Roof Rejuvenation & Home Renovation in Bay Shore & Suffolk County, New York

Bay Shore and the towns around it were built out hard in the post-war decades. The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s together account for the largest share of the housing stock in the ZIP — capes, split-levels, hi-ranches and colonials that have now been through three or four roofs apiece, and about as many kitchens.

Then there's the second wave, and it's the one nobody talks about. A very large number of south shore roofs were replaced in the two or three years after Hurricane Sandy came through in October 2012. Those homeowners aren't thinking about their roof — it still feels new, because they remember paying for it. It's thirteen or fourteen years old now. That's the exact window where the shingle body is still sound, the deck is fine, and what's gone is the oil.

Add forty-six inches of rain a year, an 83-degree July, January nights in the low twenties, salt air off the bay and two to four nor'easters a winter, and you get roofs that look twenty years older than they are. Looking tired and being finished are two different things, and a free inspection is how you find out which one you've got. With a median home value around $525,000 in Bay Shore, it's worth the half hour.