Roof Replacement
For the roofs where the covering itself has gone, not just the detail around it.
Lawnside, New Jersey
Lawnside Roofing That Starts at the Edges
Working Lawnside and the boroughs beside it — Haddon Heights, Barrington, Magnolia and Somerdale — on repairs, replacements and the leaks that nobody else could find.
Book the free inspection — (856) 528-7670What we do
Seven things, and nothing we are not set up for
Residential roofs in one small corner of Camden County. That is the whole business.
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Roof Repair
Nearly every repair is detail work: a junction, a collar, a length of metal.
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Roof Leak Repair
We will put water on the roof until it leaks, rather than guess where it came in.
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Storm & Hail Damage
Wind takes the edges first, so that is where the damage is worth looking for.
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Roof Inspections
An hour on the house, and three lists at the end of it — only one of them priced.
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Gutters & Downspouts
Usually an arithmetic problem: too much roof feeding too few outlets.
The short version
A roof almost never fails in the middle
An open slope of shingle is the simplest thing on a house: one unbroken surface, well fastened, sending water downhill. Left alone it does that for decades.
What fails is every place that surface was interrupted. A chimney, a vent pipe, a skylight, a valley, the line where a lower roof dies into a wall, and the edges where wind can get a grip. Those are holes somebody made and then covered up, and the cover is only as good as whoever did it. It is why we start an inspection at the junctions rather than the middle, and why most of what we quote for is a few feet of metalwork rather than a new roof.
How we are different
What you get from us that you may not elsewhere
Four of them. None is a slogan; each one is something we give up in order to do.
The whole envelope, not one slope
Roof, junctions, edges, gutters and the loft underneath, because a wet wall is usually a roof fault and a roof fault is usually three feet from where you think it is.
A written estimate for the first list only
You get told what is failing now, what will want money later and what is simply old. The price covers the first of those three.
Leaks proved, not guessed
Where a leak is not obvious we put a hose on the roof and somebody in the loft and find it properly, instead of mending the nearest likely thing.
The smaller job stays on the table
If two days of detail work will carry you another decade, we say so, even though the replacement is the bigger invoice.
What happens
From the call to the written figure
You ring and describe it
Whatever you can see from the pavement is plenty. Nobody expects you to diagnose it first.
We come and look properly
An hour on the house — junctions, edges, valleys, penetrations and the loft. It costs nothing.
You get the three lists
Failing now, ageing, and fine. The middle list carries rough years so it can be budgeted.
A written estimate
Line by line against the first list only, with the decking rate shown in case we find bad boards.
The work, when you say so
Nothing is booked off the back of the visit. People take the lists away and ring months later.
Where we go
Lawnside and the boroughs around it
A small patch, deliberately. It means we can get back to a roof quickly when something wants a second look.
- Lawnside
- Haddon Heights
- Barrington
- Magnolia
- Somerdale
- Cherry Hill
- Audubon
- Mount Ephraim
- Haddonfield
Start with an hour on the house
Free, covers the whole envelope rather than one slope, and ends with a written estimate you are under no obligation to act on.
Book the inspection — (856) 528-7670Questions
What people ask before they book
Is the inspection really free?
Yes. You are charged nothing and committed to nothing afterwards. A number given without seeing a roof is a guess, and guesses only ever travel upward, so the visit suits us as much as it suits you.
Can you tell me a price over the phone?
Not an honest one. We can tell you the range a job like that usually falls in and whether it sounds like a repair or a replacement, which is normally what people actually want to know.
Do I need a new roof or a repair?
Three things decide it: whether the covering is still holding its granules, whether the mat underneath has gone hard, and how many times that slope has already been opened. Two out of three means replacement.
What happens if you find rotten boards?
You see the rate for decking on the estimate before we begin, and the sheets get counted with you beside us. You are charged for what came out and nothing more.
How long does a replacement take?
Two days on an ordinary house here, three where the roof is cut up with valleys or the decking turns out to be poor. Nothing is opened that cannot be closed the same evening.
Can you find a leak nobody else could?
Often, because we test with water rather than inspect and infer. One person in the loft, one with a hose, working up the slope a section at a time until the leak repeats.
Do you do the gutters as well?
Yes, and we treat the edge as roofing rather than as a bolt-on. Most complaints about guttering turn out to be about how much water one outlet is being asked to swallow.
Do I have to be home?
Worth being there for the inspection, since a good part of it happens in the loft. For the work itself it makes no difference; most people go out and come back to a finished roof.
About
A small crew working one small patch
The people who quote the job are the people who do it. That sounds unremarkable until you have had a roof sold by one person, subcontracted to another and defended by a third when something went wrong.
Next
An hour on your roof costs nothing
Ring and tell us what you can see from the pavement. You will end up holding three lists and a written figure before anyone asks you for a decision.
Book the free inspection — (856) 528-7670