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New Roof Installation, Roof Removal and Tear-Off Examples
Removed all previous roofing off of the entire house in Millstone township, New Jersey. We installed a new Owens Corning roof duration 50 year shingles. We also installed all new roof vents. We provide the longest guarantee of any roofer in New Jersey.
These two barns where a little over 100 years old. We removed the old cedar shake roofing. Installed new 5/8 cdx. An Owens Corning duration 50 year roof. New roof vents. Added collar ties to the rafters. Just needs a coat of paint now.
East Brunswick township “Historical Society” had us replace a roof on this landmark old farm. We removed old roofing. Replaced bad plywood sheathing. New roof vents. Installed a 50 year Owens Corning roof. Reinstalled old lightning rods. All finished in one day.
Roof Repair Examples
The Daycamp roof at Riva Avenue in East Brunswick was in real bad shape when I was called to fix it. As you can see by photos there was tons of rot. We had to rebuild rafters/ new plywood/ new fans and vents. A low pitch rubber glue down roof had to be weaved into a Dimensional roof. Not a job for your average inexperienced roofer.
While tearing off this roof we found 6 cracked rafters. We sistered in new 2×6’s to the old. We Installed 16 new CDX plywood. We worked around 6 old Velux skylights and installed an Owens Corning Duration 50 year roof, along with new seamless aluminum gutters. The work was completed in one day in East Brunswick on Yorktown road.
This house still had the original Yankee “Built in” gutters. These are always a problem causing leaks. You can see how we removed the old “BOX,” installed new 2×6 sister rafters, 3/4 inch CDX decking and 1×6 pine fascia. Then we covered it all with white aluminum to BLEND in the look of old with new. It took some time to find old used aluminum siding to match better with their old siding. Most companies would just have used new siding & it would never match shiny clean new next to old dull dirty. Last we installed modern .032 aluminum gutters and leaders screwed into the new plum fascia’s.
Slate Roof Examples
The first year John Asch, Jr. started roofing, I was contacted by an insurance company to do major roof repairs on a church roof in Hoboken, New Jersey. As you can see by the photos, we had to erect pipe scaffolding which had to be lag bolted temporarily into the stone structure. Once we were able to reach the roof tops, we spent approximately three months installing new copper ridge roll, repairing slates, sealing flashings, etc. This was our first slate roof repair and since that job, we have done hundreds of slate repairs.
The old original slate roof on this house on Mercer Street in North Plainfield was removed. We installed 3/4 inch cdx sheathing to tighten up the old tired rafters. New 11 x 21 inch blue/gray Vermont slates where installed using copper roof nails. New galvanized ridge roll. Roof vents where installed to remove unwanted heat and moisture out of the attic. This new slate roof should last about 80 years.
We removed the slate roof off of this 117 year old house on Lincoln Street in Highland Park, NJ. It was built with four areas of “curved” rafters at the bottom of the roof near the built in gutters. You can see one example of this in the first photo. They were totally rotted thru and we had to rebuild them. We then discovered a lot more rotted rafters and walls on the front lower porch. We sistered in new rafters, changed the angle of original rafters, new fascia, rakes, soffit and deck sheathing. We made everything strong. We then installated a new Owens Corning 50-year dimensional roof. The photos below of the before and after will explain better.
Skylight and Chimney Examples
Conklin United Church on Main Street, Pointing up in between all bricks on chimney.
This East Brunswick Doctors office had two large skylights, approximately 4 x 12 foot each. I was hired to remove the one leaky skylight. You can see by photos we had to add rafters held in place with metal joist hangers. We installed fiberglass and faced insulation. New 5/8 sheet rock was installed, spackled and taped. Two coats of primer were then applied. Now the project is ready for the final paint job. This work was done in a busy New Jersey doctor’s office with no problems to the staff or patients.
We installed a 50-year Owens Corning roof on this house in Spotswood, NJ. We also installed 12 Velux fixed skylights. The skylights all came with a 10 year labor and material guarantee. Not just a warranty, as everyone else gives.
Siding, Gutter and Soffit Examples
This homeowner wanted to keep the original look of the roof with a copper gutter & open rafters. We had to bend & solder copper from a new flat roll. It has to be extended up under the synthetic slates, so they had to be removed & reinstalled. If you look at the first photo you can see the “fancy” larger end rafter. That was rotted & we had to trace & cut a new piece. You can see the seam under the new paint where we had to splice it together. This is how gutter work is supposed to be done.
The wood work & gutter where in very bad shape. It was leaking into the building & birds where getting inside. We installed new pine fascia. Covered it with white aluminum trim coil then new .032 aluminum gutters & leaders.
We removed old cedar shake siding and installed new vinyl siding. We then trimmed out around windows & doors, installed new shutters and new aluminum gutters. New garage doors to come.
