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This dormered cape in Barrington — with the bay literally in its drone shots — took the full exterior package: a complete reroof in CertainTeed Landmark, Charcoal Black, new skylights, and fresh cedar shake siding where the old walls had weathered past their prime.
Scope of Work
The crew stripped and rebuilt the roof as a full system — membrane at eaves and valleys, underlayment, starters, Landmark shingles in Charcoal Black, and caps — working the shed dormers’ cheeks and returns where capes hide their hardest flashing. New skylights were set into the fresh field, and sections of wall got new cedar shake siding to match the home’s shingle-style character.
What We Installed (And Why)
CertainTeed Landmark delivers dual-layer architectural depth, a Class A fire rating, and CertainTeed’s lifetime limited warranty. Charcoal Black is its most decisive color — a deep, even blend that turns a roofline into an outline.
Against white trim and natural cedar walls, a near-black roof gives a bayside cape the crisp, nautical look the East Bay is known for. It also flatters skylights: dark fields make the glass read as intentional design rather than interruptions.
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Good To Know: Why do capes and dormers need extra flashing care?
A dormer is a small house standing on your roof — with its own walls, corners, and roof plane, every edge of which meets the main field in a flashing detail. Step flashing up the cheeks, apron flashing at the front, valley treatment where rooflines merge: a cape with two dormers carries more linear feet of flashing than a plain colonial twice its size. When dormered roofs leak, it is almost never the shingles. Hire for the details, not the field.
Why This Approach Works
Roof, skylights, and siding sequenced as one project mean every seam — wall to roof, glass to shingle, shake to trim — was closed by the same crew in the same weeks. Coastal exteriors live and die at their seams.
Why Pinnacle
Pinnacle Roofing & Skylights is a CertainTeed ShingleMaster Premier contractor — the highest residential credential CertainTeed offers — which means verified installation standards and access to enhanced warranty coverage on every CertainTeed project. The siding work carried the same care: real cedar, proper exposure, clean lines against new trim. With more than 100 five-star Google reviews and an A+ BBB rating, our track record speaks for itself.
Barrington, RI
Barrington wraps around the Barrington and Warren Rivers to Narragansett Bay — a town of capes and colonials that live with salt air on three sides. Its homes reward complete, coordinated exterior work. Pinnacle has completed many projects throughout Barrington. See our Barrington roofing page for more on how we serve this community.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why Charcoal Black on a bayside Barrington cape?
Charcoal Black is the most decisive color in CertainTeed’s Landmark line, a deep, even blend that turns a roofline into a crisp outline. Against white trim and natural cedar shake walls, a near-black roof gives this Barrington cape the nautical look the East Bay is known for. A dark field also makes the new skylights read as part of the design instead of interruptions.
Why do the roof, skylights and siding all at once?
Coastal exteriors fail at their seams: wall to roof, glass to shingle, shake to trim. Sequencing the reroof, the new skylights and the cedar siding as one project meant the same crew closed every one of those joints in the same weeks. The skylights were set into the fresh shingle field rather than cut into an old roof later.
What kind of siding went on this house?
Sections of wall that had weathered past their prime got new real cedar shake siding, installed at proper exposure with clean lines against new trim to match the home’s shingle-style character. Barrington lives with salt air on three sides, and its capes and colonials hold up better with complete, coordinated exterior work like this than with piecemeal repairs.