Roofing in the Plain City area

Ridge vent against box vents

A continuous ridge slot pulls air along the entire peak, which is why it outperforms a row of box vents on most houses. Box vents still win in specific situations: a hip roof with almost no ridge to cut, a roof broken into separate attic spaces that do not share air, or a low ridge where a slot would sit under drifted snow all winter.

Never mix the two on one attic

Put both on the same space and the ridge pulls its air from the nearest box vent instead of from the soffit. The attic barely moves and the roof looks correctly vented from the driveway.

Fasteners rust from the inside out

Screws and nails on a roof within reach of the lake air corrode faster than the same hardware would inland. A plain steel nail head disappears under a shingle and takes years off the roof’s hold without a single visible symptom. Hot-dipped galvanized or stainless where the metal is exposed is a small line item that decides whether the roof reaches its rated life.

Mixed metals make it worse

Aluminum flashing pinned with the wrong screw sets up a reaction that eats the softer metal at every contact point.

We look at the old nails

What came out of the last roof tells you what to put in the new one.

Ventilation gets fixed during the roof

A replacement is the one moment when correcting attic airflow is cheap, because the roof is already open. Cutting a ridge slot, adding the right amount of exhaust, and clearing blocked soffit intake takes a fraction of the time it would take as a separate job later.

We calculate rather than guess

Net free area on the intake side has to at least match the exhaust side, and it usually does not on an older house.

Then the attic stops sweating

Which is often what the homeowner actually called about.

Repair or replace, honestly

Not every leak is a new roof. A cracked pipe boot, a lifted flashing, a handful of wind-damaged tabs on one slope: those are repairs, and we do them. The line gets crossed when the mat is brittle across the whole roof, when granule loss is general rather than local, or when the repair count keeps climbing.

How we tell you

We say which one it is and why, and if it is a repair we do not walk it up into a replacement.

Second generation on a roof

This is a family trade here. The owner learned it working for his uncle, who did not tolerate a sloppy valley, and those habits carry into every job the name goes on. Twenty-seven years in the trade is the owner’s own time on roofs, learned before there was a company.

Eight years under this name

The Hancock Signature name has been on trucks for eight of those years. Two different numbers, and we keep them straight because the difference is the whole story.

When a crew finds something unexpected

Halfway through a tear-off somebody finds a rafter tail rotted out, or a chimney with no flashing under the shingles at all, or a previous repair done with roofing cement and a prayer. The rule on our jobs is that work stops on that section and somebody calls you with a photograph before a dollar of additional work happens.

You can say no

Sometimes the right answer is to document it, close it up properly, and deal with it later. That is your call to make, and we will tell you what we think without needing you to agree.