Roofing and chimney work in Newark
Newark is New Jersey's largest city and the Essex County seat, set on the west bank of the Passaic River near Newark Bay. Its building stock covers almost every type found in North Jersey: brick rowhouses and attached homes, two- and three-family frame houses on narrow lots, brick apartment buildings, mixed-use blocks with stores below and apartments above, churches, downtown towers, and warehouses and industrial buildings near Port Newark, the rail lines and the airport.
Asset Roofing & Chimney provides roof repair, roof replacement and chimney repair across Newark for owners of homes, multifamily buildings and commercial and industrial properties. Most Newark roofs are flat or low-slope, and flat roofing is a core part of our work alongside shingles and chimney masonry. We are licensed and insured, based in Cliffside Park in Bergen County, and estimates are free.
Housing in Newark
Much of Newark was built between the late 1800s and the mid-1900s. Neighborhoods such as the Ironbound are dense with attached houses and two- and three-family frame homes, many with a pitched front and a flat or low-slope rear roof. Brick apartment buildings, rowhouses and mixed-use buildings along the commercial avenues have flat roofs behind parapets, and older masonry chimneys serve boilers or sit unused. Downtown has larger commercial and institutional buildings, and the eastern side of the city holds large flat-roofed warehouses and industrial buildings.
Weather and exposure
Newark is low and largely flat, open to wind off Newark Bay and the Meadowlands on its eastern side. Tree canopy is thinner than in the suburbs, so roofs take full sun and heat, which ages membranes and asphalt faster. Flat roofs depend on drains and scuppers that clog with debris, and summer downpours test them hard. Freeze-thaw works on parapets, coping and old chimneys every winter, and nor'easters drive rain into walls and parapet joints.
