A licensed, GAF-certified roofing and restoration contractor based in Winchester. We work Madison and Clark County, and we are still reachable the year after the job.
Most of the roofing companies you will find for these three towns are not based in any of them. We are.
Velkan Restoration is locally owned and works out of Winchester, in Clark County. Search for a roofer in Richmond, Winchester or Berea and most of what comes back is a Lexington branch, a regional franchise, or an operation run from another state with these towns on a service-area list of nineteen. That is a legitimate way to run a business. It is just a different one.
Where it matters is the two moments that actually test a roofer: when a workmanship warranty needs honouring, and when a claim supplement needs filing four months after everyone else has moved on to the next weather system. Both are easier when the company is twenty minutes away.
Velkan is locally owned and based in Winchester. There is no national parent company setting the schedule, and no head office three states away.
This is worth knowing because of who else shows up in these search results. A good number of the roofing companies ranking for Richmond, Winchester and Berea are Lexington branches, regional franchises, or operations run out of another state entirely, with these towns on a service-area list of nineteen. That is a legitimate way to run a business. It is just a different one, and it matters most at the two moments that actually test a roofer: when a warranty needs honouring, and when a claim supplement needs filing four months after everyone has moved on.
GAF factory-certified installer
A real third-party credential, and it qualifies your roof for the full GAF manufacturer warranty, up to 50 years.
Every contractor in this market promises quality and integrity. These are the four specific behaviours you can hold us to instead.
We have turned down work by telling homeowners their roof had ten good years left, and what maintenance would help it get there. It costs us a job and it is why those people call back when it genuinely does need replacing.
Every inspection comes back as a written report with photographs and a condition rating per component. You should never have to take a contractor's word for what they say they saw on your roof.
We document damage in the format carriers expect, meet your adjuster on the roof, and file supplements when the first scope leaves out covered components. Not an add-on service, and not an extra charge.
A workmanship warranty is worth what the company behind it is still reachable for. Ours has a Clark County address, which is a different proposition from a crew that followed a hail line into the county.
Deliberately short. There is no "100% satisfaction guarantee" on this page and no star rating, because we have not got a verified one to show you. What is here is what we can put a document behind.
Licensed and insured
Kentucky contractor license with liability and workers' comp coverage.
Storm claim documentation
We photograph the damage, format the report for your carrier, and meet the adjuster on site.
Written workmanship warranty
Every installation carries written coverage on our labor.
Locally owned
Based in Clark County, working Madison County. Not a franchise.
Free inspections
We come to you, walk the roof, and tell you what it needs. No obligation.
This is what local actually buys you. Not a nicer feeling about the invoice, knowing before we get on the ladder what this particular town does to a roof.
Ice damming at the eaves
January, during freeze-thaw
Madison County's hilly terrain pools cold air in the lower neighborhoods, so snowmelt refreezes at the eave and backs water up under the shingles where no amount of surface sealant reaches it.
Richmond roofingHail bruising, then algae on the north slopes
Hail March to May, algae year-round after
Winchester sits in a corridor that channels storms up from the southwest, and it sits low enough that fog settles in the mornings through spring and fall. The hail cracks the shingle mat; the standing moisture on the north-facing slopes then feeds moss and algae into the damage.
Winchester roofingFreezing rain and terrain-driven runoff
Late winter
The Cumberland Plateau foothills load the southern end of the county with freezing rain rather than snow, and the sloped lots around Indian Fort Mountain funnel a whole roof's runoff to a couple of eave points instead of spreading it evenly.
Berea roofingAll of these are worth asking any contractor before you let them on your roof.
Over fifteen years, and more than 800 roofs installed. The business is based in Winchester and Richmond is our highest-volume city. That matters less as a credential than as a practical thing: we already know what each of these three towns does to a roof before we get on the ladder.
Yes, a Kentucky contractor license, general liability, and workers' compensation. Ask for the certificates and we will send them before we start; any contractor who hesitates at that request is telling you something.
No. It is locally owned, based in Winchester in Clark County, and there is no national parent setting the pricing or the schedule. Several of the companies you will find ranking for roofing in these towns are Lexington branches or out-of-state franchises, which is worth knowing when you compare.
The trades listed on this site are handled by our own crew. That is why the same person who inspected your roof is reachable about it afterwards.
Richmond, Winchester and Berea, across Madison and Clark County. Scheduling lead times are the same in all three, so Berea is not an outer edge we visit reluctantly. If you are just outside that, call and ask rather than assuming.
Free inspection, written report, photographs on every component. If it does not need work, that is what the report will say and you will not hear from us again unless you call.
Water coming in right now?
859-376-025424/7 for active leaks and storm damage