Sooner or later a roof stops rewarding the next repair and starts simply burning money to delay what is coming, and once a Summit, NJ home reaches that line, the honest move is to replace the roof outright. Royal Roof Solutions does that the way it ought to be done. We strip the old roof to the bare deck, look hard at the sheathing underneath and rebuild any board that has gone soft, lay fresh underlayment and ice-and-water membrane through the eaves and valleys, set new metal at every wall and penetration, balance the attic airflow, and finish with the shingle or panel you chose, all of it installed to the line the manufacturer requires.
- Stripped to bare deck, no shingles laid over old ones
- Sheathing opened up and rebuilt wherever it has softened
- Fresh underlayment, eave-and-valley membrane, and new metal throughout
- Attic airflow balanced against summer heat and January ice
- Permit filed and the finished work signed off to code
- Yard run with a magnet and a written workmanship guarantee
Knowing when a Summit roof has earned its retirement
Roofs almost never quit in a single dramatic moment. They give way slowly, one sticky August and one freeze-thaw February at a time, and you read it in the pattern rather than in any one spot. Shingles begin to curl and claw across whole slopes at once, the gritty granules that protect them wash down into the gutters in quantity, and the drips start showing up in two or three rooms instead of one. Once the trouble is spread out like that, you have moved past the territory where patching helps. Sinking repair after repair into a roof in that condition is money handed to the next storm, since the following leak is never more than a gusty night away.
A fair share of the Summit roofs we tear off were never wrecked by weather at all. They just ran out the clock. A lot of this town's housing goes back generations, and an asphalt roof that has carried a Hilltop or Northside home through two decades and more of New Jersey winters has done its tour. Sitting up on the ridge where the wind leans harder, and on the older homes whose steep, cut-up rooflines pack in extra seams and valleys to fail, roofs around here tend to wear out a little ahead of schedule, so a planned replacement turns up again and again on the older streets off Springfield Avenue.
The way our Summit crew rebuilds a roof
We tear the old roof off rather than nailing a new layer over it. A second layer hides everything happening on the deck below, loads weight onto framing that was never sized for it, and shortens the life of the shingles you just paid for, so the roof comes off to the wood every time without exception. Only with the deck bare can we actually read the sheathing, find the rot and the spongy panels, and swap them out before a single new course goes on. That is precisely the step the bargain outfits leave out, and it is the step that settles whether your roof lasts its full span or fails early.
With sound wood underneath, we build the assembly back the right way. Down goes the underlayment, then the self-sealing membrane along the eaves and through the valleys where Summit's ice dams concentrate their damage, then new flashing at every chimney, wall, and vent, a tidy drip edge, and finally the roofing itself, be it an architectural asphalt shingle, a standing-seam metal panel, or another system you settled on. While the roof is open we also correct the ventilation, because the finest shingles in the world will cook off early over a stifled, superheated attic in July and feed dam after dam at the eaves come winter.
Living through the job, start to finish
A re-roof is a sizable undertaking, and one run well never leaves you feeling adrift. Before the first shingle is pried loose we shield the plantings and the ground around the house, we keep the work zone tidy from morning to evening through the job, and at the close we drag a magnet across the lawn, the beds, and the driveway so you are not finding stray nails with your shoe months later. The work gets photographed as it goes, and you get a real walk of the finished roof at the end, not a couple of mumbled words tossed back from the truck door.
The number is locked in long before the tear-off begins. Your written estimate spells out the scope and the materials line by line, so nothing extra appears on the bill once the crew is rolling. Should the tear-off reveal real deck damage that no inspection from the surface could have caught, we photograph it, show it to you, and talk through the added work together before we touch it, never quietly afterward. The inspection costs nothing, the quoted figure is the figure you pay, and our own labor guarantee sits on top of the coverage that comes with your materials.
The roof this service belongs to
A roof is a system, so roof replacement rarely stands alone, it connects to roof repair, roof inspection, gutter replacement, hail damage repair, roof installation, and our crew handles all of it under one roof. We bring the same service to Roof Replacement in New Providence, Roof Replacement in Berkeley Heights, Springfield roof replacement, Roof Replacement in Chatham and everywhere else across the Summit area.
If you searched for a local roofing crew near you, you have reached a local crew, call 908-291-1402 any time. For background, read 7 Signs Your Summit, NJ Roof Is Failing (And When to Replace It) on our blog, or head back to our Summit home page to see everything we do.