A large two story home in Newington with an attached garage, a farmer’s porch across the front, and a roofline carrying multiple gables and dormers. Light gray lap siding with white trim, finished under a charcoal shingle roof.
Newington is a demanding spot to put an exterior on. The town sits wedged between Great Bay and the Piscataqua with open water on several sides, so houses here take brackish air and wind with a long run across the bay. Materials that comfortably reach twenty five years inland often come up short here, and it is usually the metal that goes first: fasteners, flashing, drip edge.
Doing the roof and siding together
Handling both at once was the right call, and not simply for convenience.
The junction where a roof plane meets a wall causes a large share of the water damage we get called to. Detailing that transition properly is far easier when both surfaces are open at the same time, because everything can be lapped in the correct order. Roof one year, siding three years later, and somebody is working around finished work and hoping it holds.
On a house with this many gables, dormers and porch returns, there are a lot of those junctions. That is where the time went, and it is where a rushed exterior shows first.
The roof
Charcoal architectural shingles over synthetic underlayment, with ice and water shield along the eaves and through every valley. New drip edge, and step flashing at every wall junction rather than reused metal.
The siding
Light gray lap siding with white trim, corner posts and window surrounds. House wrap lapped and taped correctly before anything went on, and flashing renewed at every window and door opening.
