Roofing and chimney work in Chatham
Chatham Borough is a compact, walkable town along the Passaic River, which forms its boundary with Union County. Its residential streets are lined with early-20th-century colonials, along with Victorians, Tudors and capes, nearly all under a heavy canopy of mature trees. Main Street has two- and three-story commercial buildings with flat roofs, and the borough is small enough that most homes share a similar age and character.
Asset Roofing & Chimney serves Chatham Borough with roof repair, roof replacement and chimney repair. We are based in Cliffside Park in Bergen County and work throughout North New Jersey. Estimates are free, and we are licensed and insured for residential and commercial work.
Housing in Chatham
Chatham Borough's housing is predominantly early-1900s through 1930s single-family construction: center-hall colonials, Dutch colonials with gambrel roofs, foursquares and Tudors, with later capes and split-levels on some streets. Roofs are mostly asphalt shingle today, with slate still on some older homes. Nearly every house has a brick chimney, and many have two. The downtown has flat-roofed commercial buildings.
Weather and exposure
Chatham's mature street trees and backyard oaks and maples drop heavy leaf and branch loads onto roofs and keep many of them shaded. Winters are colder and snowier than the Bergen riverfront, with ice dams on homes with older attic insulation. The Passaic River lowlands add humidity, and summer thunderstorms and nor'easters bring wind-driven rain into dormers and chimney flashing.
