Roofing Built for Mission Hills' Historic Estates

Mission Hills is one of the oldest and most architecturally distinctive communities in the Kansas City metro, and its roofs ask more of a contractor than a typical subdivision does. C. Nichols' planned garden-community vision through the Mission Hills Home Company, founded in 1914. Many of its estates were built across the decades that followed.

The result is a streetscape of Tudor Revivals with steep intersecting gables and tall chimneys, French and Georgian-influenced homes, and Spanish and Mediterranean-style residences. Many are topped with slate, tile, or heavy architectural shingles. On homes like these, a roof is part of the architecture.

MCO Roofing approaches every Mission Hills project with that in mind, matching profiles, colors, and detailing so a repair or replacement reads as original rather than added on.

Complex rooflines are the rule here, not the exception. Multiple intersecting planes, dormers, steep pitches, valleys, and ornamental chimneys all create more places where water can find its way in. They also add more flashing, underlayment, and transition details that have to be done correctly.

Older homes also frequently hide layers of history beneath the surface, from original decking to past repairs that were never quite right. We take the time to assess what is actually up there before we quote, so the scope reflects your home's real condition instead of a one-size-fits-all template.

Where a roof calls for premium materials or specialty matching, we will tell you plainly what the options are and what each one means for cost and longevity.

Mission Hills sits in Johnson County, which falls squarely inside the Kansas City metro hail corridor. Peak storm season runs roughly from March into early summer, and the damage is rarely subtle: large hail and straight-line winds are what take roofs apart here, not slow wear.

This past spring was an especially active one across Johnson County. One late-April storm dropped hail well over an inch and pushed wind gusts strong enough to knock out power across nearby Overland Park, Olathe, and Lenexa.

Mature trees, a signature of these older neighborhoods, add another layer of risk when branches come down on a roof. After any significant storm, it is worth having an experienced roofer look closely.

Hail bruising and lifted or cracked tiles and shingles often are not visible from the ground, yet they can shorten a roof's life and complicate a later insurance claim.

MCO Roofing is a family-owned Kansas City metro residential roofing company, and we are proud to serve Mission Hills homeowners. We handle roof replacement, roof repair, free roof inspections, storm and hail damage restoration, and written roof damage documentation.

We are happy to walk a complicated estate roof with you and explain exactly what we find. If a recent storm has you concerned, or you simply want a knowledgeable set of eyes on an older roof before it becomes a problem, give us a call at (913) 954-4501.

We will get a free inspection scheduled.