we pull out of the driveway. If something comes up during the project, you talk to the same people — not a call center, not a regional dispatch number, not a project coordinator who relays messages to a crew they’ve never met.
After the job, we’re still your roofer. Our workmanship warranty covers labor, the manufacturer warranty covers materials, and most of our warranties transfer to the new owner when you sell — which matters in the Columbus real estate market more than most homeowners realize until they’re at the closing table.
Our Service Area
We’re based on Stimmel Rd, which puts us within a reasonable drive of every neighborhood in the Columbus metro. We’ve done residential work in German Village, Clintonville, Bexley, Eastmoor, Upper Arlington, and New Albany. We’ve done commercial installs near the Rickenbacker corridor and along the retail strips in Gahanna and Reynoldsburg. We serve all of Franklin County and regularly work in Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, and Pickaway counties as well.
If you’re within the metro, we can generally be out for a free inspection within a few days of your call.
Our Crew
James Thompson
ForemanJames has been running crews on Columbus rooftops for over a decade. He came up doing commercial flat work near downtown before shifting exclusively to metal systems. He’s the one who does the final walkthrough with every homeowner — not because it’s policy, but because he’d rather spend 20 minutes checking the work himself than get a callback six months later.
William Hayes
Lead InstallerWilliam handles the standing seam installs and the detail work most crews rush through — the valleys, the chimney flashings, the eave edges. He’s the reason we tell homeowners that those areas get more attention from us than any other part of the system, because that’s where water finds its way in on every metal roof that eventually leaks.
Michael Carter
Project ManagerMichael coordinates the schedule, material orders, and permit filings. If Franklin County’s building department needs paperwork, he’s already on it before the job starts. He’s also the first call when a homeowner has a question mid-project — and he actually picks up.
Robert Jenkins
Sheet Metal WorkerRobert handles custom fabrication — the flashings, the trim pieces, the transitions that have to be cut and formed on-site to fit the specific geometry of each roof. He’s been doing metalwork longer than most of the crew has been in roofing, and it shows in the way his seams sit.
David Mitchell
Safety OfficerDavid keeps the job site running cleanly — fall protection, equipment setup, site organization, and end-of-day cleanup. He’s also the one running the magnetic sweeps across the lawn before we call a job done, because nobody should find a fastener with their foot three weeks after we’ve left.
Charles Patton
HelperCharles handles material staging, site prep, and the hundred small things that keep an install moving on schedule. He’s newer to the crew but not new to working — he came to us from commercial construction and knew how to handle a job site from day one.
One Straight Answer on Cost
Metal roofing costs more upfront than asphalt. On a standard Columbus home — 2,000 square feet, moderate roof complexity — most of our full installs fall somewhere between $18,000 and $32,000 with permits, tear-off, and disposal included. That number is higher than what an asphalt crew quotes.
What changes the comparison is the timeline. Asphalt in Central Ohio lasts 12 to 20 years before it needs full replacement — and that’s if the freeze-thaw cycles and spring hailstorms are kind. A properly installed metal roof lasts 50 to 70 years. Run the numbers over one ownership cycle and the cost comparison shifts considerably. We’ll walk you through it on the estimate if you want to see the math laid out side by side.
Contact Us Today
We’re straightforward to reach and we don’t hand calls off to an answering service.
Phone: (614) 612-9797
Email: [email protected]
Address: 1091 Stimmel Rd, Columbus, OH 43223, United States
Serving: Columbus, OH & All Surrounding Communities