Roofing Specialists Inc restores the roofs of landmark churches, courthouses, and public buildings across the Southeast. The work is slate, tile, cedar, and copper, matched to the original materials and methods and executed to preservation standards — including the Secretary of the Interior's Standards. The proof is standing: the Fayette County Courthouse, in slate and copper, and the Roselawn Museum and Estate in Bartow County, Georgia.
The buildings this work serves
Churches with century-old slate over the sanctuary. Courthouses whose copper details were soldered by hand generations ago. Museums, depots, and public buildings that a county or a congregation is responsible for keeping. These roofs are not ordinary replacements, and they should not be handed to an ordinary roofing company.
Historic work asks more of a roofer than a replacement does: research before anything is touched, documentation throughout, and craft that answers to a standard written down by somebody else.
How a restoration starts
It starts with what is there. We document existing conditions, learn what the roof was built with and why, and then match original materials and methods — sourcing discontinued Ludowici tile profiles, blending new tile into a 75-year-old field, and matching slate so the repair disappears into the roof.
Where a preservation standard governs the building, the work answers to it. At the Roselawn Museum and Estate, our copper sheet-metal work and slate shingle installation were executed to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards, and the project's registered architect recommended the county keep using our firm on its historic buildings.
Proof, standing
The Fayette County Courthouse carries our slate and copper. The City of Decatur's 1903 railroad depot carries roughly 85 squares of our double-lock standing-seam metal, installed for the depot's relocation and stabilization in a complex hip and cross-hip configuration. Churches, museums, and landmark homes across the Southeast carry more of it. Our historic restoration page lays out the approach in full.
For landmark projects we travel up to about 1,000 miles from Atlanta. If you steward a historic building, start the conversation with the building — not with a product line.
— Gary Shank