Low-slope work on rear extensions, porches and dormers.
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Most flat roofs on these houses are not the main roof. They are the back extension, the porch, or a dormer top -- added later, often to a shallower fall than the original builder would have used, and tied into a pitched roof that was never designed to meet one.
Ponding is the symptom people notice. The cause is usually the outlet, the fall, or a lap that has lifted at an upstand.
The post-war additions used shallower pitches than the pre-war houses beside them. A shallow pitch is far less forgiving of a lifted lap or a blocked outlet, so two houses on the same street can need quite different work.
All areas coveredDescribe what you are seeing. Most jobs are diagnosed from a short conversation and a photograph, before anyone travels.
A full walk of the roof and the attic space together, with every slope photographed before anything is moved.
A written quote against a written scope that names the detail that failed, so nothing is added later without your say-so.
The area is left clean, nails swept, and you get the before-and-after set for your records.
Tracing the entry point rather than patching the stain.
Tear-off, deck inspection, and a system specified for the pitch.
Step and counter-flashing rebuilt into the mortar course.
Documented assessment after a nor'easter or a tropical remnant.
7,667 housing units, 67.4% of them detached single-family, in Tudor, Colonial and Cape Cod styles.
Detached Colonials, Tudors and Capes alongside brick two-family houses, on lots with driveways and porches.
Dutch Colonial and Tudor houses, many still well kept.
Three- to five-bedroom homes with an unusually high share of row and attached houses -- higher than almost any neighborhood in the country.
Predominantly low-rise residential, like the rest of Community Board 13.
Older Cape Cods and ranch-style houses alongside newer traditional builds.
One- and two-family houses on their own lots, in every style the period produced.
Active leaks are treated as same-day where daylight and weather allow. Everything else is normally within the week.
Water runs along battens and rafters before it shows. The entry point is usually uphill of the stain and often several feet away, which is why a survey covers the attic as well as the roof.
Diagnosis yes, most permanent repairs no. A temporary cover goes on first and the permanent fix follows.
Yes, and it is written down. Nothing is charged before the scope is agreed.
Describe what you are seeing and roughly when it started.