Roofers in Metuchen

The Brainy Borough's Older Roofs

Metuchen has called itself "the Brainy Borough" since the early twentieth century, when the railroad brought writers, artists and professors within reach of New York and Rutgers. A lot of the housing from that period is still standing: Victorians and early twentieth-century homes with steep roofs, dormers, turrets and chimneys. Those roofs are more complicated than a postwar ranch's, with more valleys, more flashing and sometimes slate. The borough was named a Great American Main Street in 2023, and its older streets are a big part of its character. What you see on an older Metuchen house is often a leak around a dormer or a chimney, or a slate that slid down into the gutter.

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Metuchen Roofs, Year Round

Winter brings ice dams on steep roofs with little ventilation. Fall leaves fill the valleys of complicated roofs. Summer storms test old flashing. On slate roofs, a single slipped slate is a repair; widespread failure of the nails holding them is a bigger decision.

On an older house, ask whether the roofer works on steep and complex roofs regularly. It's a different job from a low ranch.

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