The township's colonials and Tudors have complicated rooflines: intersecting gables, dormers, valleys and sometimes a steep Tudor pitch that sheds water fast but concentrates it into a few valleys and flashing joints. Original metal valleys wear through, and step flashing at dormer sidewalls rusts out. These details fail long before the field shingles do, and repairing them properly extends the life of the whole roof.
Many Teaneck roofing calls turn out to be chimney flashing problems. The brick chimneys on these houses are often wide, sometimes without a saddle behind them, and the counterflashing has been caulked over for decades. We check the chimney on every roof inspection so we fix the actual source.
Repair or replace? What we tell Teaneck homeowners
If your Teaneck roof is leaking at a specific detail, such as a valley, dormer, chimney or eave, and the shingles elsewhere are still flexible with good granule coverage, repair that detail. These roofs often have many years left in the field shingles while the flashing details have failed. If shingles are brittle, curling or losing granules across the whole roof, a repair buys time but a replacement is coming, and we will say so.
After storm damage from fallen limbs, we photograph and document what happened to support an insurance claim if you choose to file one. Estimates are free.
