Flat and Low-Slope Roof Work in the Town of Cicero
We do this work in Cicero, and we are not going to claim the town has a low-slope pattern its own housing record does not show.
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What still holds for a shallow Cicero roof
The rule is national in this state and it does not soften for a newer town. Asphalt shingles are permitted only at 2 units vertical in 12 horizontal or steeper under section R905.2.2, and below that line the lawful coverings are a defined list with a minimum design slope of a quarter unit in 12: built-up, modified bitumen, single-ply membrane, sprayed polyurethane foam and liquid-applied. If the shallow section on your house is shingled and measures under 2:12, that is a product problem regardless of what the rest of the town looks like. If it measures above, the recurring leak is almost certainly a detail rather than a slope.
Take the measurement first
Your own roof is the only evidence that counts here. Two units in twelve is the line and it takes a level and a tape to settle.
If the pitch passes, look at the joints
On newer housing a repeat leak over a low section is usually a wall junction or a penetration, which is a smaller and different job.
Expect us to talk you out of work
Where the slope is fine and the covering is sound there is nothing here to sell, and we will say that rather than find something.
What Cicero's age profile does and does not support
In the Town of Cicero the median year of construction is 1980. Of 13,584 housing units, 6.9 percent were built in 1939 or earlier, 10.6 percent before 1950, 49.6 percent before 1980 and 50.4 percent in 1980 or later. 80.8 percent are single-family detached and 80.6 percent of occupied units are owner occupied.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B25034 year structure built, B25035 median year structure built, B25024 units in structure and B25003 tenure, accessed 2026-09-14
No public dataset counts enclosed porches, low-slope additions, breezeways or attached garage roofs in Onondaga County. The American Community Survey publishes year structure built, units in structure, tenure and value by place and town, and no roof geometry at all. Neither the Census nor the New York codes publish roof slope or roof covering by property.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B25034 year structure built, B25035 median year structure built, B25024 units in structure and B25003 tenure, accessed 2026-09-14
The 2025 Residential Code of New York State recognizes a specific set of low-slope coverings, each with a minimum design slope of one quarter unit vertical in 12 units horizontal, a 2 percent slope, for drainage: built-up roofs at R905.9 (coal-tar built-up may go to one eighth in 12), modified bitumen at R905.11, single-ply membrane at R905.12, sprayed polyurethane foam at R905.13 and liquid-applied roofing at R905.14.
Source: 2025 Residential Code of New York State, via UpCodes, accessed 2026-09-14
What low-slope roofing involves
Why Cicero gets a short page on this one
The low-slope argument on this site is built on old, added-to housing, and Cicero mostly is not that. Only 6.9 percent of the town's 13,584 units were standing in 1939 or earlier and 50.4 percent were built in 1980 or later. There is also a hard limit on what anyone can say: no public dataset counts enclosed porches, low-slope additions, breezeways or attached garage roofs anywhere in Onondaga County, and neither the Census nor the codes publish roof slope or covering by property. So rather than infer a local pattern from a town that does not have the age profile to support it, we will measure your roof and tell you what the code allows on it.
Get the pitch measured on your own roof
A photo of the shallow section and what it covers. We arrange an insured contractor who measures before proposing anything.
Shallow roof questions from Cicero
Why does the Elbridge page say more than this one?
Because Elbridge has a published number that bears directly on slope and Cicero does not. Seventeen percent of Elbridge housing is manufactured, and manufactured roofs are low pitched by design. Cicero's own figures are about age and detached housing, which say nothing about slope, so we have left the page at what we can actually support.
Do you still cover the Brewerton and Bridgeport ends of town?
Yes, the whole Town of Cicero. Coverage is not the issue on this page; the issue is that we will not dress up a county-wide argument as a Cicero-specific one. Send a photo of the shallow section and we will get the pitch measured.
Ask us about the low section
Tell us where it is and how often it leaks. No obligation, and the measurement decides whether there is a job at all.