Half the houses here sit closer to the kerb than a tear-off normally wants. Replacement, repair, siding and gutters planned so the skip, the ladders and the tarps all fit on your own frontage.
The certification is about conduct on a site rather than about shingles: anchors, edge protection and ladder footing before anybody climbs. On a borough lot with a neighbour's path four feet from the eaves, that matters to more people than just us.
An accreditation that exists so a homeowner has somewhere to go that is not us. It is listed publicly and it can be looked up in a minute, which is rather the point of mentioning it.
The same people tear off, deck, dry in and sweep the garden. Nothing is handed to a second outfit halfway through the week.
Most of the borough went up between the fifties and the seventies, so the same handful of problems come round again: a cape that has had one layover too many, a valley that was never properly lined, a gutter run that gave up before the roof did.
A full tear-off planned around the frontage first, so four tons of old covering leaves the street without closing it.
Read the page →Local repairs done properly, with a straight answer about whether the roof is worth repairing at all.
Read the page →Tracing a leak back to where the water actually enters, which is rarely above the stain.
Read the page →A documented look after a blow, with the damage photographed in a form that is actually usable.
Read the page →An hour above the deck and below it, ending in a plain written verdict on the covering and its remaining years.
Read the page →Walls and trim fitted by the people who did the covering above them, which is how the flashing between the two ends up right.
Read the page →The drainage sized and hung for the roof above it, and discharged far enough from the house to matter.
Read the page →Where the skip stands, where the ladders foot, which side the tarps run down and whose frontage the van blocks. On a lot this width those answers change the price and the timetable, so they get settled at the estimate rather than on the first morning.
Fall protection goes up on a single-storey cape the same way it goes up on a three-storey colonial. It is the part of the job a homeowner never sees and the part that decides whether the week ends quietly.
Accreditation is not a review and it is not a rating. It is a public record that this business can be complained about to somebody other than itself, which is worth more than a testimonial.
Squares, tear-off layers, decking allowance, flashings, drip edge, disposal and labour, each on its own line. You keep the sheet whether or not the work goes ahead, and it is specific enough to hold another quote up against.
Rough age of the covering, how many storeys, and whether there is anywhere on the property a skip could stand. Three answers and the visit can be booked properly.
On the roof where it is safe to be, under the deck where there is access, and a walk round the frontage to work out how the materials will get in and the old ones will get out.
Line by line, with the access and disposal arrangements written into it rather than buried in a single figure. No charge and nothing owed.
Skip positioned, neighbouring paths and plantings covered, and a note through the doors either side so nobody is surprised by a lorry at first light.
Strip, inspect the decking, replace what is soft, dry in, flash and cover. Anything the tear-off uncovers is photographed and priced before it is closed up.
Magnet over the drive, the lawn and the kerb line, both neighbours' frontages included, and the skip gone the same week.
A single-storey cape or ranch is usually one full day, occasionally two. A larger colonial with dormers and a few valleys runs to two or three. Most of what stretches a job past that is decking found soft once the old covering is off.
Sometimes on the drive end-on, sometimes on the kerb with a borough permit, and occasionally there is no room at all and the material leaves by trailer in loads across the day. This is settled at the estimate, because the answer changes what the job costs.
It is a planning problem rather than a roofing one. Their path and plantings get boarded and sheeted, and the tear-off is worked away from the boundary rather than towards it. We put a note through their door before the first morning.
Count the layers first. One layer with local damage is usually worth repairing. Two layers is almost always a strip, because nothing new should go on top of them and patching a second layer buys very little time.
Squares, how many layers come off, a named allowance for replacement decking, flashings, drip edge, underlayment, ridge, disposal and labour. The access arrangements appear on it too.
They come off for the drip edge to go in properly. Whether they go back on is a separate line on the estimate — a sound aluminium run is worth rehanging, a run that has been patched three times is not.
Nothing is stripped wider than can be dried in the same day. If the forecast turns, the open section is felted and sealed before the crew leaves rather than tarped and hoped over.
An hour on the roof and under it, then an itemised sheet that is yours to keep either way.
The people who measure your roof are the people who strip it. That is less a philosophy than a consequence of the size of the outfit, and it is why the estimate can commit to how the week will run.
Gibbsboro is barely two square miles, so the van is rarely more than ten minutes from a job. The surrounding towns share the same housing age and much the same lot widths.
Measured, itemised and written down, with the skip and the access already worked out.
