Roofing & Waterproofing in Newmarket

Downtown and along Main Street South, the work is mostly low-slope commercial roofing plus the steeper, older roofs on the houses behind the shops, where chimney flashing and board decking set the scope. The established streets of Huron Heights, Armitage and Summerhill Estates mix second-cycle reroofs with first replacements, depending on the decade each street went up. Glenway Estates brings the low ranch rooflines that suffer most from ice at the eaves.

Stonehaven is at its first-replacement stage, and the newer houses near Bathurst Street and Davis Drive bring leaks where the question is how a detail was built rather than how old it is. Knowing which of those an address falls into tells us a good deal before we arrive, but we still confirm it on the roof.

A new roof is only as good as what goes under it, which is why we price a Newmarket replacement after counting the layers already on the roof and looking at the deck from the attic. Once the old covering is off, soft or delaminated sheathing is replaced, ice and water membrane goes along the eaves and into the valleys, flashings are renewed rather than reused, and intake and exhaust venting is balanced so the attic stays cold enough to keep ice dams from forming. The estimate lists each step, and the warranty is written for the system actually installed.

Metal is the other option many owners here ask about. Standing seam sheds the town's heavier snow rather than holding it, which helps on low porch roofs and additions, but that snow has to land somewhere, so the estimate shows where snow guards or a change of layout are needed over doors, walkways and driveways.

Three quotes for the same Newmarket roof can describe three different jobs, so compare what each contractor actually saw. A useful quote names the cause of the leak or the reason for replacement, shows it in dated photos, gives a fixed price, and states the warranty on the specific system being installed. A figure produced over the phone, or from the driveway, skips the attic, the deck and the flashings, and on a Main Street building or an original 1990s roof that is where the real cost sits. We have been doing this since 1999, and we would rather lose a job to a lower number than win it with a guess.