Roofing company in Silver Spring, MD

Nearly four in five homes in 20901 were built before 1970. Around here, the roof you are replacing is rarely the first one the house has had.

Silver Spring has no city government. It is an unincorporated place in Montgomery County, and the name on the mail stretches across seven ZIPs that take in Four Corners, Forest Glen, Kemp Mill, White Oak, Hillandale, Colesville, Fairland, Wheaton and Aspen Hill. Nearly all of it is Montgomery County, though part of 20903 falls in Prince George’s County. Those are very different housing stocks, which is why a quote here should start with the house rather than the town.

The inner neighborhoods are the older ones. Woodside Park was laid out in 1923, Four Corners grew from the late 1930s and was largely built by the late 1950s, and houses in Forest Glen’s Forest Estates started going up in 1947. In 20901 about 69% of homes were built between 1940 and 1969, and in 20910 roughly one in eight predates 1940. Houses that age have been reroofed more than once, so what matters is underneath: decking that was covered instead of replaced, and chimney flashing that has outlived two crews.

Further out the picture changes. In 20904, which covers Colesville and Fairland, the 1980s were the biggest building decade, and 20906 has more than 5,500 townhouses. Those roofs are more often builder-grade shingle reaching the end of a normal life on sound decking, a clean replacement rather than a rebuild. On a townhouse, the detail where your roof meets the next one matters as much as the middle, because a failure there reaches your neighbor too.

Some Silver Spring properties are also on Montgomery County’s Master Plan for Historic Preservation, including the National Park Seminary Historic District in Forest Glen and houses in the Capitol View Park Historic District. Exterior work on a Master Plan property, including changes to exterior materials, needs a Historic Area Work Permit reviewed by the county’s Historic Preservation Commission. A National Register listing on its own is a different thing, and does not restrict owners. Most houses here are not listed at all, and we check yours before a material is chosen.

Permit requirements come from Montgomery County and depend on whether the work is like-for-like or structural. We confirm what your address needs before work starts.

Housing figures are from published census data for ZIPs 20901, 20904, 20906 and 20910. Historic designation per Montgomery Planning.