Pawtuxet Roofing

Roofing across Providence and Kent

A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers across Providence and Kent counties. What follows starts with the thing that makes roofs here different: a great many of them cover more than one household.

A roof here rarely gives out in the field. It gives out where the heat gets out. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field. The other five do most of the failing.
Rear ell Point 1: the ridge 1 Point 2: the field of the covering 2 Point 3: the valleys 3 Point 4: flashing at a shared wall 4 Point 5: a penetration 5 Point 6: the overhang 6
  1. 1 The ridge. One ridge over two households, and one of them pays to replace it.
  2. 2 The field. The part everyone looks at, and rarely the part that actually failed.
  3. 3 Valleys. Most of them were cut in later, when the house was divided into flats.
  4. 4 The chimney. Often two of them, and often neither one carries anything any more.
  5. 5 Penetrations. Two kitchens and two bathrooms mean twice the holes on the same roof.
  6. 6 The overhang. Where heat from a flat you do not control comes back down as ice.

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else. The wall a split-level roof stops against, a dormer cheek, a skylight head, the open edge at the eave. And in this state it fails on a calendar, and usually because of heat nobody billed for a season works on every seam it can find. The first useful question about a leak here is not what the shingles look like, but what they are running into.

The work

Eight markets, two counties

Eight markets across two counties: the mill streets of Pawtucket, the tight lots of Providence, the post-war neighbourhoods of Warwick and the colonial village of Wyomissing, and the subdivisions that filled Lower Macungie in a single decade. Different centuries, and roofs that fail in different places because of it.