Nobody should sellyou a roof theyhaven't walked.
Slate and copper · Locust Valley · 4.9 · 63 reviews
What we do
Slate, copper, and the flashing where most leaks actually start.
- Slate roofs
New courses, and repairs to roofs that have another twenty years in them if the right forty slates are replaced.
- Copper work
Valleys, gutters, standing seam and flashing, formed on the roof rather than ordered by the foot.
- Leaks
Found first, quoted second. A leak that shows up over the kitchen usually starts somewhere else entirely.
- Old houses
Rooflines with dormers, valleys and turrets, where a rectangle of shingles was never the answer.
The first visit
We go up before we say a number.
You should know what is wrong with your roof whether or not you hire us.
We walk it
On the roof, not from the driveway with binoculars. Ladders, and about an hour.
You see what we saw
Photographs of the actual slates and the actual flashing, and what each one means.
Then the number
Written down, itemised, and it holds. If the answer is "not yet", we say that instead.
Roofs with more than four corners.
Gables, dormers, valleys, a turret if the house has one. The complicated part of an old roof is never the field — it is every place two planes meet, and that is the part a crew who only does asphalt will guess at.
How a slate roof goes on
- Structure and deckChecked before anything covers it.
- UnderlaymentThe second line of defence, not the first.
- Eight courses upLaid from the eave, each lapping the one below.
- Copper lastChimney flashing, rake, ridge and gutter.
What customers say
He went up, came down, and told me I had four or five years left and to call him then. Nobody else did that.
A homeowner
The copper work is the reason we hired them and the reason the neighbours asked who did it.
A homeowner
Three companies said tear it all off. Rook & Vane replaced about forty slates and the leak stopped.
A homeowner