Metal Roofing
Standing seam and corrugated metal roofs built to shed Northeast snow and last fifty years or more.
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General contractor · New York, Vermont, Massachusetts
Metal Roofing, Slate Roofing and Home Remodeling Across NY, VT and MA
We install standing seam metal, repair century-old slate, and handle the remodeling, finish carpentry and custom woodworking inside. Six counties, three states, one crew.
- Fully Insured
- Six Counties, Three States
- Free Written Estimates
5.0
Google rating
36+
Google reviews
6
Counties, three states
107
Towns covered
2020
Building here since
Who we are
Most contractors pick a lane. We came up the other way.
A lot of companies do asphalt roofs, or they do kitchens. If you need both, you hire twice and hope the two crews talk to each other. We do the roof and we do the room underneath it, which means one person is accountable when the two have to meet.
Metal and slate are what we are known for, and they are the two roofing materials that punish a shortcut hardest. A standing seam panel telegraphs a bad measurement down its whole length. A slate repair either matches or it looks like a patch forever. Working to that standard every day is what sets the bar for the trim in your hallway, the deck off the back, and the barn you have been meaning to put up for three years.
Our service area is wide on purpose. Metal and slate work is specialised enough that the homeowners who need it are spread thin across Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Schenectady counties in New York, Bennington County in Vermont, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts. We would rather drive to Bennington than tell someone with a failing slate roof to call around.
What we do
Ten services, one contractor
Roofing is the specialism. The rest is what a house needs from the same people who are already up there and already know how it is put together.
Slate Roofing
Repair, restoration and installation of natural slate, including matching salvaged tile on historic homes.
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Roof Repair & Replacement
Leak repair, storm damage, and full tear-offs on asphalt, metal and slate. We find the actual source, not the wet spot.
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Home Remodeling
Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and whole-home renovations, run by the same crew from demo through punch list.
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Finish Carpentry & Trim Work
Crown molding, wainscoting, built-ins and casing. The detail work that separates a renovation from a repair.
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Custom Woodworking
Built to fit the room it lives in: cabinetry, shelving, mantels and furniture-grade pieces in the species you pick.
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Exterior Painting
Prep-first exterior painting on clapboard, cedar and trim, using coatings that survive a Northeast freeze and thaw cycle.
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Deck Building & Restoration
New decks, structural repair, and stripping and refinishing decks that still have good bones underneath.
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Siding & Gutters
Vinyl, fiber cement and wood siding, plus seamless gutters and guards that move water away from the foundation.
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Barns & Outbuildings
Pole barns, workshops, sheds and storage buildings for rural and residential property, permits handled.
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Rated 5.0 by the people who hired us
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We hired Stephen to repair our deck, and he did such a great job that we also hired him to add a bathroom to our finished basement. He was communicative, flexible, and worked clean. We are elated with how it all turned out. Thank you for helping us love our home!
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Needed repair of flooring area prior to new dishwasher install. minor adjustments to kitchen sink cabinet door and bifold doors in kitchen. I would use him again...Very friendly ,easy to work with. Sticks to a schedule which is extremely important to me. Will use him for further projects
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Stephen is 100% the BEST overall Contractor out there! He can do it ALL! He crushed the project I gave him which was no small feat! He insulated, Drywalled, Ran electrical, Plumbed, Tiled, Painted and basically Built an entirely new Bathroom & Laundry room for us! Can’t thank him and his crew enough!!
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Great pricing, communication, and work. Project looks great. Will be using for all home needs big and small.
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John was terrific replacing old wooden windows with new vinyl ones. They delivered on schedule and at the agreed price. They kept everything clean, which we really appreciated. Our plants are much more comfortable this winter without those breezes!
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Was a pleasure to work with Upstate KC-Builders! Fixed some exterior damage on my house, then scraped and painted it to look beautiful again! I would recommend Upstate KC-Builders to anyone who needed work completed! Stephen is a kind, honest, hardworking, awesome person! Thank you for all you have done for me!
Why us
What you are actually buying
Three states, one crew
The same people who quote the job are on the roof doing it. Nothing gets handed to a sub you never met, and nothing gets lost between two companies blaming each other.
Metal and slate specialists
These are the two roofing materials with the least tolerance for a sloppy detail, and they are what we are known for. Everything else we do gets held to the standard those roofs set.
Fully insured
Fully insured on every job, across all six counties in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts, and familiar with what each building department wants to see before it signs off.
Materials that suit the winter
Specification is not a preference here. Snow load, ice damming and freeze and thaw decide the panel gauge, the fastener pattern and the coating. We spec for the mountain, not the catalogue.
Where we work
Six counties, three states
One base, a wide radius, and a genuine reason for it. Specialist roofing work does not cluster neatly inside one county line.
NY
Albany County
Capital District homes from city rowhouses to Helderberg farmhouses, all of it under Northeast snow load.
Berne, Bethlehem, Coeymans, Cohoes, Colonie and 12 more
Serving Albany County
NY
Rensselaer County
Hill-town farmhouses and older village stock east of the Hudson, much of it on original slate.
Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Grafton, Hoosick and 14 more
Serving Rensselaer County
NY
Saratoga County
Our home county. New construction in Clifton Park and Malta, historic homes in Saratoga Springs, horse property in between.
Ballston Lake, Charlton, Clifton Park, Corinth, Day and 14 more
Serving Saratoga County
NY
Schenectady County
Compact county, dense GE-era housing stock, and four towns that run from suburban to genuinely rural.
Glenville, Niskayuna, Rotterdam, Duanesburg
Serving Schenectady County
VT
Bennington County
Southern Vermont ski country and slate quarry country, with the building standards and the snow loads to match.
Arlington, Bennington, Dorset, Glastenbury, Landgrove and 11 more
Serving Bennington County
MA
Berkshire County
Western Massachusetts, from Williamstown to Sheffield. Historic estates, hill towns and a demanding state code.
Adams, Alford, Becket, Cheshire, Clarksburg and 27 more
Serving Berkshire CountyOur work
Recent jobs
Real projects from across the service area. Photography, not renderings.
Questions
The things people ask first
We work across six counties in three states: Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Schenectady counties in New York, Bennington County in Vermont, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts. That runs from the Mohawk Valley up through Saratoga, east over the Hudson, across the Vermont line into ski country, and south through the Berkshires.
No. We come out, look at the actual condition of the roof or the space, and give you a written estimate at no cost and with no obligation. If we think the job does not need doing yet, we will tell you that too.
A properly installed standing seam roof will outlast the homeowner who paid for it. Fifty years is the conservative number in the Northeast, and the panels usually outlive the fasteners and sealants, which are serviceable. Asphalt in the same conditions gives you fifteen to twenty before the freeze and thaw cycle starts opening seams.
Usually, yes, and most contractors will not tell you that because a tear-off is the easier sale. If the slate itself is sound and the failure is in the flashing, the nails or a section of tile, that is a repair. We source matching salvaged slate, which is what makes the repair invisible on a historic home instead of a patch.
Yes. We handle permitting with the town or city, and it matters more here than most places, because we work under three different state codes. Massachusetts runs its own stretch code, Vermont enforces a stricter energy standard than New York, and several of the towns we work in add historic district review on top of all that.
Yes, fully insured, and we carry it on every job across New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Ask us for the certificate before you sign anything, with us or with anyone else. A contractor who hesitates on that question has told you what you need to know.