Roofing and chimney work in Palisades Park
Palisades Park is a compact, densely built borough on the western side of the Palisades ridge, just inland from Fort Lee and Cliffside Park. Its housing has changed a great deal over the past few decades: many of the older single-family houses on its small lots have been replaced by newer two-family homes, so a single block can mix a 1920s frame house with a brick chimney and a recently built two-family with a low-slope roof and rooftop equipment. Broad Avenue, the borough's busy commercial street, is lined with storefront buildings under flat roofs.
Asset Roofing & Chimney is based next door in Cliffside Park, so Palisades Park is about as close as a job gets. We handle shingle and flat roofing on the borough's homes and two-families, flat-roof work on Broad Avenue's commercial buildings, and chimney inspection, repair and relining on the older houses that still have masonry chimneys. We are licensed and insured, and estimates are free.
Housing in Palisades Park
Palisades Park has small lots and a high share of two-family homes. The older housing stock includes pre-war and post-war frame and brick single-family houses with pitched shingle roofs and brick chimneys. A large number of newer two-family homes have replaced older houses in recent decades, many with flat or low-slope roofs, parapets, rooftop mechanical units and metal flues instead of masonry chimneys. Broad Avenue is lined with one- and two-story commercial and mixed-use buildings with flat roofs.
Weather and exposure
The borough sits on the inland slope of the Palisades ridge, with land falling west toward Overpeck Creek. It is a little more sheltered than the cliff-edge blocks of its eastern neighbours but still takes gusty northeast and northwest winds in storms. Flat roofs on tightly spaced buildings depend on drains and scuppers that clog easily, and freeze-thaw cycles work on the brick chimneys of the older houses.
