About Masonline Roofing Co
The short version
Masonline Roofing Co is a Cleveland roofing company founded in 2022 by Steve Lasko, who spent the fourteen years before that in brick masonry, rebuilding chimneys across Cuyahoga County. The company does two things, roof repair and roof replacement, and it does both from the junction outward: read where the roof meets brick, wall, valley, and eave first, write down what the winter has done there, and price only what that reading supports.
How a chimney mason ends up founding a roofing company
Steve went into masonry in 2008 and found his corner of it quickly: chimneys. Rebuilds from the roofline up, crown pours, tuckpointing, the work that happens on a ladder platform against brick while the roof slopes away below. It is good trade work, and it comes with a recurring phone call. Water shows near a chimney. The homeowner calls a roofer. The roofer looks at the stain, looks at the chimney, and says the words masonry companies hear all winter: call a mason.
So Steve climbed, year after year, to chimneys whose mortar was sound. What he found instead lived an inch away from the brick, in the metal and the courses around it. Step flashing that had been face-sealed with caulk instead of woven course by course into the shingles. Counterflashing laid flat over a joint and smeared shut, pretty for one season. Wide chimneys with no cricket behind them, holding a snowdrift against the brick from December to March while meltwater worked the seam. And eaves dammed with ice, backing water under sound shingles on houses where the roof had done nothing wrong at all.
The pattern taught him two things. The first is mechanical: in this climate, roofs let water in at their junctions far more often than through their fields, and the junction belongs to no trade, because the mason stops at the brick and the roofer stops at the shingle and the seam between them gets sealant and good wishes. The second is about blame: a leak gets assigned to whichever trade is not in the room, and the homeowner pays for the argument in repeat visits.
The company he built instead
Masonline Roofing Co opened in Old Brooklyn in 2022 with the junction as its founding habit. Every estimate visit reads the chimneys, wall lines, valleys, eaves, and vents before the field gets a verdict, because fourteen winters of mason calls said that is the order the failures arrive in. Where the brick itself really has failed, the visit says so plainly, and says that part is a mason's job, because a company founded on honest blame assignment does not start grabbing both sides of the seam.
The crew is deliberately small. Pete Wozniak leads the roof work; Steve knew his flashing from years of shared chimneys, where Pete's junctions were the ones that never generated the call. Janet Kubiak runs the office and the winter call book. Every roof the company reads joins a record kept by address, so a returning leak starts from the last reading instead of from memory.
What we believe, stated as working rules
- A repair should rebuild the detail that failed. Sealant over
a dead junction is a postponement, and postponements should be named before a homeowner pays for one.
- A replacement should be argued from the roof's condition,
not its birthday. Age is a reason to read a roof closely, not a verdict by itself.
- Blame belongs to the detail, not to the other trade. If the
brick failed, say brick. If the flashing failed, say flashing. The homeowner deserves the seam read whole.
- Winter is a condition, not an excuse or a promise. Snow
load sets real limits on roof work, and saying so plainly is part of the job.
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