Newark OH Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Somerset, OH — Perry County, population 1,796. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Somerset homes and businesses.
Somerset property owners near the Sheridan statue in the town circle, St. Joseph Catholic Church count on Newark OH Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Somerset OH. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Newark to every job in Somerset, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 502-0134 for a free roofing estimate in Somerset, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Somerset, OH
The Village of Somerset holds a registered .gov address that returns an empty page. There is no permits section, no fee schedule and no building guidance published behind it, which is worth knowing before you take anyone's word about what this village requires. It does not appear to publish requirements at all.
The county behind it does not fill the gap. The Mid-East Ohio Building Department serves Somerset from Zanesville and states that it has no authority over one, two, or three family dwellings. Its certification covers commercial construction. For a house on the circle, there is no residential plan review and no inspection at the end of a reroof.
Somerset is also the oldest incorporated place we serve after Alexandria. Three hundred of 644 units predate 1940, forty-seven percent, with a median build year of 1952. The Sheridan statue in the town circle and St. Joseph Catholic Church anchor a streetscape whose roofs have been carrying shingles since before the Residential Code of Ohio existed.
Which produces a real oddity in the numbers. Median home value here is $225,000 against $113,800 in New Lexington, ten miles down State Route 13, on a stock that is older and smaller. Pre-war houses that have been maintained are worth keeping properly roofed, and that changes the repair-versus-replace math on this square.
The storm record names one address directly. On 10 July 2013 a 52 mile per hour gust knocked down multiple trees at 215 Main Street. A second report the same hour dropped trees onto power lines along Buckeye Valley Road three and a half miles out. Neither is dramatic, and neither justifies a full replacement on its own.
The bigger event passed five miles north. That 96 mile per hour gust at Junction City on 22 July 2008 took a farmhouse roof off, and no tornado has ever been confirmed within five miles of Somerset. The hail ceiling here is 1.75 inches, from a single report on 28 April 2002 half a mile from the town circle.
On a mid-century roof over pre-war framing, the honest question is whether the field is sound. Where it is and the failure is a valley termination or a chimney saddle, we write the repair, price it, and do not return in six weeks with a replacement estimate for the same house.
Getting a free estimate in Somerset
Call (855) 502-0134 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Somerset, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Thornville, OH and the rest of Licking County. Everything starts at the Newark OH Premium Roofing homepage.
The roofing jobs Somerset calls us for
Newark OH Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Somerset that we do in Newark — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Standing Seam & Metal Roofing — The county's guidance letter covers asphalt shingle replacement. Metal is a different assembly with different rules, and in Newark it also meets a different substrate — plank decking with real gaps between boards, laid by hand a century ago.
- Slate & Tile Roofing — Newark has almost no clay tile and a surprising amount of real slate. Church roofs, the older houses on the hill streets, a scatter of nineteen-twenties builders' slate on the north side — and most of it is closer to serviceable than the people living under it assume.
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Low slope in Newark almost never means a flat commercial deck. It means a porch roof at one and a half in twelve, a shed dormer over a stair, or the back addition somebody put on a nineteen-thirties house in 1968 and roofed with whatever was on the truck.
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — This service exists on the list because people ask for it, and about half the time our answer is no. Coatings are an excellent product in a narrow band of applications, and the band does not include the roof most callers are describing.
- Attic Ventilation — This is the requirement that Newark roofs break most often. Section 806 requires enclosed attics and rafter spaces to be cross ventilated, and the letter states plainly that ventilation must be provided on a shingle replacement even if it did not exist before.
- Skylights & Sun Tunnels — Skylights are the most common source of a genuine leak on a Newark roof, and the most common thing we advise against adding. Both are true for one reason: they are a hole in the plane, and a hole in the plane is only as good as its flashing kit.
See the full list of Newark services, or call (855) 502-0134.
About Somerset, OH — and why local matters here
Somerset sits in Perry County with a population of roughly 1,796, close enough to Newark that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Sheridan statue in the town circle, St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Somerset properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Perry County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Popular services in Somerset: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Thornville, OH and Licking County.