Michael Dannenhauer

When it’s time to replace or repair your roof, you’ll find no shortage of contractors willing to give you an estimate. But not all roofing companies are created equal, and where a company is based, how long it’s been serving your community, and whether it plans to stick around matter more than most homeowners realize. […]

There’s a certain feeling that hits Central Ohio every August: the marching band starts practicing, scarlet and gray shows up in every other driveway, and suddenly every Saturday from September through November has a plan attached to it. Around here, football season isn’t just a schedule, it’s a season in the literal sense, and it

If it feels like Central Ohio has been under a near-constant drizzle this August, you’re not imagining it. Between the heat dome breaks and the string of afternoon storms rolling through Westerville, Dublin, Powell, and Gahanna, a lot of area homes have taken more rain in the last few weeks than in the two months

Central Ohio doesn’t flood like the coasts, but anyone who’s lived through a heavy spring storm season, or watched a summer pop-up thunderstorm dump two inches of rain in twenty minutes, knows we get our own version of the problem. Slow-draining yards, water creeping toward the foundation, gutters overflowing onto the siding. It adds up

If you’ve been putting off replacing that faded, cracked, or storm-damaged siding, here’s some friendly advice from your neighbors at Roof Ohio: don’t wait until spring. Late summer and early fall are actually the smartest window to get new siding installed before Central Ohio’s weather turns on us. We’ve been doing this work in Westerville,

If you live anywhere in the Columbus area, you didn’t need a meteorologist to tell you Tuesday was bad. The National Weather Service has preliminarily confirmed that the storm system that tore through Central Ohio on August 11th was a derecho: a rare, long-lived windstorm that behaves less like a typical thunderstorm and more like