Ashland, Ohio, roofing since 1945, call (419) 289-8255

Eighty one years of roofs, a national magazine cover, and nowhere online to show any of it.

Scott's & LaRue Roofing has been roofing in Ashland since 1945. Their own listing says it best: we install all roofing materials, from lead coated copper standing seam, which we bend up by hand with the same tools we used back in 1945, and we still hand nail all of our shingles. A copper roof they built south of Ashland ended up on the cover of a national log home magazine. None of that is anywhere a customer can find it. This page is what a real site would look like. Call (419) 289-8255.

Ask about your roof Call (419) 289-8255

What they do

Copper bent by hand, shingles nailed by hand, and the old roof hauled off in a dump truck.

Everything on this list is taken from the company's own chamber listing or from their own paid newspaper advertisement, in their words rather than anybody else's. Note the dump truck line, because it is a genuine selling point almost nobody else makes. If what you need is not here, ring (419) 289-8255 and ask, because there is no website and no email you can rely on.

Copper Standing Seam

Their own words: we install all roofing materials, from lead coated copper standing seam, which we bend up by hand with the same tools we used back in 1945. This is the work that put one of their roofs on the cover of a national log home magazine in September 2007, on a cabin built south of Ashland. Almost no roofer in this county offers it. Photo shows aged copper with its green patina.

Standing Seam Metal Roofing

The same hand bending skill applies to standing seam in other metals, and their listings put them under roofing contractors and building contractors for both residential and commercial work. Metal is the roof people ask about when they are tired of replacing shingles every fifteen years. Ring (419) 289-8255 and ask what it would take on your roof, and what it would cost against a shingle tear off.

Shingle Roofs, Hand Nailed

Their listing says we still hand nail all of our shingles, and their newspaper advertisement says they install everything from lifetime architectural shingles up. Hand nailing is slower than a gun and a lot of crews stopped doing it. Whether that matters to you is worth a conversation, but it is a real difference and they say it out loud, so it is fair to ask them why they still do it.

Tear Off and Haul Away

This is the line that should be on a billboard and is instead buried in a chamber directory: we use a dump truck when removing roofing materials, so the homeowners are never burdened with dumpsters sitting on their property. Anybody who has had a skip parked on their drive for two weeks knows exactly what that is worth. Nobody looking for a roofer in Ashland can currently read it.

Siding, Windows and Trim

Their chamber listing says they install all types of roofing materials, windows, siding, soffit and spouting, and the newspaper advertisement adds siding and seamless gutters. So this is not just a roofing shop. If you are replacing a roof anyway, it is worth asking what the siding and the windows would add, because one crew and one trip is usually cheaper than two.

Seamless Spouting and Gutters

Seamless gutters are named in their own advertisement and spouting is named on their chamber listing. Gutters are the thing people put off until water is running down the wall or into the basement. If somebody is already up on your roof, this is the cheapest moment there will ever be to sort them. Ask when you ring (419) 289-8255.

Finished work

Their own directory listing has a Visit Website button, and it opens a competitor.

This is not an exaggeration and it is worth reading twice. On their largest directory listing, the blue Visit Website button does not go to their site, because they do not have one. It goes to the directory page of another roofing company in Ashland. That same broken link has already been copied onto a second national map site. So a share of the people who search for Scott's & LaRue by name are being handed straight to a competitor by a page carrying their name. The photos below are stock, because there is not one photograph of their work anywhere online.

A log home with a metal roof, the kind of job that made the magazine

Aged copper, the material this shop bends by hand

Two roofers harnessed in on a shingle roof

Carrying bundles up, the part nobody photographs

A roof stripped back to bare decking

An ordinary house roofline, which is most of the work

Spouting and siding, the rest of the outside

How it works

How to get a roof priced.

Call (419) 289-8255

This is the reliable number. It is on the chamber listing, the business bureau, Google, and on their own paid newspaper advertisement, which is as close to first party as it gets. A second number, (419) 289-3310, appears on one directory listing and on a page that copies from it, and that same listing carries several other proven errors, so treat it as the weaker one.

Say what the roof is and what it is doing

Shingle, metal, copper, flat, or something you cannot name. Then say what is wrong: a leak in one spot, missing shingles after a wind, staining on a ceiling, or simply that it is thirty years old. Repair and replacement are completely different conversations, and their advertisement says the same people who quote the job also install it, so you are not talking to a salesman.

Get the tear off and the haul away in writing

Ask what happens to the old roof. Their own listing says they use a dump truck rather than leaving a skip on your driveway, so ask them to confirm that on your job. Ask about the decking too, because rotten boards under an old roof are the single most common reason a roofing price moves after the work starts.

Ask about the material warranty

Their chamber listing states that they guarantee all work for the lifetime of the material, which is their claim and their wording, not ours. That is a strong thing to say, so it is worth asking them to explain exactly what it covers and to put it on the quote. A guarantee everybody remembers differently is worth less than one that is written down.

About us

A business that started in 1945 is being described online by a machine that has never met them.

Here is what is live right now for anybody searching this company. Their biggest directory listing has a Visit Website button pointing at another Ashland roofer, and a map site has copied that same link. A neighborhood app publishes their website as the directory itself, alongside an email address on a domain that no longer exists at all, so anything sent to it disappears. Their Google listing is unclaimed and shows Own this business, Add hours, Add website and Add photos to the public, with no owner reply under any review. A review platform still advertises the dead domain as their website. A business data site lists their founding year as 1965 and names a contact who does not appear anywhere else in the family. Their categories on one listing include Home Centers and Home Builders, neither of which they are. Their hours are published two different ways in two places and not at all on Google. And there are exactly six real reviews of this company on the entire internet, four on Google and two on Yelp, one of which reads: I have been using Scott LaRue Roofing for probably 50 years, their service is great, quality is the best. Eighty one years, five people, a national magazine cover, and the strongest thing online is a link to somebody else.

■Lead coated copper standing seam, bent by hand, in their own words

■Shingles still hand nailed, in their own words

■Windows, siding, soffit and seamless spouting

■Old roof taken away in a dump truck rather than a skip on your drive

■Residential and commercial work, per their own listing

■Family business started in 1945, LaRue joined in 1962

■A copper roof they built was the September 2007 cover story of a national log home magazine

Hours

MondayPlease call to confirm

TuesdayPlease call to confirm

WednesdayPlease call to confirm

ThursdayPlease call to confirm

FridayPlease call to confirm

SaturdayPlease call to confirm

SundayPlease call to confirm

The published hours do not agree, so this page asks you to call rather than print a guess. Two directory pages say Monday to Friday 9:30am to 5:00pm. Two others say Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm. Google carries no hours at all and shows an Add hours prompt to the public. Nothing anywhere states a weekend position. Roofing is weather work in any case, so the honest answer is to ring (419) 289-8255 and speak to somebody. Getting one set of hours published in one place they control is the single cheapest fix on this whole list.

Find us

Ashland, OH 44805

Two addresses are live for this business and they do not agree, so this page names the town instead of guessing. The chamber member listing, which is the one a member updates themselves, carries a Cleveland Avenue rear address. The business bureau, Google, and several national directories all carry a Sandusky Street address that also appears on their 2015 newspaper advertisement. Roofs get priced at the house anyway. Call (419) 289-8255 and somebody will come and look at it. Work is across Ashland and Ashland County.

(419) 289-8255

Get in touch

Tell us about the roof.

A leak, a wind that took shingles off, a ceiling stain, a roof that is simply old, or copper work that nobody else in the county will touch. Say what the roof is made of and what it is doing, and you will get a real answer. Calling (419) 289-8255 is still the fastest route and this form works too.