HOA and Condo Roofing in Columbus, Ohio
HOA and condo roofing in Columbus is almost never one person’s decision. A board has to see the evidence, compare bids that are not written the same way, and then defend a number to owners who did not ask for a special assessment. We build the packet that survives that meeting, and then our own licensed crews do the roofs. Veteran owned, fully licensed, and we never hand an association’s buildings to unlicensed subcontractors.
We Start With the Truth
Most roofing companies hand an association a one page bid and then wonder why nothing happens for eight months. A board cannot vote on a number. It needs a condition report for each building, options that are genuinely comparable, a phasing plan that fits what is actually in reserves, and something in writing it can put in front of owners. These are volunteers being asked to spend other people’s money, and the documentation is what makes that possible. That is the part we do differently.
What We Do
We inspect and photograph every building separately and grade it, so the board can see which roofs are failing now, which have a few years left, and which are fine. A written condition report turns an argument about opinions into a schedule.
Scope, materials with the specifications named, per building pricing, and alternates written so they line up against the other bids you are holding. If a competing quote leaves out the underlayment or the decking allowance, our packet shows the board exactly where.
Where reserves will not carry the whole community at once, we phase the work by building and hold the specification and the color across the phases, so year three still matches year one instead of becoming a second problem.
After hail we document every roof in the community to the standard an adjuster expects, meet them on site, and keep the claim consistent across buildings rather than letting each one get scoped differently by a different person.
The Proof
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Materials
The problem nobody warns a board about is matching. Shingles are made in color lots, product lines get discontinued, and a community phased across three budget years can end up with three visibly different roofs facing the same street. We plan for that from the first phase rather than discovering it in the third.
How It Gets Paid For
Almost every difficult association roof comes down to which of these three the board is working with, and most boards are working with more than one at the same time.
Associations are supposed to fund major replacement out of reserves. Where reserves cover it the board’s job is a scope and a schedule, and a dated condition report per building is what feeds a reserve study properly instead of contradicting it a year later.
When reserves fall short, which is common where dues have been held artificially low, the board levies a special assessment and each owner pays a share, usually proportional to their percentage interest. Owners generally cannot opt out by declining the work, and unpaid assessments can become a lien against the unit. Getting the roofs documented before the budget conversation rather than after is what keeps that meeting civil.
In a condominium the association’s master policy normally responds to hail and wind. The trap is the deductible: master policy wind and hail deductibles on multi building associations are frequently written as a percentage of insured value rather than a flat amount, and that number can be large enough that the association absorbs it through an assessment instead of claiming at all. Read that line before the storm, not after.
We offer financing options when they fit the project, and we will set them out in writing next to the repair and phased alternatives so the board can weigh the real cost of waiting another year against the cost of doing the work now.
See the Difference
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A real Professional Roofing Contractors project: full tear-off and replacement on the same Central Ohio home.
Local, Not a Call Center
From our downtown Columbus office at 59 E Gay St, we work with condominium associations, planned communities and property managers across Franklin and Delaware County, from the older stacked buildings near Grandview to the newer attached product out toward New Albany and Dublin.
Questions, Answered
In a condominium, governed by Ohio’s Condominium Act, the roof is normally a common element owned collectively by all owners, so the association handles it. In a planned community, which is what most people mean when they say HOA, you typically own your lot and the whole structure standing on it, roof included. That is only the default. Your declaration decides, and it beats every general rule, which we cover in our guide to who is responsible for a condo roof in Columbus.
Yes. We will walk the community, produce a written condition report with photographs for each building, and present the findings and the options at a board or owners meeting. Boards make better decisions when they can put questions to the person who was actually on the roofs, rather than reading a number off a page.
Phase it. We grade every building so you can see which roofs are failing now and which genuinely have time, replace the ones that cannot wait, and hold the specification and the color so the later phases still match. That gives the board a defensible order of work instead of replacing whichever building complained loudest.
Ask all three for the same six things: the shingle line and grade, the underlayment, the decking allowance and how bad decking gets priced, the flashing scope, a per building breakdown, and the warranty that is actually registrable on the work quoted. Most association bids fall apart at the decking allowance, because that is where a low number hides.
Yes, and we are used to the sequence: the manager arranges access, the board approves, the owners get notice. We handle resident notice, parking and driveway access on our side so the management office is not fielding calls all week.
It should be scoped as a single loss, but in practice adjusters often scope buildings inconsistently across a community. We document every roof to the same standard, meet the adjuster on site, and file supplements with photographs where a building was scoped short, so one building does not end up with a different roof to its neighbor.
We hold Ohio HIC License HIC-L01421 and we are insured and bonded. Every roof in an association is done by our own licensed, in house crews. We never hand an association’s buildings to unlicensed subcontractors.
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Ready When You Are
Tell us how many buildings you have and what the board is trying to decide. We will walk the community, document every roof, and give you something you can actually put to a vote. No pressure, no obligation.
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