Roof Repair for Bernards homes and buildings
Bernards' larger homes from the 1980s through the 2000s have the kind of roofs that leak at intersections rather than in the open field: several gables meeting in long valleys, dormers with sidewall flashing, two-story walls rising above garage and porch roofs, and skylights over great rooms and stairways. When those houses sit under mature trees, debris packs the valleys and slows drainage, and the shaded slopes grow moss and stay wet.
The older homes in Basking Ridge and Liberty Corner have their own set of problems, typically at chimney flashing, porch-roof connections and aged valley metal. Corporate and office buildings near the interstates have large membrane roofs where drains and rooftop equipment curbs are the usual leak points. Asset Roofing & Chimney repairs all of these.
Bernards housing
Most of Bernards' housing dates from the 1960s through the 2000s: center-hall colonials, split-levels and contemporaries from the earlier decades, and large two-story homes with complex rooflines, multiple gables and masonry or prefabricated fireplaces from the 1980s onward. Townhouse and condominium communities are common, including part of a large planned development shared with Bedminster. The older village areas of Basking Ridge and Liberty Corner hold 1800s and early-1900s homes. Corporate campuses near the interstates carry large flat and low-slope roofs.
Weather & exposure
Bernards is heavily wooded, and mature oaks and other hardwoods hang over many lots, dropping leaves, branches and acorns into valleys and gutters and keeping north-facing slopes damp. The eastern side of the township borders wetlands along the Passaic River and the Great Swamp area, where humidity and fog are common. Winters are colder than the eastern part of the state, with ice dams on homes with older insulation and freeze-thaw wear on chimneys.
Repair or replace? What we tell Bernards homeowners
On a larger Bernards home we inspect valleys, sidewalls, skylights and chimney flashing above any leak, because the cause is almost always a junction. Repairs include new step flashing and kick-outs, rebuilt valleys with metal or properly woven shingles over ice-and-water membrane, replacement pipe boots and, where a skylight is old or fogged, replacement rather than resealing.
If the roof is older and the shingles have lost flexibility or granules across the roof, we tell you that a repair will be a short-term measure and discuss replacement timing. For commercial roofs we walk the drains, seams and curbs, document what we find and provide a written scope for the property manager.
