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Lou's Home Services LLC

Roofing, siding & exteriors

Owner-operated exterior contracting across Dutchess, Ulster, Putnam, Orange and Columbia counties. Written estimates, insured work, and one point of contact from first measurement through final walkthrough.

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What I do

Everything on the outside of the house

Full replacements, repairs, and maintenance — from a whole-house re-side down to a single leak.

  • 01 / ROOFING

    Roofing

    • Asphalt shingle tear-off and re-roof
    • Standing seam and snap-lock metal
    • Slate and designer shingle repair
    • Synthetic slate and shake — DaVinci, Brava
    • Leaks, flashing and chimney work
    • Ventilation and ice dam prevention
  • 02 / SIDING

    Siding

    • Vinyl lap, Dutch lap and board & batten
    • Wood siding — cedar shingle, shake, hemlock
    • Fiber cement and polymer shake
    • Metal siding and panel
    • Soffit and fascia — installation and repair
    • Siding repairs and panel matching
  • 03 / TRIM & MILLWORK

    Trim & millwork

    • PVC trim and column wraps
    • Door and window surrounds, shutters
    • Corbels, brackets and decorative soffits
    • Mortarless stone siding
  • 04 / FLAT ROOFING

    Flat & low-slope

    • Single-ply membrane — TPO, EPDM, PVC
    • Modified bitumen
    • Porch, addition and garage roofs
    • Deck waterproofing — Dec-Tec and DeckRite
    • ES-1 compliant edge metal and coping
    • Written inspections and thermal scanning
  • 05 / WINDOWS & DOORS

    Windows & doors

    • Replacement windows, insert or full frame
    • Entry, storm and patio doors
    • Rotted sill and jamb repair
    • Head flashing, capping and trim wrap
  • 06 / GUTTERS

    Gutters & upkeep

    • Cleaning, re-pitching, resealing
    • Guard installation
    • Heat cable for ice dams
    • Gutter brightening — removes the black stripes
  • 07 / STORM

    Storm restoration

    • Wind and hail damage inspection
    • Aerial roof photos for your claim
    • Emergency tarping
    • Documented inspections and communication
  • 08 / BUILDERS

    New construction

    • Whole-house exterior packages
    • Takeoffs direct from your plans
    • Scheduled around your build calendar
    • Paperwork ready before day one
  • Aerial view of a completed roof

    09 / GET STARTED

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Estimate tool

What a roof costs here

Roof pricing moves with size, pitch, how complicated the shape is, the condition of the decking underneath and the material you choose. Fill in what you know and you'll get a rough idea of where an asphalt shingle roof lands, tear-off included. Nothing to fill out afterward.

The footprint of the house, not total living space. A two-story 3,000 sq ft home usually has a ~1,500 sq ft footprint.

Estimated range

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  • Asphalt architectural shingle. Metal, slate and flat roofs price differently — call for those.
  • Assumes one layer coming off and sound decking underneath.
  • Rotted plywood, chimney work and skylights are priced separately, with a photo before anything gets replaced.
  • Approximate only. A firm price is issued in writing after an on-site measurement.
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Experience

Throughout my career

Roofs I've worked on over my career, with local family shops and with large regional and national roofing contractors — slate, copper, single-ply and shingle, on homes, institutional buildings and landmarks.

  • Weathered cedar shake roof on a barn home before replacement Crew stripping the cedar roof with the building wrapped in tarps The same barn home finished with a new standing seam metal roof
    Before · During · After Original cedar, moss-covered and done Stripped to the deck, walls and beds tarped New standing seam, snow rail at the eave
  • White farmhouse with standing seam porch roof, board and batten and shake siding
    Finished exteriorStanding seam porch over board & batten
  • Close view of shake siding with clean soffit, fascia and gutter line
    Where the detail showsShake courses running true into the fascia
  • Large natural slate roof with copper gutter and snow guards
    Natural slate, copper gutterCopper half-round gutter and snow guards
  • Grey slate roof with copper snow guards in a staggered pattern
    Copper snow guardsStaggered to protect the entry below
  • Patinated copper standing seam roof on a stone landmark building above a lake
    Copper standing seamPatinated copper on a stone landmark
  • Roofer seated on a landmark slate roof watching a formation of Black Hawk helicopters fly past
    Slate strip and re-layBlack Hawks passing overhead on a landmark roof
  • Copper snow slides installed over ice and water shield before the Camelot shingle field goes on
    Copper snow slidesSet in before the Camelot field goes on
  • Cape home with a new architectural shingle roof, photographed from the street
    Straight from the curbClean rake and eave lines
  • Cape style home with new architectural shingle roof and vinyl lap siding
    Roof and sidingArchitectural shingle over lap siding
  • New cedar shake roof on a yellow colonial home
    Cedar shake roofNatural cedar over colonial and carriage house
  • Vinyl siding with a white paneled accent surround and trimmed windows
    Trim workPaneled surround cut tight to the courses
  • Aerial drone photograph of a completed architectural shingle roof
    Finished re-roof, from the airDrone documentation on completed work
  • Completed grey architectural shingle roof with chimney flashing
    Clean course linesChimney flashed and wrapped
  • EPDM membrane going down on a historic Poughkeepsie building with the railroad bridge in view
    EPDM over an old deckNew membrane and recovery board
  • Roofer tied off on a commercial retail building roof at dusk
    Commercial workRetail strip roof, tied off to the ridge
  • New GAF Camelot designer shingles woven into an existing Camelot roof field
    Camelot repairNew courses woven into a twenty-year-old GAF Camelot field, sourced and cut in by hand
  • Home with a GAF Camelot designer shingle roof, one plane newly replaced beside the weathered original
    Blended into the originalBeside twenty years of weathering — no patchwork look
  • Roof tear-off with the entire house wrapped in protective tarps
    Tear-off dayWhole house tarped before the first shingle
  • Cedar shake debris piled on tarps beside a fully protected building
    Grounds and building protectionDebris lands on tarp, not the lawn
  • Roofer in a safety harness on newly installed plywood decking
    Decking and tie-offNew plywood down, everyone tied off
  • Original wide plank roof decking exposed after tear-off on an old building
    What is underneathOriginal plank decking, inspected before anything returns
  • Leak barrier and synthetic underlayment on a roof deck before shingles
    What goes on underneathLeak barrier and underlayment before a shingle
  • Peel and stick high temperature underlayment covering an entire roof deck
    Full peel-and-stickComplete high-temp coverage
  • Roofer walking the ridge of a very large shingle roof with mountains behind
    ScaleHundreds of squares, run to a schedule
  • Roofers drying in a new construction roof overlooking the Hudson River
    New constructionDry-in above the Hudson
  • Completed shingle roof on new construction with dormers and synthetic underlayment
    Builder workFinished field and dormers, new build

What goes on your house

Materials installed

Manufacturer choice is yours. These are the lines we specify and install regularly across roofing, siding and trim.

Steep-slope roofing

  • GAFArchitectural shingles — Authorized Contractor
  • Owens CorningArchitectural shingles
  • CertainTeedArchitectural shingles
  • New England SlateNatural roofing slate
  • DaVinciComposite slate & shake
  • BravaComposite slate, shake & tile
  • GraceIce & water shield underlayment

Metal & flat

  • PAC-CLADStanding seam & snap-lock metal
  • Revere CopperCopper valleys, flashing & roofing
  • CarlisleEPDM, TPO & PVC single-ply
  • ElevateEPDM & TPO, formerly Firestone
  • Dec-TecVinyl deck membrane
  • DeckRiteVinyl deck membrane

Siding

  • RoyalVinyl siding
  • MasticSiding & soffit
  • CertainTeedVinyl & polymer shake
  • James HardieFiber cement plank & panel
  • NichihaFiber cement panel systems
  • Versetta StoneMortarless stone veneer
  • ZIP SystemSheathing, tape & weather barrier

Trim & millwork

  • AzekPVC trim & decking
  • FyponColumns, brackets & millwork
  • RoyalPVC trim board

Roof leaking right now?

Emergency tarping and same-week inspections after wind and storm damage. Call before you file — photos taken before the tarp goes on are what get claims paid.

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Who you're hiring

Owner operated

Lou's Home Services is owned and operated by Luigi Sinapi, whose career has been spent entirely in roofing and siding — with local family shops here in the valley and with some of the largest roofing contractors in the country, including slate at West Point and on landmark buildings across the region.

The shop is small on purpose. The person who measures the roof is the person who prices it, schedules it, and answers the phone.

The details

Based
Poughkeepsie, NY
Serving
Dutchess, Ulster, Putnam, Orange & Columbia counties
Credentials
GAF Authorized · National Slate Association · OSHA 30 · ANSI/SPRI/ES-1
Insurance
Fully insured — certificate on request
Phone
845-489-1791

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