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Roofing Projects In Watertown: Every One With Its Town, Its Date And What Made It Tricky

Roofing projects in Watertown and the towns around it: every photograph is a job we did, in a town we named, with its date and what made it tricky — tear-offs on 1960s ranches, storm replacements, steep cut-up rooflines near the square and on the lakes, garages and pole barns.

Every photograph on this page is a job we did, in a town we named. That sounds like a low bar until you compare it with how much roofing photography on the internet came out of a stock library.

Most of what you see here is within about twenty-five miles of Watertown — tear-offs on 1960s ranches, storm repairs after the hail comes through, and the occasional job that is genuinely interesting, like a church steeple or an octagonal house. Each project carries its town, so the service area pages can show the work done there.

How To Judge Roofing Work From A Photograph

Two things, if you are comparing contractors. First, whether the ridge line is straight and the courses are even — that is workmanship, and it is visible from the street for the next twenty years. Second, what the site looks like: whether the beds are tarped, whether there is plywood where material is being dropped, and whether the driveway is clear.

The second one is the better predictor. A crew that respects your landscaping on day one is a crew that flashed your chimney properly on day two. The things you cannot see in a photograph — the ice barrier at the eave, the six nails per shingle, the intake at the soffit — are what the warranty actually rests on, and what the reviews tend to mention five winters later.