Gastonia Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Lawndale, NC — Cleveland County, population 570. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Lawndale homes and businesses.
Lawndale property owners near the Cleveland Mills dam on the First Broad River, the mouth of Knob Creek count on Gastonia Roof Pros for roof repair and replacement in Lawndale. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Gastonia to every job in Lawndale, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 879-4197 for a free roofing estimate in Lawndale, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Lawndale, NC
The median house in Lawndale was built in 1957, the oldest median of the twenty-five places on this site. Cherryville is 1970, Shelby is 1970, Gastonia is 1978. Lawndale is 1957, and only two of its 308 housing units have been built since 2010. No town we cover has an older median, and only Waco comes close on value.
Twenty percent of the town predates 1940 and another 34 percent came out of the 1940s and 1950s. Median value is $116,800. Seventy-six units, nearly a quarter of the town, are manufactured homes. That combination, very old stick-built stock beside a large manufactured share, is unusual and it splits our work here in two.
Two EF1 tornadoes have crossed this town. On 23 October 2017 one tracked 9.19 miles with a hundred-yard width and $100,000 of damage. On 6 February 2020 another developed west of town near West Stage Coach Trail and Church View Drive, crossed Hicks Hill, Casar Lawndale and New Bethel Church Roads, and cost $250,000.
Two EF1 tornadoes in three years, in a town of 570 people, is a genuinely high rate, and it is the one place on this page where a storm-driven roof conversation is supported by the record rather than manufactured for it. If someone cites Lawndale tornado history at your door, they are for once citing something real.
There is nothing in Lawndale on the National Register and no local historic district, so nothing constrains material or color. On a roof framed in 1957 that freedom is worth using: standing-seam or exposed-fastener metal panel is often the better long-term answer on a simple gable than a third layer of asphalt would be.
The town's mill and dam history on the First Broad River is real, but the housing that survives from it is thin and mixed in with post-war building and manufactured homes. We date each roof off layer count, board width and rafter dimension rather than off the town's founding story or the street name.
Building permits and inspections come from Cleveland County in Shelby. Under North Carolina law no state license is required below $40,000 of work, and at $40,000 and above the inspector cannot legally issue the permit without proof of one plus workers' compensation coverage. Ask for both regardless of what the number is.
About Lawndale, NC — and why local matters here
Lawndale sits in Cleveland County with a population of roughly 570, close enough to Gastonia that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Cleveland Mills dam on the First Broad River, the mouth of Knob Creek.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Lawndale properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Cleveland 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.
Getting a free estimate in Lawndale
Call (877) 879-4197 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Lawndale, 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 Lincolnton, NC and the rest of Gaston County and the western Charlotte metro. Everything starts at the Gastonia Roof Pros homepage.
What we take on in Lawndale
Gastonia Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Lawndale that we do in Gastonia — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Most low-slope roofing we do here happens on houses, not on commercial buildings, and it sits at the back: a kitchen added in 1955, a bathroom added in 1962, a porch enclosed sometime after that, each one a shallow shed tied into the original roof. Nearly all of them are shingled, and nearly all of them should not be.
- Hail Damage Roofing — This is the page where we talk most people out of something. Gastonia sits well east of the real hail alley, and on an older roof here most of what gets called hail damage is simply age, sun and granule loss.
- Insurance Claim Help — Insurance is where owning an old house gets expensive in ways nobody warns you about. On a hundred-year-old roof the fight is rarely about whether the storm happened.
- Metal Roofing — Metal belongs on these houses, and it was on plenty of them originally. The question is which metal, and the answer here is usually the opposite of what a salesperson will tell you.
- Roof Leak Repair — A leak on an old Gastonia house is almost never in the open field of the roof. It is at a penetration, a transition, or a chimney, and on the mill-house plans those three things sit in predictable places.
- Roof Skylight Installation — Small houses are dark houses, and the mill plans are small by design: four to six rooms, deep-set windows, and a hallway with no exterior wall. A skylight changes those rooms more than it changes a big open house.
See the full list of Gastonia services, or call (877) 879-4197.
Popular services in Lawndale: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Lincolnton, NC and Gaston County and the western Charlotte metro.