Roofing Contractor in Pleasantville, NJ

Older roofs that have been repaired before

A great deal of the residential stock here has had roof work done at some point, and not all of it well. The recurring pattern we find is sealant used where flashing should have been: roof cement smeared over a chimney junction, a pipe boot patched rather than replaced, or a valley caulked instead of re-formed. Those repairs hold for a few years and then fail, usually worse than the original defect.

• Roof cement over flashing that needed replacing
• Multiple layers of shingles hiding decking condition
• Pipe boots repeatedly patched rather than renewed
• Previous repairs concentrated around a single recurring leak

Two- and three-family buildings

Multi-family stock brings practical complications that a single-family house does not. Attic access may be limited or shared, the party wall junction between attached units is a common leak path, and a leak reported by one tenant may originate above another unit entirely. Diagnosis needs to start at the roof rather than at whichever ceiling is staining.

Commercial and low-slope along the corridors

Retail units, service buildings and mixed-use property on US 40, US 322 and US 9 almost all carry low-slope roofs. They fail at seams, terminations, penetrations and drains — and on occupied commercial buildings, an interior water event costs far more than the repair would have.

Exposure across the meadows

Pleasantville faces the open tidal meadows to the east, so wind off the bay reaches the city with little to slow it. It is less exposed than the island municipalities and more exposed than the wooded interior — enough that wind damage on eastern elevations is a routine finding after a strong nor'easter.