Roofing in Hampstead, North Carolina

What Hampstead Does to a Roof

Hampstead is close to the water without being on it, which produces a specific and slightly deceptive set of conditions. There is enough salt in the air to age the metal on a roof faster than it would age inland, and enough exposure to Topsail Sound weather for wind to be a real factor, but the houses are far enough back that homeowners often assume they are out of the coastal zone entirely. They are not, and the roofs show it at the flashing and the fasteners.

The corridor has also grown quickly, which means the housing stock splits into two groups with two different problems. The newer subdivisions are young enough that anything going wrong is an installation issue rather than an age issue. The older homes along the sound and off the highway are at or past the end of a normal asphalt roof's life, and many are on their original roof. The right inspection looks different depending on which of those a house is.

What We Put On Hampstead Homes

Architectural shingle covers most of what we do in Hampstead, with attention paid to the wind rating because of the sound exposure. On the older homes the more important question is usually the condition of the decking and the flashing rather than which shingle goes on top of it.