Roofing in Windham County

Our work in Windham County

Our own job history shows 10 completed roofs across 4 Windham County towns.

Every town we cover in Windham County

Click a town for its full permit and code detail.

What these numbers actually mean

The design wind speed sets the fastener schedule and the manufacturer wind rating we specify. The ground snow load drives the ice-barrier detail — Connecticut requires ice barrier statewide under code section R905.1.2, running from the lowest roof edge to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line.

Connecticut’s code minimum is four nails per shingle. Shingle manufacturers require six to keep their wind warranty in force, and six is what we install. That is a manufacturer requirement, not a code one. The full explanation is in our Connecticut roofing code guide.

Wind, snow and permits across Windham County's 15 towns

Windham County holds all three ground snow loads Connecticut uses. Four of its towns sit at 30 psf, six at 35 psf and five at 40 psf. Statewide, 40 psf appears in the northwest corner and part of the northeast, just 18 towns in all, and five of them are here. Wind is narrower. Every town here is at 120 or 125 mph, inside a statewide spread that runs from 115 mph in the northwest hills to 129 mph at the southeastern shoreline.

The two figures do not rise and fall together. Pomfret and Putnam carry the county's highest figures on both counts, 125 mph and 40 psf. The four 120 mph towns are not the light-snow towns. Eastford, Thompson and Woodstock pair 120 mph with 40 psf, and Ashford pairs it with 35 psf. The four 30 psf towns, Canterbury, Plainfield, Scotland and Windham, all sit at 125 mph. No town here has both low figures, so check the town's own pair.

Connecticut's minimum is four nails per shingle, whether the town is at 120 mph like Woodstock or 125 mph like Putnam. The shingle manufacturers want six before they will stand behind a wind claim, and six is what we install. None of this county's towns is among the ten southeastern towns where the residential and commercial code tables disagree on wind speed.

The ice-barrier minimum is the same in every town here. Connecticut's amendment R905.1.2 requires ice barrier statewide, from the lowest edge of the roof to a point 24 inches or more inside the exterior wall line, measured on the slope. The town of Windham at 30 psf gets the same minimum as Woodstock at 40 psf. On a shallow pitch that is a surprising amount of membrane. The sealed roof deck rule, R905.1.1, also has no regional limit and applies anywhere in the state when a roof is replaced. It does not apply over lumber sheathing of less than 3 feet nominal width, which the guide calls common on pre-1950 Connecticut houses. Both are laid out in our Connecticut roofing code guide.

Each town page carries its own permit line. The state's list of local building officials gives a building department phone number for all 15 towns. Some of those numbers carry an extension, including Chaplin (125 mph, 35 psf) at x315, Eastford (120 mph, 40 psf) at x8 and Hampton (125 mph, 35 psf) at x6.

These figures come from Appendix AY of the 2022 Connecticut State Building Code. The next code cycle was expected to take effect on July 1, 2026. The Office of the State Building Inspector now says that date is delayed while the legislature's Regulation Review Committee reviews it (checked September 17, 2026). When it lands, the appendix is renumbered and some hurricane-region, wind and snow entries change. The town pages are built from one table, so they are re-pulled and rebuilt together.

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