Roofing Service Areas Across North Jersey

Inspections, Town by Town

The free inspection is how most of these towns first meet us, so each one now has its own inspection page with the local specifics spelled out. What an inspector looks for changes more from town to town than people expect, because the housing went up in different eras for different reasons.

In Montclair, the inspector needs to know slate and cedar as well as asphalt, because the Tudors and 1920s colonials up toward Upper Montclair still carry their original roofs. Bloomfield splits into two waves, the pre-war four-squares around the green off Broad Street and the postwar capes out toward Watsessing, and each wave fails in its own way. Passaic is parapet walls, flat sections behind front gables, and drainage, more membrane work than shingle work. Wayne is trees and wind, from the Preakness valley split-levels to the lake homes around Packanack and Pines Lake.

Nutley packs three square miles with pre-war colonials and capes, dormers and plank decking included, and an inspection there is as much about the patch history as the shingles. Garfield has been a mill town since 1873 and runs heavily two-family, with flashing and valleys usually the first things to go. Little Falls sits between the Passaic and the Peckman and floods, which makes a tight roof matter more there than almost anywhere else we work. Fair Lawn ages in waves, whole streets of capes and ranches on the same construction calendar, so one ceiling stain on a block is a good reason to check your own attic.

Over the Bergen line, Paramus is the postwar ranches and split-levels tucked between Routes 4 and 17, an easy run up 17 from the shop. Wyckoff is almost entirely owner-occupied single-family homes on established lots, a pitched-roof, asphalt-shingle town. And in Woodland Park, the homes on the slopes near Garret Mountain Reservation catch wind at an angle the flatland houses never see. Every one of these inspections is free, takes about an hour, and ends with photos you keep and a plain verdict: fix this now, watch that one, leave the rest alone.

What stands behind the work afterward is written out on our GAF certification and roof warranty guide, and the reviews Clifton homeowners have left us, 5.0 across 117 on Google, are collected on the Clifton reviews page.