Roofing and chimney work in Haledon
Haledon is a compact borough on the hillside just north of Paterson, with William Paterson University on its western edge. It is best known as home to the Botto House, now the American Labor Museum, where striking Paterson silk workers gathered during the 1913 strike. Its streets are lined with closely spaced older homes, two-families and small apartment buildings that grew up alongside Paterson's mills.
That density and age make Haledon a mix of pitched shingle roofs, low-slope multifamily roofs and plenty of old brick chimneys. Asset Roofing & Chimney serves Haledon from Cliffside Park in Bergen County. We repair and replace shingle and flat roofs, install skylights and roof hatches, and repair, reline and rebuild chimneys. We are licensed and insured, and estimates are free.
Housing in Haledon
Haledon's housing is older and fairly dense for a suburb: early twentieth century single-families and two-families on narrow lots, postwar capes and ranches, and garden apartments and small multifamily buildings, some with flat roofs. Rental housing is common given the university next door. Mixed-use buildings with flat roofs line the main commercial street, and most older homes have brick chimneys.
Weather and exposure
Haledon climbs from the Paterson side toward higher ground to the north and west, so homes on the upper streets take more wind than those below. Closely spaced houses mean debris from neighboring trees and roofs collects in shared gutters. Nor'easters bring wind-driven rain, summer storms bring heavy downpours that test flat-roof drainage, and freeze-thaw winters work on masonry and flashing.
