ABOUT US

Frederick Roof Repair and Frederick Roofing are both owned by Stefan Mach. I bought both names so as to prevent confusion and also to play the google game, if you know what I mean. More and more, people turn to the internet and type “where they are” and “what they need”.  Anyway, I graduated from Frostburg State University with a degree in Environmental Analysis and Planning in 1993. I have been roofing since I got out of high school in 1987. I roofed during the summer months when in college and continuously since about 1997. During the four missing years, I did a number of other things, including surveying and soil analysis work. I enjoy roofing, being outdoors, up high where you can see around you. I may be white collar by training, but I am blue collar by choice.

Maryland, and in particular, Frederick MD are areas very hard on asphalt shingle roof materials. The freeze/ thaw cycles stress and wear out at an accelerated rate these types of roofs. Emergencies do occur. Your natural inclination will be to   keep calling roofers until one picks up the phone. That is fine, but please do take the opportunity to fill out my contact form, which will alert me every which way but loose (texts, emails, sales pipeline alerts, immediate inclusion of your contact data into my contacts database, etc.) This makes it very easy to contact you as quickly as possible.

You can check on my status as a Maryland home improvement licensed contractor by going to the license number entry page of the Maryland Home Improvement Commission and typing my license number, 85927, into the box. This is the Maryland Home Improvement Commission website which licenses roofing contractors and keeps a current file on the status of all contractors. Please note the “odd” language on the commissions’ website. They use a double negative which translated means, “If you find a contractor listed here, they are currently licensed.”

 Hello,

Well it seems the phone has been all but ruined. Using myself as an example, I get up to 15 and no fewer than 5 phone calls a day that have nothing to do with roofing. The list of scams is apparently never ending, and now many of them even want to leave voicemails. The result is that the legitimate requests for help get buried in voicemail, and business owners are letting the phone go to voicemail because so much of the time, answering the phone means dealing with a scammer.

The solution is simple: Filling out a  form  . Should you choose to fill it out, here is what will happen on my end.

I will get a text message saying a form was filled out ( the form has a hidden field that robots fill out but people do not. If that field is filled out, the form submission will not be delivered. That way I do not get false submissions).

A lead will be added to my system for keeping track of potential customers, so I cannot miss it. Once in this system, our entire exchange history is tracked.  Additionally, an email will be sent to my inbox with the information you filled out, so I cannot miss it.

Your information will be auto-magically added as a contact to my phone thru the use of a third party tool called Zapier. I don’t even need to copy and paste your data over, and I don’t have typos in my contacts, because maybe I heard you wrong, etc. Of course, this means that if you fill out the form, and then wait 1/2 hour and call, your name will appear on the phone, and not just a number. This also helps me to discern between real customers and scams.

The system is pretty sweet. It accomplishes a lot, and places you front and center to be contacted back. I hope you do not view this as an inconvenience, but as a real attempt on my part to make sure your need does not get lost in the shuffle. I run a roofing company because I want to be a roofer, not because I want to talk to fake Google, etc. Last point. I am on the roof much of the time. Yes, I know it is crazy, but I, the owner, still roof. This can make it difficult to answer the phone, and makes dealing with scammers even less desirable.

My promise to you is that if you fill out the form, I will call you back, as quickly as possible.           

If you are concerned about the weather and the impact it may or may not have on your roofing project, please read,  ”Can Roofing Be Done in the Winter?”   for a thorough examination of this important question. 

 If you are in need of skylight repair or replacement, please take the time to view our skylights page which will show you an example of skylights being repaired. We also do new skylight installations. Don’t hesitate to call us at 301-788-3061 and ask us about our high quality PVC curb mounted skylight installations. Deck mounted skylights are acceptable but inferior to curb mounts in that manipulation or removal of the skylight requires an impact to the surrounding shingles. Curb mounted skylights, properly installed, forever separate the skylight from the shingles/ roofing surrounding them, enabling the roof and the skylight to be worked on separately.

This is valuable where roof and skylight do not fail at the same time. 

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