EDISON · MENLO PARK

Roofing in Menlo Park

An old roof, a second layer or an ice dam on a Menlo Park home? Repair or a new roof, one call.

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Repairs, replacements and new roofs
Edison & Middlesex County

Menlo Park in Four Lines

Built: best known for Thomas Edison's 1876 laboratory; mostly mid-century homes today, near the mall that opened in 1959 on Route 1
Typical house and roof: ranches, Cape Cods and split-levels, many with two shingle layers
Trees and exposure: mature trees on residential streets; open exposure near the highways
What usually fails first: ice dams at low-slope eaves, then shingles at the end of a second roof

Where Edison Built His Lab, and Everyone Else Built Ranches

Menlo Park is where Thomas Edison opened his laboratory in 1876, and the reason the whole township eventually took his name. Today it's mostly a neighborhood of mid-century homes near Route 1 and the Menlo Park Mall, which opened in 1959. Many of those houses are ranches with low-slope roofs and attics that were never well ventilated. Some have a second layer of shingles laid over the first sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. What you see on a cold week is icicles at the eaves and, sometimes, water coming in at the top of an outside wall. What it usually means is an ice dam: heat from the house melting snow that refreezes at the colder edge.

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A two-story colonial house with a dark gray standing seam metal roof among autumn trees

Roof Calls From Menlo Park

A ranch with two layers is due for a full tear-off when it's replaced. That's also the moment to fix the ventilation and add ice barrier at the eaves, so the next roof doesn't get the same ice dams.

What Menlo Park homeowners usually call about: leak and storm repair, a new shingle roof, a roof on an addition or garage, metal roofing, a flat section, or simply finding a roofer.