Roofing for Burlington’s century-spanning housing stock
Burlington is the largest city in Alamance County and the easternmost edge of our regular service area — and its homes don’t look like the rest of the Triad. The city grew up around textile and manufacturing, and that history is written into the roofs we work on. In the older neighborhoods around downtown, north of Front Street and along the historic mill-village streets, the homes were built in waves, which means they tend to age out together: original brick chimneys with flashing well past its life, gutters that should have been replaced a decade ago, and roofs reaching end-of-life on the same block at the same time.
North and east of I-40, toward Elon University and Mebane, the story is different. There the housing is 1990s and 2000s construction, and the builder-grade roofs that went on then are all hitting the 20-to-25-year mark now. Same pattern as the rest of the Triad — different decade, same outcome.
Matching the roof to the Burlington home
Because Burlington’s residential stock spans more than 100 years, we install across the full range of systems rather than pushing one product on every house:
- Architectural asphalt shingles make up about 90% of what we install, and they’re the right call for the older Burlington neighborhoods and the mid-century ranches on their second or third roof. We install Owens Corning, GAF, and CertainTeed, and we’re an Owens Corning Platinum Preferred Contractor — the top 1% of OC contractors in North America.
- Designer shingles — Owens Corning Berkshire, GAF Grand Sequoia, CertainTeed Presidential — for the higher-end homes near Elon where the roof is highly visible from the street and curb appeal matters.
- Synthetic and real slate for the Victorian-era homes downtown that still carry their original slate. When repair is no longer economical, synthetic (CeDUR, DaVinci) replicates the look without the weight; when authenticity matters, we install real slate.
- Custom copper and stainless chimney caps, hand-custom-built, for the older brick chimneys you find throughout the city — exactly the chimneys that show up first on our flashing-rebuild calls.
Ventilation — the part that decides whether your new roof lasts 25 years or 35
Most builder-grade Burlington roofs — especially the 1990s and 2000s homes north of I-40 — went on with undersized or unbalanced ventilation. Heat builds in the attic, the decking cooks from below, and the shingles age out early. When we replace a roof, we bring ventilation to code (roughly 1 sq ft of net free area per 300 sq ft of attic, balanced intake to exhaust) and install continuous ridge vents with baffles — not the stamped aluminum vents that blow out in the first hailstorm. It’s the boring part of roofing that nobody talks about, and it’s the part that determines how long your investment actually lasts.
What’s different about roofing in Burlington
Burlington is about a 40-minute drive east of our Reynolda Road shop in Winston-Salem — the edge of our standard service area. We’re set up for it. Our crews work there regularly enough that the logistics are routine, and for multi-day jobs you may see the same trucks parked overnight at the property so commute time doesn’t eat into install time. Every crew is W-2 — no subcontractors, ever — so the people on your roof day one are the same people standing behind your warranty in year ten.
We also do honest inspections: real estate transactions, insurance documentation after a storm, annual maintenance. About 40% of our inspections end with “your roof is fine, see you in a few years.” We don’t use inspections as a sales tool, and we don’t pad scopes when the out-of-state storm chasers come through after a hail event.
Why Burlington homeowners choose Mid Atlantic
- Owens Corning Platinum Preferred Contractor — the highest designation OC awards
- A+ BBB, 4.8 stars on Google and Facebook
- In-house W-2 crews — no subcontractors
- 3-year workmanship warranty on every project, with manufacturer system warranties up to 50 years on premium installs
- Set up for the drive — Burlington scheduling and crew logistics are normal for us
Schedule a Burlington roofing estimate
Call (336) 671-5208 or request an estimate online. For Burlington, we typically schedule inspections within a week — slightly longer than our same-city scheduling, but still fast for major roofing work.