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ROOFING, GUTTERS, SIDING, WINDOWSExterior Servicesin Martinsburg, WV
The roof, the gutter, the flashing behind the siding, and the head flashing over your windows are one water management system. Almost every mystery leak we chase in Berkeley County sits in the seam between two trades, where neither one owned the detail. We work out of 1886 Winchester Ave in Martinsburg, so the whole envelope is one crew and one phone number.
Leaking right now
Emergency response
We answer 24 hours. Tarped and stabilized before more gets inside.
Planning ahead
Free inspection
Written scope and photos so you know what the roof actually needs.
Request your free estimate
Six things we get called about, and what each one really means
Every exterior component on your house has the same job. Move water down and out. Break one link and the water does not stop. It finds wood.
A brown stain a full story below the roof
Usually a missing kickout flashing where a roof slope dies into a sidewall, often over a garage or a bay. Without it, that whole slope sends its runoff down the face of the wall and in behind the siding. It travels inside the cavity, so you find out when the rim joist rots and you are paying a framer instead of a roofer.
Rotted fascia behind a gutter that drains fine
Water leaving a shingle edge wraps. Surface tension pulls it around the drip edge and back onto the fascia, and with no gutter apron tucked over the back lip, it runs behind the gutter in every rain. The gutter stays clean while the fascia and the sheathing edge come apart. Ignore it and the gutter loses the wood it is fastened to.
Soft drywall beside a window
Replacement windows very rarely leak through the window. They leak around it. A head flashing lapped over the housewrap instead of under it funnels water straight into the wall, and a missing sill pan gives it nowhere to drain back out. Left alone it takes the sheathing and the framing under the opening.
An attic that cooks in July
Perforated vinyl soffit looks correct from the driveway even when the builder never cut the slot in the sheathing behind it. Holes in a panel with plywood on the other side move no air. Heat and moisture stall in the attic, shingles age from underneath, and your shingle warranty has a ventilation clause the manufacturer will read very carefully the day you file a claim.
Gutters that overflow only in a hard rain
That is almost never a clog. It is a drainage area problem. The gutter is undersized or there are not enough downspouts for the roof area feeding it, so a short heavy storm outruns the system. The overflow lands at the foundation, which is where basement water usually starts.
Siding that ripples, opens at the seams, or holds moss
Cladding is the raincoat, not the waterproofing. Once panels move or seams open, the weather resistive barrier behind them is doing all the work, and if its lap sequence was wrong the wall has been slowly wetting for years. Growth on a north wall usually means the wall is staying damp instead of drying.
What happens from your first call to the final walk
1. Somebody picks up
We are open 24 hours, seven days a week. If water is coming in right now, that call gets an emergency response and a tarp, not a message taken for Monday morning.
2. Free exterior inspection
We walk the roof, the gutter line, every roof to wall termination, the windows, and the attic on the same visit. Chasing one of those without the other four is how people pay for a roof that was never the problem.
3. Photos and a written scope
You get pictures of what we actually found and a scope that names the details, the kickouts, the apron, the flashing at the openings, not just a square count and a number.
4. The honest recommendation
If it is a repair, we say repair. If the roof has under a decade left and you are considering solar, we tell you to replace first so you are not paying to remove and reset an array later.
5. Sequencing, then installation
Roof edge metal and the gutter apron go on with the roof. Windows get set and flashed into the housewrap before the siding closes the wall. Gutters hang last so ladders and staging do not dent them.
6. Final walk and cleanup
We magnet sweep, haul the debris, and walk the finished work with you. Anything you flag on that walk is our problem, not a change order.
The details that decide whether the envelope holds
Drip edge and gutter apron
The apron carries runoff into the gutter instead of behind it. It tucks under the shingle edge, which means it cannot be added later without lifting courses, so a reroof is the only cheap moment to get it right on a Martinsburg house.
Step flashing and the kickout
Step flashing weaves up the wall course by course. The last piece gets bent out to throw water clear of the siding and into the gutter. It is a bent piece of metal and it is the most expensive detail in residential construction to leave off.
Gutter size and downspout count
We size to the roof area actually draining into each run, which is why we spend more time on downspout placement than on the gutter itself. Storms here drop a lot of water in a short window and Berkeley County has heavy tree cover, so volume and debris are both real.
Weather resistive barrier and lap sequence
The housewrap decides whether the wall dries. Every lap has to shingle over the one below it so anything that gets past the cladding drains back out to daylight instead of running into the framing.
Sill pan, jamb flashing, head flashing
Full frame or insert is the first decision. After that, the sill pan catches what gets in, the jamb flashing laps over the pan, and the head flashing goes under the housewrap. Get that order backward and the wall funnels water inward.
Soffit, fascia, and intake air
Soffit and fascia work is the moment you learn whether the attic has any intake at all. We keep pulling perforated soffit in the Spring Mills and Falling Waters subdivisions and finding solid sheathing behind it because the builder never cut the slot.
Intake and exhaust, balanced
Adding ridge vent to an attic with no intake does nothing. Air has to enter low and leave high. Balanced ventilation is what keeps shingles from aging from the underside through a Panhandle summer.
Why homeowners in Berkeley County call us
A Martinsburg address, not a service radius
1886 Winchester Ave, Martinsburg, WV 25405. Berkeley County is where we are, not a market we drive to.
Licensed in five states
VA, WV, MD, PA, FL. Licensed, bonded, and insured, and we hand you the West Virginia license number on the proposal.
Family owned since 2016
Same owners, same crew. Still here in March when the out of town storm crews have moved on.
One crew owns the handoffs
The kickout, the gutter apron, the window head flashing, and the housewrap lap get detailed by the same people, so there is nobody to point at when water shows up.
Pick the piece you need
Gutter Installation
New systems, forming, hangers, pitch, and the apron detail, sized to the roof area actually draining into them.
Gutter Repair
For a sound system that is pulling loose, sagging in the middle, or leaking at the miters.
Siding Installation
Water management with a look attached, including the barrier lap sequence and the soffit and fascia behind it.
Window Replacement
Full frame versus insert, then the sill pan, jamb flashing, and head flashing lapped correctly under the housewrap.
Steel Building Construction
New pre engineered steel buildings, which almost nobody else in this market offers.
Solar Panel Installation
Treated as a roofing decision first, so you are not paying to remove and reset an array later.
Residential Roofing
Shingle, metal, and specialty roofs, plus the attic ventilation math that decides how long any of it lasts.
Roof Repair
Pipe boots, step and kickout flashing, chimney counterflashing, and valleys. Much of what gets sold as a replacement is a repair.
Roof Replacement
The first move when a roof has under a decade left, especially before anything gets mounted on it.
Commercial Roofing
Low slope membrane, coatings, and metal for warehouse, retail, church, and institutional buildings along the I-81 corridor.
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, and the surrounding valley
Do not see your town? We work the whole corridor, so ask or call (540) 550-9703.
Questions we get about exterior work
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Where are you actually located?
1886 Winchester Ave in Martinsburg, West Virginia. That is a Berkeley County address, not a mailbox or a service radius drawn on a map. It means our trucks start here, our crews live here, and a callback next spring is a short drive rather than a scheduling problem. We carry a West Virginia contractor license as well, which the state requires above the statutory threshold, requires in advertising, and requires posted at the job site. Ask us for the number. Ask everyone else for theirs.
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Do I have to do the roof and the gutters at the same time?
No. Plenty of gutters outlive two roofs. But if the roof is coming off anyway, that is the only cheap moment to add a gutter apron, because the apron tucks under the shingle edge and cannot be installed later without lifting courses. If your existing gutters are sound, we detach and reset them as part of the roof job rather than selling you new ones. If they are already sagging or leaking at the miters, look at gutter repair first and decide from there.
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My ceiling is stained and two roofers told me the roof is fine. Who is right?
Both of them, usually. A stain well below a roof plane is very often a missing kickout flashing at a roof to wall termination, a window head flashing lapped over the housewrap instead of under it, or condensation rather than a leak at all. Condensation only shows up in cold weather, only when it is not raining, and the water is clean. We check the roof, the wall, the window, and the attic on the same visit, because chasing one of those without the other three is how people end up paying for a roof that was never the problem.
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Can you match my siding if only one wall is damaged?
Sometimes. We pull a piece and try before we promise anything. Profiles get discontinued, and even a current color has faded on the wall for a decade, so a factory match can still read as a patch in direct sun. On an insurance repair, what decides the outcome is the matching language in your own policy rather than anything the contractor wants, so read that section before you agree to a partial. We will tell you honestly whether the patch is going to be visible and let you decide.
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Do I need a permit for siding or window work here?
It depends on which jurisdiction you are in, and Berkeley County and the City of Martinsburg are two separate systems with two separate permit offices. Before we start we confirm which one your property actually falls under and what your specific scope triggers, because the answer is different for a full siding tear off than it is for a like for like window swap. If your property sits in the historic overlay district, alterations also go before the Historic Preservation Review Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness, which we cover in more detail on our specialty roofing page.
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Will new soffit and siding fix my hot attic?
Only if the intake was never there to begin with, which around here it frequently is not. Perforated vinyl soffit looks correct from the driveway even when the builder never cut the slot in the sheathing behind it, so you have holes in a panel with plywood on the other side and no air moving. We pull one panel and look. It takes thirty seconds. Adding more ridge vent will not fix an attic with no intake, and your shingle warranty has a ventilation clause the manufacturer will read very carefully the day you file a claim.
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What exterior work do you not do?
We do not build decks, pour concrete, pave, or paint. If your problem needs a mason or a grader, you will hear that on the first visit instead of getting a quote for something we are not the right company to do. What we do own is the water management envelope, meaning the roof, the edge metal, the gutters, the wall barrier, the siding, the openings, and the attic ventilation behind all of it.
Free exterior inspection in Martinsburg and Berkeley County
We walk the roof, the gutter line, the wall terminations, the windows, and the attic, then hand you photos of what we found. If the answer is a repair, we will say so. Call (540) 550-9703 or email Info@BlackStoneRoofing.org. Somebody picks up, including at 2 a.m.