Charles River Roofing

Roofing across Greater Boston

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A roof here rarely gives out in the field. It gives out where the water is told to leave. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field — the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1 — ridge caps 1 Ridge caps — thin, exposed, first to lift Point 2 — the field of the roof 2 The field — slate or shingle, aging Point 3 — valleys 3 Leaf load mats where two slopes drain as one Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — old masonry, and the wall an attached house shares Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — where the porch roof meets the wall

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — a wall, a chimney, a vent, another roof plane, or the open edge at the eave. That is why the first useful question about any leak is not what the shingles look like, but what is nearby.

The work

Eleven towns, two river banks

Twelve cities across the crown — from the mill blocks of the Merrimack valley to the three-decker streets of Malden and Brockton and the salt air of Revere and Lynn, all of them working through housing built between 1880 and 1930.