Roofing Contractor in Hobart, Indiana

The classic Hobart roof is a 1950s-70s ranch or two-story with a moderate pitch and, often, multiple layers of shingle hiding tired decking. On these, a full tear-off is the honest path — it lets us replace soft sheathing, add modern ice-and-water at the eaves, and correct the thin ventilation these homes were built with.

The 2024 tornado-warned storm added acute wind damage on top of that slow aging — lifted shingles, torn ridge caps, and wind-driven leaks. Where a roof was already near the end, that storm was the deciding factor, and we build the replacements with wind-rated shingles and balanced attic airflow.

We work around Lake George and Festival Park, through the downtown Third Street district, and out toward Southlake Mall and the newer south-side subdivisions. After the July 15, 2024 storm, we documented wind-lifted shingles and a torn ridge on a mid-century home near Lake George and guided the owner through the claim.

On a 1960s ranch off Cleveland Avenue, we found two layers of shingle over decking softened by poor ventilation; we tore off to the deck, replaced the bad sheathing, and rebuilt with a properly vented, wind-rated system.

Do the arithmetic on Hobart’s housing and the replacement wave is already here. A city built out mostly from the 1950s through the 1970s means a huge share of roofs around Lake George have run well past the 20-to-30-year life of anything installed on them, often under two hidden layers that trapped heat against the decking for decades. The July 15, 2024 tornado-warned storm didn’t create that problem — it exposed it, tipping already-aged roofs into failure with lifted shingles and torn ridge caps. On a mid-century ranch off Cleveland Avenue, the right scope is a full tear-off to the deck, soft sheathing replaced, and modern ice-and-water plus balanced ventilation the original build never had.

The 1950s-70s homes wrapped around Lake George were built with shallow attics and almost no designed ventilation, and that does two bad things at once — it cooks the shingles from below in summer and feeds ice dams at the eaves every winter. On a tear-off near the Third Street district or off Cleveland Avenue, the fix isn’t only new shingles; it’s cutting soffit intake and adding ridge exhaust in a matched ratio so the deck stays cold, then running ice-and-water shield up from the eaves where the dams back up. Balance the airflow and the roof that grew icicles over the gutters stops making them — best done in late summer, before the snow.