Watchung Roofing

Roofing across north and central New Jersey

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A roof here rarely gives out in the field. It gives out where the water is told to leave. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field — the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1 — ridge caps 1 Ridge caps — thin, exposed, first to lift Point 2 — the field of the roof 2 The field — shingle, one layer or two Point 3 — valleys 3 Leaf load mats where two slopes drain as one Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — old masonry, and the wall an attached house shares Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — where the porch roof meets the wall

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — the wall a split-level roof stops against, a dormer cheek, a skylight head, the open edge at the eave. And in this climate it fails on a schedule: water that melts and refreezes dozens of times a season works on every seam it can find. The first useful question about a leak here is not what the shingles look like, but what they are running into.

The work

Ten cities, nine counties

Ten cities from the Bergen County line to the bay — the post-war ranches and split-levels that fill Paramus and Edison, the pre-war blocks of Hackensack and Westfield, the two- and three-family houses of Newark, and the flat row-house roofs of Jersey City.