Roof Repair & Roofing in Newton, NJ

Newton, New Jersey is the Sussex County seat, with the county courthouse and the historic town center at its heart and U.S. 206 and Route 94 running through. Sussex County Community College is here as well. The streets around downtown include many older houses, and an old house has often been reroofed and added onto more than once.

On older Newton homes, leaks tend to start at the details rather than the open field of shingles: around chimneys, dormers, skylights and the joints where a porch or addition meets the main roof. If you are pricing a replacement, ask the roofer whether an old layer is still underneath, whether the estimate includes tearing it off and checking the decking, and whether the work needs a permit.

Newton is cooler and snowier than most of New Jersey, and that shows up in roofing calls. Ice dams form along the eaves when snow melts over a warm attic and refreezes at the cold edge, pushing water back under the shingles. If you see icicles and a damp ceiling near an outside wall, call, and leave the ice alone until a roofer can look at it.