Exterior Contractor Serving Allendale, NJ

A 1990s re-roof on an Allendale colonial is right at the edge of its expected service life in NJ’s climate. The honest way to find out is a hands-on inspection — we walk every slope, check the granule load in the gutters, probe every flashing, and look at the deck from the attic if accessible. Shingles can look passable from the ground while the valleys and step flashings are in the early stages of failure. We give you a written condition report covering every plane before recommending any scope.

South-side buckling on aluminum siding is almost always thermal expansion — the panels have been expanding and contracting for decades and the locking channels are compromised. It can also indicate moisture infiltration behind the panel that is affecting the substrate. We open a section and assess the sheathing condition before recommending a scope. If the wood underneath is sound, it’s a clean re-side with James Hardie fiber cement or LP SmartSide. If there’s sheathing damage, that gets addressed before any new material goes on.

Clean gutters that still overflow are undersized for the roof area they drain. This is the standard situation on Allendale’s 1950s–70s colonials — original 4-inch or 5-inch gutters that handle light rain but overflow during any real storm event. Cleaning doesn’t fix a capacity problem. We measure your roof area and pitch, calculate the correct gutter size, and fabricate seamless aluminum on-site. Before the new gutters go up, we probe the fascia behind the gutter lip — years of overflow means the boards there are usually compromised.

First-generation vinyl replacement windows from the 1990s have a lifespan of roughly 25–30 years in NJ’s climate, and most of them are at or past that point now. The signs: fogging between panes that doesn’t clear, drafts around the frame that weren’t there before, difficulty operating the sash, and condensation on the interior glass in winter. We measure every opening individually and give you options from Andersen, Marvin, and Pella based on what each frame actually needs.

A soft threshold on an Allendale entry door almost always means the sill has rotted from water sitting under the door every time it rains. We assess the full frame condition first — if it’s just the threshold and weatherstripping, a slab replacement with a new threshold assembly makes sense. If the sill corners are soft and the rot has moved into the frame, the prehung unit and frame have to come out together. Every job includes a proper sill pan so the problem doesn’t repeat.

If your painter is finding soft wood, the rot is already past the surface. Trim that probes soft is absorbing moisture from a source — usually gutter overflow into the fascia, failed flashing at window heads, or missing drip edge at the rake. We find the moisture source first, then assess the full extent of the rot — because soft trim visible to the painter usually has a larger compromised area behind it that isn’t visible yet. We replace with Azek PVC that won’t rot on the same timeline and address the moisture source as part of the scope.