The most common question we get from homeowners who are getting ready to replace a roof in the Hamptons is some version of: “What is this going to cost me?” It is a fair question with an honest, if frustrating, answer: it depends significantly on your...
If you have spent any time on the South Fork of Long Island, you know that the air here is different. Standing on a beach in Montauk or Westhampton Beach, you can taste the salt. That ocean air — laden with sodium chloride, magnesium, and other marine aerosols...
Flat roofs on Long Island homes and commercial buildings fail quietly — and by the time the failure is obvious, it has usually been going on for a while. Unlike a missing asphalt shingle that you might notice from the street, a flat roof leak typically presents...
It is the question we get more than any other at Straightline Roofing, particularly from homeowners who are replacing a roof for the first time on an East End home: cedar shake or asphalt shingles? Both are proven systems. Both are used extensively throughout the...
If you own a home on Long Island’s East End, you already know what nor’easters are capable of. The storm of March 2018 stripped roofing from houses across Hampton Bays and Westhampton Beach. The Halloween storm of 2019 toppled trees onto roofs from Quogue...
