Muncie Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Matthews, IN — Grant County, population 494. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Matthews homes and businesses.
Matthews property owners near the Cumberland Covered Bridge, the old New Cumberland village at Matthews count on Muncie Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Matthews. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Muncie to every job in Matthews, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 816-2821 for a free roofing estimate in Matthews, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Matthews, IN
Matthews holds two hundred and thirty-four housing units on a third of a square mile, and the answer to the permit question is the Grant County Area Plan Commission. The commission holds planning jurisdiction over Matthews along with Fairmount, Jonesboro, Upland, Van Buren and Sweetser, and its own guidance still says to call the town hall as well.
That is worth more here than in a bigger town, because Area Plan actually names the work. Its guidance asks whether the job is replacing or repairing a roof and puts it under work that needs a permit, and its published fee schedule prices roofing at thirty-two dollars. A town of five hundred people has a clearer written answer than most Indiana cities.
The stock is old and a meaningful share of it is not stick-built. Thirty-four percent of Matthews homes predate 1940, another sixty-two units date from the 1960s, and close to thirteen percent of the housing is manufactured. A manufactured roof is a separate trade decision, different fasteners, different edge detail, and a metal-over-metal option that does not apply to the frame houses beside it.
The Cumberland Covered Bridge over the Mississinewa is a fair summary of the maintenance problem here. A timber structure over water needs the water taken away from it, not merely shed. The same is true of the houses in the old New Cumberland village at Matthews, sitting on the same bank.
River-bottom sites change what we specify. Higher ground moisture pushes more water vapor into an attic from below, and on a pre-war house with no vapor barrier that condenses on the underside of the sheathing in January and reads as a roof leak in March. We check the sheathing for frost staining before we agree that you have a leak at all.
Storm records within six miles of Matthews since 2000 show seventeen hail events against only ten thunderstorm wind reports, which is the reverse of most of this footprint. Hail-heavy, wind-light. That argues for an impact-resistant shingle class on a roof you intend to keep, and against spending the same money on a heavier ridge and rake detail you will not need.
The Matthews-specific advice: at this size there is no local roofer and no local inspector standing between you and a bad job. On 16 May 2025 a three-foot-diameter tree came down across Wheeling Pike within five miles of here, and the crews that follow that kind of event are not from Grant County. Ask for the Area Plan permit number before anyone opens a bundle.
Getting a free estimate in Matthews
Call (844) 816-2821 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Matthews, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Hagerstown, IN and the rest of East Central Indiana. Everything starts at the Muncie Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Matthews, IN
Muncie Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Matthews that we do in Muncie — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Nearly every roof in Muncie is asphalt shingle, and nearly every one of them sits on board decking rather than plywood. That single fact drives more of our specification decisions than the shingle brand on the wrapper ever will.
- Metal Roofing — Metal is the product we most often talk somebody out of, and it seems worth being direct about the reason here rather than burying it four paragraphs down a page where nobody will read it. A 24-gauge standing seam roof with concealed clips and a factory finish is genuinely excellent.
- Tile Roofing — Tile is rare in Muncie and we will not pretend otherwise. What exists is mostly original clay on a small number of substantial houses and institutional buildings from the 1910s and 1920s, plus a handful of concrete tile roofs added much later.
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Muncie carries far more low-slope roofing than the street view suggests, because almost none of it sits on the main house. It is on the rear additions, the enclosed back porches and the small extensions added over a century of families needing one more room.
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — Coatings have one narrow and genuine use, and a much wider use as a way of postponing a decision that has already been made by the roof. We would rather be useful about the first than paid for the second.
- Roof Ventilation — More Muncie roofs die of poor ventilation than of weather. A shingle cooked from underneath by trapped attic heat loses its life quietly and on schedule, and the owner blames the storm that finally took the tabs off.
See the full list of Muncie services, or call (844) 816-2821.
About Matthews, IN — and why local matters here
Matthews sits in Grant County with a population of roughly 494, close enough to Muncie that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Cumberland Covered Bridge, the old New Cumberland village at Matthews.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Matthews properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Grant County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Popular services in Matthews: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Hagerstown, IN and East Central Indiana.