Slate Roof Specialist

As a slate roof specialist, Michael J Harris has little competition. That’s because most roofers are not in business long enough to have the craftsmanship and expertise to properly repair slate roofs. Only older and historic homes have slate roofs (too expensive to use on newer homes). Our company’s 100-year-plus history provides us with the unique capability to work on slate roofs.

We recommend slate roofs be properly finished with copper flashing and gutters. As you can see it makes a huge visual difference. We also highly recommend adding snow guards because slate can be slippery when wet and the guards alleviate huge sheets of snow coming down at once. Dumping big sheets of snow can take down the gutters and ruin the landscaping. They are relatively inexpensive to install.Asslate roof specialists, Michael J Harris has little competition

Michael J Harris Repairing Slate Roofs

Replacing the Fascia

Custom Copper Gutter Installation

Types of Slate for Slate Roofs

Slate is an all-natural material mined from quarries, primarily located in Vermont. Slate comes in different colors and can be combines to form a pattern. With so many to choose from, make sure to view samples to decide which one looks the best with your home. Here are the various slate options and their respective attributes.

Royal Purple - A beautiful, nearly clear, dark purple slate. Some pieces may have small markings of green. Provides a contrasting roof for walls of light shades, or a harmonizing roof for brick walls. Some weathering to buffs can occur.

variegated purple — A purple slate varying in shade from purple predominating to green predominating. A semi-weathering type slate where approximately 15% will weather to buffs and tans.

unfading mottled green — Unfading Mottled Green Purple - Vermont slate of unusual color, ranging in soft shades of purple and green in each piece, from purple predominating to green predominating.

slate color red — Unfading Red - A hard-vein red slate similar in color to Spanish mission tile.

Mottled gray black slate — Mottled Grey Black - Grayish background with mottled shades of darker Gray-Black; some weathering can occur. Sometimes called "Strata Gray."

canadian black slate — CANADIAN BLACK -One of our most popular colors. Primarily unfading but some weathering can occur, creating an interesting blend of dark gray tones, adding character to roofs of all styles.

Recent Slate Repair in Forest Hills, Newark

Many older New Jersey neighborhoods like Montclair, South Orange, Maplewood, Short Hills and Forest Hill have historical homes built when slate was used for the roof. Below is a recent job we did in Forest Hill, Newark in which we replaced broken slate, re-pointed the chimney and install copper flashing and a new copper collar for the vent pipe.