Roofing and chimney work in Bayonne
Bayonne occupies a peninsula between Newark Bay and New York Bay at the southern end of Hudson County, which means wind comes at its roofs from more than one direction. The housing is largely pre-war: two-family frame houses, brick and frame rowhouses, and small apartment buildings, mostly with flat or low-slope roofs, laid out on a grid of long avenues and numbered streets. Some blocks have pitched shingle fronts or full shingle roofs on detached houses.
Asset Roofing & Chimney repairs and replaces flat and shingle roofs across Bayonne, installs skylights and roof hatches, and repairs, relines and rebuilds brick chimneys. We are based in Cliffside Park in Bergen County and serve all of Hudson County, including Bayonne at its southern end. We are licensed and insured, and estimates are free.
Housing in Bayonne
Bayonne's housing is mostly pre-war two-family frame houses, brick and frame rowhouses and small apartment buildings on narrow lots, many attached or closely spaced, with flat or low-slope roofs behind front parapets or shallow pitched fronts. Detached houses with full pitched shingle roofs appear on some blocks. Nearly every older building has a brick chimney, often now venting a gas boiler or water heater.
Weather and exposure
Bayonne is surrounded by water on three sides, and wind off Newark Bay and New York Bay reaches roofs with little to slow it. Nor'easters and coastal storms drive rain against parapets, coping and chimneys and lift loose membrane edges. Flat roofs pond when scuppers clog, and salt air accelerates corrosion of metal flashing, coping and caps. Winter freeze-thaw opens joints in masonry.
