Metacomet Roofing

Roofing across central Connecticut

A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers across central Connecticut. What follows is what snow and its melting do to a roof here, and what to settle before the work is booked.

Snow does not test a roof evenly. It leans hardest on the eave, the valley and the chimney. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field. The other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1: ridge caps 1 Ridge caps: thin, exposed, first to lift Point 2: the field of the roof 2 The field, one layer or two Point 3: valleys 3 Valleys: leaves, then snow on top Point 4: flashing 4 Flashing at chimney and saddle Point 5: vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6: eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves, where the porch roof meets the wall
  1. 1 Ridge caps. Thin, exposed, and worked loose by a winter of freezing and thawing.
  2. 2 The field. One layer or two, and the answer changes what a tear-off costs.
  3. 3 Valleys. Leaves mat where two slopes drain as one, and snow sits on top of them.
  4. 4 Flashing. Old masonry chimneys, and the saddle behind them that should shed snow.
  5. 5 The vent boot. A collar that goes brittle in the cold and splits without warning.
  6. 6 Eaves and ice dams. Where escaping attic heat melts snow that refreezes at the edge.

Weeks of load on old framing

Snow does not melt and go here, it sits, and it sits on rafters cut long before anyone specified a load. What happens at the eaves and behind the chimney over those weeks decides how the roof comes out of March.

The work

Twelve towns, three basins

Twelve cities across three basins: the Hartford suburbs, the shoreline towns below New Haven, and the brass-city hills around Waterbury. Some of the oldest housing in the country, under some of the longest-lying snow.