Marco Salas
Senior project manager
Runs storm inspections north of I-270 and has met more insurance adjusters on more roofs than anyone in Franklin County.
Our story
A family business that still answers its own phone
Founded by Frank Hart in 1998, run today by his daughter Dana, and roofed by a crew that has, on average, been with us for eleven years.
If you would not put it on your own mother's house, it does not go on anybody's.
Since 1998
It started with one truck, one ladder and a bad storm season
The spring of 1998 brought hail the size of golf balls to the north side of Columbus, and a wave of out of state crews behind it. Frank Hart had spent sixteen years roofing for other people. He watched neighbors pay deposits to companies that disappeared by August.
So he bought a used F-250, painted his name on the door and made one promise: whatever happened, he would answer the phone. That promise is still the first thing we teach every new hire.
Today we are forty two people, eight crews and a small office on Mill Creek Road. Dana Hart runs the company, her son Luke leads crew one, and Frank still turns up at the yard most mornings to check the trucks are loaded properly.
How we work
Four rules nobody here gets to bend
01
Answer the phone
A person, not a menu. Storm season included, weekends included.
02
Our crew, our name
No subcontractors. If someone is on your roof, they are on our payroll.
03
The price is the price
Decking, permits and disposal priced up front. No surprise invoices.
04
Leave it cleaner
Two magnetic sweeps, gutters cleared and driveway blown before we leave.
Milestones
Twenty seven years in Central Ohio
1998
Frank Hart starts Hartline Roofing after the north side hail storms.
2004
Crew two added. First commercial job, a church roof in Clintonville.
2011
Dana Hart joins and builds the insurance claims department.
2016
Factory certification, putting us in the top 3% of installers nationally.
2020
Standing seam metal division opens with an on site panel roller.
2025
Roof number 6,000. Luke Hart, third generation, becomes lead foreman.
The people
Who you will actually meet
Luke Hart
Lead foreman, crew one
Third generation. Started sweeping nails at fourteen, ran his first crew at twenty three.
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People on the Hartline payroll
Eight crews, three project managers and an office that knows your street. Average time with us: eleven years.
Reviews
What Columbus says after the dumpster leaves
“Hail took out half the street. Hartline was the only company that got on the roof with the adjuster and argued for the vents and gutters. We paid our deductible and not a cent more.”
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4.9 / 5
Average across 612 verified reviews