The old covering off, all of it
Down to the boards, every layer, so the deck can actually be looked at. Laying new over old hides the one thing worth seeing and shortens the life of what goes on top of it.
Roof Replacement
Roof Replacement in Stratford, NJ
Strip to the boards, see what is under there in daylight, correct it, and build back up to a specification that is written down before anybody starts.
The number holds because the counts are real
A replacement price is arithmetic before it is anything else. Squares of covering, sheets of decking allowed for, feet of edge metal at eaves and rakes, the count of collars and vents, the skip, the permit. Measure those properly and a fixed number is easy to stand behind. Estimate them from the pavement and the only safe way to quote is a range wide enough to absorb being wrong, which is how homeowners end up paying the top of somebody's guess.
What a replacement here includes
The deck inspected in front of you
Soft, split or water-marked sheets are photographed and replaced at the rate already printed on your estimate. You see the boards before they disappear under felt.
Edge metal and a real starter course
Folded metal along eaves and rakes so water reaches the gutter rather than the fascia, and a purpose-made starter strip glued down beneath the first visible row rather than cut-up shingles pretending to be one.
Ventilation worked out, not copied
Intake low and exhaust high, in a ratio taken from the volume above the ceiling. Reproducing whatever was there before is not a calculation, and a covering over still air wears out from underneath.
Junctions remade in metal
Chimneys, walls, valleys and any plane that dies into brick get shaped metal laid in with the courses. Sealant across the top of an old piece is a decision to do the job again in three years.
The site put back
Skip away with the crew, magnet across drive, kerb and planting, gutters cleared of what the strip put into them, and photographs of every finished junction.
What is not in the number
Structural work to rafters or trusses, chimney masonry beyond the flashing that meets it, and anything inside the house. If a measure suggests one of those is likely, you are told before the estimate is written rather than after the roof is open. Decking beyond the allowance is not an exclusion but it is not guesswork either — it has a rate on the page and a photograph for every sheet.
Get it counted properly
A measure, then one page with every quantity on it and the exclusions printed underneath.