South Orange combines older Victorian and Colonial homes with the steep terrain that makes them charming and the venting that comes with them tricky. Plus the student rental properties around Seton Hall, which need their own approach.
Most of South Orange is built on hills. Newstead and Montrose run up the slope from the train station, and the streets around the Seton Hall University campus are similarly steep. The housing is mostly pre-war — Victorians, Colonials, Tudors and stone homes from the 1890s through the 1930s — with an overlay of newer construction further up the mountain.
For dryer vents, the hilly terrain matters more than people expect. A vent run that exits a side wall on a downhill slope ends up much closer to the ground than the original installer planned. Snow piles up against it, leaves clog it, and the damper sticks. We've replaced more weather-damaged caps in South Orange than anywhere else we work.
Newstead, Montrose, the Seton Hall University area, the Tuscan section near Maplewood, the streets around the South Orange Performing Arts Center and downtown, the homes up by South Mountain Reservation, and the Wyoming section. Same-day across the village.
We also serve Maplewood next door, Millburn/Short Hills, West Orange, Livingston, Montclair, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Verona and Cedar Grove.