{"id":145978,"date":"2026-02-26T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:46:13","slug":"nyc-roofers-swamped-after-back-to-back-storms-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145978\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Roofers Swamped After Back-to-Back Storms This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roofing contractors across the New York metro area are reporting unprecedented demand following two major winter storms that buried the region under up to two feet of snow in a matter of weeks,\u00a0 straining crews and creating a backlog of service calls tied to ice damming, leaks, and structural concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Gothamist<\/a>, which first reported the demand surge, Amanda Veinott, owner of Maven Roofing & Exterior in Morris County, N.J., said her company fielded roughly 300 snow removal calls and completed 120 jobs over a three-week stretch \u2014 compared to approximately one snow removal job in a typical winter. In Brooklyn, Eden Sultan, senior project manager at Royal Renovators, said crews were receiving up to 30 calls per hour at peak, with requests spanning single-family homes, brownstones, and multifamily buildings.<\/p>\n

Ice damming emerged as the dominant issue driving calls. The region’s freeze-thaw cycle allowed meltwater to refreeze at gutters and drainage points, forcing water to back up and infiltrate attics and wall cavities. Left unaddressed, the damage can escalate quickly \u2014 making early intervention both a safety issue and a significant upsell opportunity for contractors already on-site.<\/p>\n

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The New York City Department of Buildings said most roofs in the city are engineered to meet code-required snow loads, but officials emphasized that structural capacity can deteriorate without regular maintenance. The agency reported no roof collapses tied to the recent storms \u2014 though the volume of service calls suggests widespread performance issues short of collapse.<\/p>\n

For contractors in cold-weather markets, the back-to-back storms underscore a familiar but often underutilized business reality: extreme weather events compress months of potential maintenance conversations into a single phone call. Customers who never thought twice about roof upkeep are suddenly asking the right questions \u2014 and looking for someone they trust to answer them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roofing contractors across the New York metro area are reporting unprecedented demand following two major winter storms that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1066,9,24,55,54,56,61185,50531,61184],"class_list":["post-145978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-residential-roofing-contractor","tag-snow-and-ice","tag-storm-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}