Skip to content Discovering that your roof needs repairs is never welcome news. Whether it’s a minor leak or a major section of damage, you need skilled roofing professionals who can fix the issue and restore your roof to top condition. The problem is, most homeowners don’t have a trusted contractor they can call right away—and many aren’t sure where to start looking. That’s where Frogtown Roofing comes in. We’re Ohio’s go-to roof repair specialists.
Give us a call today before your home turns into a swamp. We’ll come out, inspect the damage, and provide you with a free repair estimate.
To ensure we deliver top-notch roof repairs for our valued customers in the Northwest OH area, we continuously train and educate ourselves on the industry’s best practices. Thanks to our proven expertise, we’re honored to hold impressive certifications, including the CertainTeed SELECT ShingleMaster™ certification, the highest credentialing from this esteemed manufacturer. This means that we can offer 5-Star Warranty protection—that’s a lifetime guarantee of our workmanship—for our customers’ investments.
Findlay sits at the southern edge of our service area. Our crews come from the Frogtown Roofing Plus office at 315 N Main St in Bowling Green, about 27 miles north on I-75. That puts most Findlay addresses around half an hour from our door.
We don’t have a storefront in Hancock County, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What we do have is a team that knows the I-75 corridor and plans Findlay repairs so they aren’t treated as an afterthought. Half an hour is close enough to come back after a hard rain and confirm the repair is holding, and close enough that you’re dealing with a regional company you can actually visit.
Findlay’s first town lots were laid out in 1821, but the town really took off in the 1880s, when it became a center of natural gas and oil production. The population jumped from 4,633 in 1880 to 18,553 by 1890. The Findlay Daily Courier reported on January 1, 1889, that about 2,000 residences had been built in the previous 18 months, much of it with brick, stone, lime and lumber produced locally.
Plenty of that housing still stands along North Main, South Main and West Sandusky Streets. Those homes are well over a century old now, and most have been reroofed several times. Some got a new layer of shingles laid right over the old one, and many picked up additions and porch roofs in later decades. Today Findlay has 40,313 residents and 19,327 housing units (2020 census), with newer neighborhoods spreading out from that historic core.
On the gas boom houses, leaks rarely start in the middle of the roof. They start where something interrupts it: a chimney, a dormer, a valley, or the seam where a 1920s addition meets an 1880s roofline. Each of those joints depends on flashing, and flashing is usually the first thing to fail on an old house.
Layered roofs are the other common issue. When a second layer of shingles goes over the first, nails don’t seat as firmly, heat builds up between layers, and rot in the decking stays hidden until it shows up on a ceiling. We can often make a targeted repair on a two-layer roof, but if the damage is widespread, a tear-off is the honest answer, because building codes generally don’t allow a third layer.
Ventilation is the quiet problem in many older houses. Plenty of attics were never vented to modern standards, and when a later owner added insulation without adding vents, the attic started trapping summer heat and winter moisture. That bakes shingles from below and slowly rots the decking, so we check the attic on every Findlay repair, not just the roof surface.
Findlay also gets the same freeze-thaw swings and open-country wind as the rest of the I-75 corridor. Water that gets under a loose shingle in November freezes, expands, and lifts it a little further every cycle. Catching that early keeps a minor fix from becoming a decking replacement.
Findlay homeowners deserve a roofer who shows up when promised and comes back if something isn’t right. Our reputation runs up and down I-75, and every repair we make in Hancock County is backed by the same workmanship warranty we offer at home in Wood County.
