Roofing and chimney work in Kearny
Kearny stretches from the Passaic River across to the Hackensack River, and its two halves could hardly be more different. The residential side, on higher ground along the Passaic, is a long grid of detached and semi-detached one- and two-family houses, many with steep pitched roofs, dormers and brick chimneys, with Kearny Avenue as its commercial spine. To the east and south, a large part of the town lies in the Meadowlands, where warehouses, truck terminals and industrial buildings sit under big flat roofs.
Asset Roofing & Chimney repairs and replaces shingle and flat roofs, installs skylights and roof hatches, and repairs, relines and rebuilds chimneys in Kearny, for homeowners and commercial owners alike. We are based in Cliffside Park in Bergen County and serve all of North Jersey. We are licensed and insured, and estimates are free.
Housing in Kearny
Compared with most of Hudson County, Kearny has a high share of detached houses. The residential neighborhoods are mostly early and mid-20th-century wood-frame one- and two-family homes with gabled or hipped shingle roofs, dormers and front porches, along with brick houses, some attached rows and small apartment buildings. Mixed-use buildings line Kearny Avenue. The Meadowlands section is dominated by warehouses, distribution and industrial buildings with large low-slope roofs.
Weather and exposure
Kearny's residential area sits on a rise above the Passaic River, while its eastern side opens onto the flat Meadowlands, where wind crosses miles of marsh with little to slow it. Pitched roofs facing that direction lose shingles in storms, and big industrial roofs see uplift at their edges. Winter snow and ice form ice dams on the eaves of older, poorly ventilated houses, and freeze-thaw cracks chimney crowns.
