We bought the top floor of a brand new converted brownstone two years ago. <\/p>\n
Our inspector at the time said the roof wasn’t great but should last around 7-10 years. <\/p>\n
As it has turned out, we’ve had quite a bit of leaking over the winter and two contractors have told us that we should get a new roof sooner than later. At best, they say it MIGHT last another winter. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We bought the top floor of a brand new converted brownstone two years ago. Our inspector at the time said the roof wasn’t great but should last around 7-10 years. As it has turned out, we’ve had quite a bit of leaking over the winter and two contractors have told us that we should get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-42217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roofers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/the-roof\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Roof","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/the-roof\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/the-roof\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Roofers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"johndudz"}],"creator":["johndudz"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-03-24T15:12:47Z","datePublished":"2010-03-24T15:12:47Z","dateModified":"2010-03-25T15:15:45Z"},"rendered":"