Roofing Contractor in Silver Spring, MD

Silver Spring is an older, built-out edge city pressed against the top of Washington, and most of its neighborhoods sit inside the Beltway on established streets under mature trees. Places like Woodside and Woodside Park have stood for generations, which means older roof structures and a lot of overhanging canopy that keeps shingles damp and shaded.

The housing runs dense and close, so protecting the neighbor's roof and property is part of every job. We scope each roof for the algae and worn, leaf-clogged valleys that older shaded homes show first.

Silver Spring's houses go back further than most people expect, and that age tells us what is under the shingles. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch opened through here on April 30, 1873, and the first suburban development appeared in 1887, when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on present-day Colesville Road, now U.S. Route 29, into five- and ten-acre plots.

E. Brooke Lee, called the father of modern Silver Spring, and his brother founded the Lee Development Company early in the 20th century, and the winding Dale Drive was built to open up the family's holdings. On winding roads like Dale Drive we settle dumpster placement and material staging before the crew arrives.

Woodside Park is where the tree canopy matters most. Woodside Development Corporation created it in 1922 as a neighborhood of one-acre home sites, built on the former Noyes estate in 1923, and those trees have had a century to grow over the roofline.

Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who bought much of the surrounding land. Acorn Park, south of downtown, is believed to be the site of that spring.

Blair completed a 20-room mansion he called Silver Spring on a 250-acre homestead in 1842, moved there permanently in 1854, and the house stood until 1954. Abraham Lincoln visited it during the Civil War, and in 1864 Confederate General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring before the Battle of Fort Stevens.

Downtown is the oldest and most urbanized part, ringed by the inner suburban neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway where most of the housing sits. The Beltway's first two-mile segment, near Georgia Avenue, opened on December 19, 1961, and Metro service arrived in 1978.

Silver Spring is a census-designated place in southeastern Montgomery County next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., and although officially unincorporated it is an edge city. Its neighborhoods include Woodside, Woodside Park, Lyttonsville, Long Branch, Indian Spring, Goodacre Knolls, Franklin Knolls, Montgomery Knolls, Oakview, and Woodmoor.

Roof or siding work in Silver Spring? Call (667) 200-6656 or book a free inspection.