Matthews Roofing Contractor for Homes and Businesses

The two-story homes that fill the subdivisions off Weddington Road, Pleasant Plains Road and Sardis Road were mostly built with steep main roofs, front-facing gables and a handful of hips and valleys. Those valleys, and the joints where a garage roof meets the main house, are where we find the most leaks, usually because the original step flashing or valley metal wore out at the same time as the shingles. Closer to downtown and in Crestdale, we see more plank-decked roofs that have been layered over, chimneys that need new counterflashing and additions that were tied in without a proper cricket behind the chimney or a kick-out at the wall.

Matthews also has a large share of townhome and active-adult housing, and those communities tend to replace roofs on a schedule that covers every building at once. We plan that work with the board or the management company, phase it so residents always know which buildings are next and keep the site clean between phases.

Matthews lies on the same storm tracks that cross the rest of southern Mecklenburg County, and the heavy tree cover in its older neighborhoods adds its own kind of wear. Summer thunderstorms bring wind that lifts shingles along ridges and rake edges, hail that bruises the shingle mat without always leaving a visible mark, and limbs that fall from mature oaks and pines onto the roofs below. Shaded north-facing slopes hold moisture, so algae streaking and moss are routine on roofs more than a decade old. After a storm we walk the entire roof rather than just the obvious spots, because hail damage is rarely visible from the driveway.

The commercial roofs in Matthews are concentrated along Independence Boulevard, Monroe Road, Matthews Township Parkway and Sam Newell Road: shopping centers such as Sycamore Commons and Matthews Festival, medical offices around Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, restaurants, churches, auto service buildings and small office parks. Most of them carry TPO, EPDM or modified bitumen on low-slope decks, often with rooftop HVAC units whose curbs and condensate lines turn out to be the most common leak source.

We handle repairs, membrane replacement, restoration coatings and scheduled maintenance for these buildings, with reports that show a photo of every deficiency and a plan you can hand to an owner or a tenant. For occupied retail and medical space, we work around business hours and coordinate roof access so your operations keep running.

Most subdivisions built in Matthews since the 1980s are governed by homeowners associations whose architectural standards cover shingle color and style, and some restrict metal roofing or require specific profiles. We supply the manufacturer specifications and color samples your committee needs, and we build the time an approval takes into the schedule. Matthews falls under Mecklenburg County's permitting process, and where a permit is required for your roofing job we take care of the application and the inspection.