This is not a roofing company.
Richmond County Roofing does not sell, install, inspect, quote, estimate or repair roofing work. It does not recommend, rank or refer a contractor — not for money and not for free. There is no phone number on this site, no contact form, and no list of companies. If a listing on HomeAdvisor, MapQuest or another directory sent you here expecting a contractor, that listing describes a business that published at this web address until 2022. The domain was re-registered in 2026 and now carries a reference work that has no connection to it.
What is here instead is one thing, done completely: what the 2022 New York City Construction Codes and New York law require of a roof on a one- or two-family house in Richmond County, with the section number, the edition year and a link to the city's own PDF beside every number. New York City does not use the International Residential Code, so most nationally written roofing advice is wrong here in specific, checkable ways — the ice barrier, the attic ventilation ratio, the required shingle wind class and the permit line are all different in the five boroughs.
No page here will find you a person. What this site can do in the next ten minutes is show you how to confirm that a contractor's Home Improvement Contractor licence is real, what proof of workers' compensation New York State actually accepts, what a written contract in this city must contain, and how long you have to cancel one after you sign.
Fault index
This index points to reading, not to a diagnosis. Nothing on this site is an inspection of your building.
| What is happening | What it usually is | Where it is answered |
|---|---|---|
| A stain appears in February and not in July | Ice damming at a cold eave; attic ventilation | ice barrier |
| Shingle tabs on the lawn after a storm | Wind class and fastening | shingle wind class |
| The contractor says the roof needs new plywood | This is the permit trigger, and it is a priced line | permit; cost |
| The contractor offers to handle the insurance claim | GBL § 771-b and unlicensed public adjusting | storm chasers |
| The flat rear extension holds water after rain | Positive drainage and minimum slope by material | low-slope extension |
| The estimate is one line and one number | The City publishes a model estimate to compare it to | cost; before you sign |
| Somebody said a permit is needed over 25% of the roof | There is no 25% threshold in 1 RCNY § 101-14 | permit |
| The salesman named a "lifetime, 130 mph" shingle | What the warranty document defines those words as | warranty; wind class |
[ACS 2024] U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimates, Richmond County, New York (FIPS 36085), tables B25024, B25003, B25034 and B25037, retrieved through the Census Reporter API. censusreporter.org · Retrieved 2026-08-06
The stock
82.2% of the housing here is one- or two-family, and the median unit was built in 1974.
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When the 2022 New York City Building Code forbids shingling over an existing roof
The conditions under which a new covering may not be laid over the old, and what the code requires be removed instead.
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The ice barrier is measured 24 inches inside the wall line, not up from the eave
Where the required membrane has to reach, measured from the wall below rather than from the roof edge.
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What the code requires of a low-slope rear extension and its parapet
Positive drainage, minimum slope by material, and what the parapet above it has to carry.
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FDNY's published position on torch-applied roofing over combustible construction
What the Fire Department has published about torch application over combustible construction, and what that term describes.
The weather
There is one design wind speed for the whole city, 117 mph, but the code draws two exposure categories across this borough.
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At 117 mph the code requires ASTM D7158 Class G or H, printed on the bundle
The wind class the code requires here, and where it is written on the bundle wrapper the material arrived in.
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One design wind speed citywide; the shoreline difference is exposure, not speed
Why the code draws two exposure categories across this borough while the design wind speed does not change.
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The hurricane deductible is a percentage of the dwelling limit, not a flat $1,000
Where the deductible is stated on a declarations page, and what a percentage of the dwelling limit means rather than a flat amount.
The filing
The permit line in New York City is the deck, not a percentage.
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A DOB permit is triggered by the deck, not by a percentage of the roof
What 1 RCNY § 101-14 treats as an ordinary repair, and why no percentage threshold appears in it.
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Replacing a roof covering does not trigger the sustainable roofing zone
What the sustainable roofing zone applies to, and which section says so in which edition of the code.
The transaction
Staten Island files 2.1% of the city's roofing complaints while holding about 4.6% of its housing, because an owner-occupant has no landlord to report.
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The checks that decide whether a New York City homeowner ever recovers money
Licence, workers' compensation proof, contract contents and the cancellation clocks, in the order they decide the outcome.
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Offering to cover your deductible is prohibited by General Business Law § 771-b
What that section prohibits, and what handling an insurance claim on a homeowner's behalf requires of the person doing it.
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What is known about roof cost here, and how to read the estimate you were handed
Which cost figures carry a named source, a date and a defined scope, and which ones the sources only disagree about.
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What a "lifetime" shingle warranty covers, according to the warranty document
What the warranty document defines those words as, read against what was said at the door.
What this site will not do
- No phone number
- No quotes, estimates or calculators
- No inspections
- No contractor names, rankings or referrals
- No testimonials or reviews
- No number without a source, a date and a scope
What is not settled
§ 1507.2.8.1 of the 2022 New York City Building Code requires the ice barrier to extend to a point 24 inches inside the exterior wall line, and the code text does not say whether that 24 inches is measured horizontally or along the slope. The two readings produce different lengths of membrane on the same roof, and no page here will treat the question as closed. Every document this site has opened is listed at Every document this site cites, and anything found to be wrong after publication is recorded, dated, at Corrections.