Roofers in Jersey City and nearby Hudson County towns

Roofer Jersey City is an independent referral service, not a roofing company. When you call or send the form, an independent local roofer can contact you about your job; that roofer gives any quote and does any work.

Downtown

Downtown grew around three squares: Paulus Hook, Hamilton and Van Vorst. Van Vorst Park is lined with ornate brick and brownstone rowhouses from the late 1800s. Requests from Paulus Hook, Hamilton Park, Van Vorst Park and Harsimus Cove are all welcome. Expect flat roofs behind parapets, carved cornices at the front, and shared walls. Paulus Hook and Van Vorst Park are historic districts: ask the city before changing roofing material or anything visible from the street. See brownstone roof repair.

The Heights

Requests from The Heights are welcome for any kind of roof: pitched or flat, shingle, slate or membrane. For a pitched roof, see roof repair in Jersey City; for a full new roof, roof replacement.

Journal Square and McGinley Square

Requests from Journal Square and McGinley Square are welcome too, for a house or for a walk-up or other multi-family building. Low-slope roofs on larger buildings mean several drains and plenty of membrane to watch. See flat roofs in Jersey City.

Greenville, Bergen-Lafayette and Communipaw

Requests from Bergen-Lafayette, Communipaw and Greenville are welcome, whether the building is a row, an attached home, a two-family house or a small building, with a flat roof or a pitched one. If you live in an attached home, read the Jersey City roofing permit guide before work starts.

West Side

The West Side has houses and small buildings of every kind. Leaks, repairs and replacements come up here as anywhere. If water is coming in, start with roof leak repair in Jersey City.

Nearby Hudson County towns

Requests are welcome from the towns around Jersey City too:

• Hoboken and Weehawken
• Union City and West New York
• North Bergen and Secaucus
• Bayonne
• Kearny and Harrison

Construction permits come from your own municipality. New Jersey’s ordinary-maintenance rule is a state rule, so the same exemption for roof covering on detached one- and two-family dwellings applies across the county. For attached homes, larger buildings or structural work, ask your town’s construction office whether a permit is needed before work starts.

Roof types you find around the county

Roof	Where it tends to turn up	Page to read
Flat roof behind parapets	Brick and brownstone rows, attached homes	Brownstone roof repair
Wide low-slope roof	Walk-ups and multi-family buildings	Flat roofs in Jersey City
Pitched shingle or slate roof	Detached houses and some two-family homes	Roof replacement
Cornice	The front of older rows	Roof work in a historic district

What to tell the roofer about where you live

A few details about your street help a roofer plan the visit. Say whether your house is attached or detached, how many floors it has, and how you reach the roof: a hatch, a bulkhead door, or a ladder from the yard. Mention whether there is a side yard or rear access, and whether parking on the block is tight, since materials and debris have to come and go. If the building is in a historic district such as Paulus Hook or Van Vorst Park, say so at the start. And if your neighbors have had roof work done recently, mention it: on a row, their roof meets yours.

The same checks in every town

New Jersey’s contractor rules are statewide. Wherever you live, the contractor must be registered with the Division of Consumer Affairs to advertise and do home improvement work, any job of $500 or more needs a written contract, and you can cancel a signed contract for any reason before midnight of the third business day after you get your copy. Ask for the contractor’s liability insurance policy and call the insurer. The roofing contractors in Jersey City NJ page has the full checklist, and choosing a roofing company in Jersey City covers the job itself.

Questions people ask