Roofing Contractor in Buena Borough, NJ

Agricultural buildings and metal roofs

On a working agricultural property the house is often the newest roof and the least of the concerns. Barns, stores and processing buildings carry large exposed-fastener metal roofs whose weakness is the fixings themselves.

• Screws backing out as panels expand and contract with temperature
• Rubber washers perishing under UV exposure, so each fixing weeps
• Panel end-laps opening where sealant has aged
• Corrosion starting at cut edges and around penetrations
• Large uninterrupted roof areas shedding a lot of water at once

Open farmland wind

Unlike the wooded Pinelands townships, agricultural land is open. Fields give wind a clear run, and buildings standing alone in open ground — particularly tall barns and stores — take loading that a house in a wooded street does not. On large metal roofs, wind gets under a loose panel edge and works it.

Corridor commercial on US 40

The Harding Highway carries service, retail and light industrial buildings, generally with low-slope roofs. The usual low-slope concerns apply: seams, terminations, penetrations and drainage rather than the field of the roof.

Freeze-thaw on residential roofs

An inland western location gets the county's colder winters. Where attic ventilation is compromised, ice backing up at the eaves is a recurring winter problem, and the answer is the ventilation path and eaves membrane rather than the covering.