Where we work
Olathe is home. We cover the Johnson County towns around it — the whole southwest half of the Kansas City metro, from Prairie Village down to Spring Hill and west to De Soto.
Olathe, neighborhood by neighborhood
We are somewhere in the city most days. The old grid around the courthouse square, Santa Fe Street and Cherry, where the houses are a century old and on their fifth or sixth roof. Havencroft, Brougham, Black Bob and Indian Creek, the 1970s and '80s ranches where a four-in-twelve pitch and a single lifted course puts water straight into a living room. Persimmon Hill, Fairfield, Lakeshore, Forest View and Mill Creek. West across Ridgeview into Cedar Creek, Stonebridge, Arbor Creek, Heatherstone, Boulder Creek and Prairie Farms, where the steep 1990s and 2000s roofs have valleys, dormers and chimney crickets that fail long before the field shingles do. And out past Lone Elm and south of 151st, where the newest sections are still filling in.
- Old Town & Santa Fe
- Havencroft
- Brougham
- Black Bob
- Indian Creek
- Persimmon Hill
- Cedar Creek
- Stonebridge
- Arbor Creek
- Heatherstone
- Boulder Creek
- Prairie Farms
- Fairfield
- Lakeshore
- Forest View
- Mill Creek
- Woodland Hills
- Lone Elm corridor
And the towns around it
Overland Park
The biggest market in the county, and two completely different roofing problems: 1950s ranches in the north, 2000s two-stories south of 135th.
Lenexa
City Center, Falcon Valley, Canyon Farms and the older streets off Santa Fe Trail Drive.
Shawnee
Clear Creek, Bradshaw Farms and the mature-tree streets around Shawnee Mission Park.
Gardner & Edgerton
Fast-growing, wide open to the wind, and right beside the intermodal.
Spring Hill
New subdivisions on exposed ground at the south edge of the county.
De Soto
River-bluff town in the middle of the biggest industrial build in Kansas history.
Leawood & Prairie Village
Older, expensive housing stock with slate, tile, cedar and complicated rooflines.
East Olathe & Old Town
The courthouse grid, Havencroft, Brougham, Black Bob and Indian Creek: century-old houses and low-pitch 1970s ranches on their fifth roof.
West Olathe
Cedar Creek, Stonebridge, Prairie Farms and Boulder Creek: steep 1990s–2000s roofs that fail at the valleys and crickets first.
Mission, Merriam & Roeland Park
Northeast Johnson County's 1940s–60s bungalows and ranches — layer counts, board decking, real chimney flashing.
Kansas City, Kansas
Wyandotte County across the line: Piper and the Legends' new roofs, the century-old houses of the eastern neighborhoods.
Lawrence
Thirty miles west on K-10: Old West Lawrence's historic roofs, the KU rentals and the west-side subdivisions on open ground.
Ottawa
Franklin County's seat down I-35: a historic downtown, 1960s–80s neighborhoods and farm metal on the prairie.
Belton, Raymore & Grandview
Across the state line in Cass and Jackson Counties: 1990s–2010s subdivisions on the same hail track, Missouri claim rules.