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.

The roof pays for the arrangement

Old housing, much of it divided into flats, warmed by somebody who is not the owner. Heat rises through a ceiling that was never insulated for it, and the roof above takes the difference every winter.

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.