Roofer in Scituate, RI

Scituate is an inland town, about 345 feet above sea level and roughly 55 square miles, most of it forest, farmland, and the Scituate Reservoir. There's no salt air problem here like a Narragansett Bay town has, but the tree cover creates its own set of issues: heavy leaf and needle litter that clogs valleys and gutters, branches that come down in nor'easters and ice storms, and enough shade on north-facing slopes to slow snow melt and encourage ice damming along the eaves in a hard winter.

The housing stock reflects the town's history. Scituate lost most of its original villages when the reservoir was built in the 1920s, and what's left is concentrated in North Scituate, Hope, and Clayville, along with newer homes spread out on larger wooded lots across the rest of the town. North Scituate's village center has a cluster of 19th-century Federal and Greek Revival homes, some in the Hope Village and Smithville/North Scituate Village historic districts, alongside capes, colonials, and contemporary construction built since. Older village homes and newer wooded-lot homes wear differently, and we check for both when we're up there.