Roofing and chimney work in Dover
Dover is one of the most densely built places in western Morris County, a former iron and canal town on the Rockaway River with a traditional downtown along Blackwell Street and a train station on the NJ Transit Morristown Line. Its residential blocks are packed with late-1800s and early-1900s frame houses, two-family homes and small apartment buildings, often only a few feet apart, and the downtown is a row of attached brick commercial buildings with flat roofs.
Asset Roofing & Chimney provides roof repair, roof replacement and chimney repair throughout Dover, for owner-occupied homes, rental and multifamily properties, and commercial buildings. We are based in Cliffside Park in Bergen County and serve all of North New Jersey. Estimates are free, and we are licensed and insured.
Housing in Dover
Dover's housing stock is old and compact: late-19th and early-20th-century single-family and two-family frame houses on narrow lots, many with front porches, steep gable roofs and a brick chimney, plus small apartment buildings and mixed-use buildings with apartments over storefronts. Mid-century capes and ranches appear on the hillside streets toward the town's edges. Industrial and commercial buildings with low-slope roofs sit along the river and the rail line.
Weather and exposure
Dover lies in the Rockaway River valley with hills rising on either side, so it gets cold, snowy western Morris County winters and the moisture of a river town. Houses set close together shade one another and shed snow and water onto neighboring roofs and walkways. Flat roofs downtown deal with ponding and freeze-thaw at parapets, and summer storms bring short, heavy downpours that overwhelm small gutters on older houses.
