Roofing & Siding in Bernardsville NJ

The 1940s and 1950s houses below Olcott Avenue grow ice dams nearly every hard winter. Snow melts on the warm upper roof, refreezes at the cold eave, backs up under the shingles, and lands as a stain on the bedroom ceiling in February. We fix the damage, then find the cause, whether that is attic ventilation, an insulation gap, or a worn starter course at the edge.

The big Tudor and Colonial Revival houses carry tall masonry chimneys, and the flashing where the stack meets the roof is the first part to fail. Step flashing along sidewalls and chimney counterflashing that cracked decades ago let water track straight down inside the wall. On the older homes that worn tin is often buried under a layered roof, and that is exactly the seam we open first.

A lot of Bernardsville's mid-century roofs are on their second or third cycle, with a newer layer hiding an older one. Some still have good years left and are worth repairing, and some are too far gone for a patch to hold. We pull the photos and lay the repair number next to the replacement number, so you choose with both in front of you.

Sunrooms, rear porches, and flat-roofed additions on Bernardsville houses collect everything the steep slopes shed onto them. The pitched-to-flat transition is where these additions leak, usually because the original flashing there was weak, and standing water makes it worse. We rework those tie-ins and the membrane together so the addition stops being the weak point of the house.