Roof Replacement Syracuse

The New York State Department of State says the state does not license home improvement contractors. The Attorney General names the places that do run their own registers: New York City and Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties. Onondaga is not one of them and the county directory lists no consumer affairs office. So the checks that are left are real ones. Ask for the certificate of insurance and read the limits. General Business Law section 771-b sets a floor of one hundred thousand dollars per person and three hundred thousand per occurrence for bodily injury, fifty thousand for property damage, plus workers compensation. Then ask for the contract, because section 771-b says the insurer's name and the policy limits belong on it.

It depends entirely on which of the thirty five governments in this county your address sits in. The City of Syracuse lists Roof as a residential permit type with its own application. The Village of Liverpool requires a permit for a new roof covering. The Town of Cicero and the Village of Fayetteville both say no permit is needed for a re-roof provided no more than two layers will be covered. A village address never files with the town around it. The guide on permits sets out what each office published, with the source and the date it was checked.

Only sometimes, and it is the code that decides rather than the contractor. Section R908 of the Residential Code of New York State does not permit a new covering over the existing one where the roof already carries two or more applications of any type, where the existing covering is water soaked or too deteriorated to be an adequate base, or where it is slate, clay, cement or asbestos cement tile. Count the layers at a cut edge or at the eave before you take an overlay price. Two already up there means a tear-off is the only lawful answer.

Because that is where Syracuse breaks roofs. The city averages 123.8 inches of snow a year and crosses freezing in both directions on roughly 84 days, so meltwater from a warm upper slope refreezes over the cold overhang and backs standing water up under the covering. Section R905.1.2 of the Residential Code of New York State answers it with an ice barrier running from the lowest edge to a point not less than 24 inches inside the exterior wall line, and section R806 requires attic ventilation with at least one inch of clear space above the insulation at the eave. A quote that prices neither is priced short.

No, and no roofer in New York may. General Business Law section 771-b subdivision 8 states that a roofing contractor shall not perform the reporting, adjusting or negotiating of a claim. Subdivision 2 also bars any offer to pay or rebate part of an insurance deductible as an inducement to sell the work. What a contractor can do is document the condition of the roof and price the repair. If your insurer gives written notice that all or part of the claim is not covered, subdivision 3 lets you cancel the contract until midnight of the third business day after that notice, and subdivision 4 gives the contractor ten days to return your deposit.

We can tell you what drives the price on your street and what has to be in the scope, but the number that matters comes after someone has been on the roof. The median house in the City of Syracuse dates from 1948, the deck is often plank rather than plywood, and nobody knows what it is doing until the covering is off. So expect a written contract price with a stated allowance for deck repair, plus start and substantial completion dates, which is what section 771 requires anyway.