A roofing contractor in Columbia County

Chatham is rural in a way most of our service area is not, and roofing follows the buildings.

Around the village there are older homes with the pitches and detailing of their period. Outside it there are farmhouses, and with farmhouses come barns, equipment sheds, garages and outbuildings, each with a roof of its own and each with a different sensible answer.

That changes how a job gets planned. A property with four roofs is a different conversation from a property with one, and doing them in the right order usually saves money.

What we do most around Chatham

• Farmhouse roof replacements, generally with architectural shingles
• Metal roofing on barns and outbuildings
• Village home repairs and replacements in Chatham and Old Chatham
• Chimney and wall flashing on older properties
• Snow-related repairs at eaves and valleys
• Gutter work on houses under heavy tree cover

Metal on agricultural buildings

For a barn or a large shed, metal panels over a simple span are hard to beat. They go up fast, they shed snow, and they last.

The trade-off is the fasteners. Exposed fastener panels screw through the face of the panel, and every one of those screws has a rubber washer that ages. After enough winters they need attention, and a barn roof that is otherwise sound can start leaking at the fastener line. That is maintenance rather than failure, and it is worth budgeting for.

Standing seam avoids that by concealing the fixings, at a higher initial cost. On a house it is often worth it. On a hay barn it usually is not.

Snow and rural exposure

Properties out here are frequently more exposed than a house on a village street, with open ground and no windbreak. Snow drifts against walls and into valleys, and it loads unevenly.

The practical consequences are at the eaves and in the valleys, which is where we look first after a hard winter. See roof inspection and maintenance.

Planning work on a rural property

Properties out here often need more than one roof done, and the order matters. Doing the house and the barn in the same visit costs less than two separate mobilisations, and it means one set of decisions about material and colour rather than two a few years apart.

We would rather quote the whole property and let you decide what to do now and what to defer, than price only what you asked about and leave you to discover the rest later. Tell us what buildings are on the site and we will look at all of them.

Across the area

We cover the Village of Chatham, Old Chatham, Ghent, Canaan and Chatham Center.

Neighborhoods we cover

• Village of Chatham
• Old Chatham
• Ghent
• Canaan
• Chatham Center