Roofing Contractor in Garfield NJ

Garfield is an old mill town that got its start back in 1873 as East Passaic and grew up around industry. Most of the housing here went on before 1970, a lot of it two-family, packed close together on blocks like Belmont and Plauderville. Roofs that old leak at the flashing and the valleys first, and plenty of them carry two layers of asphalt by now, an original roof with a second laid over it in the eighties or nineties. That second layer hides wear you only see from the attic or in photos from up top.

We get calls all over the city, from the MacArthur Avenue and Farnham Avenue blocks to Bogart Heights and the river side near the Dundee Dam, where the wind runs harder than the forecast lets on. With close to six in ten homes here renter-occupied, a lot of these roofs sit over two-family houses and small rental buildings that share a wall with the place next door. Water does not respect a property line, so we document which side a failure is on and put the shared portion in writing. Landlords get timestamped photos that answer tenant questions before they turn into complaints.

Garfield also has a lot of flat and low-slope roofing, on the rear additions, the porches, and plenty of the small multi-family buildings. Those sections fail differently from a pitched roof, and the spot where the two meet is where the original flashing was usually an afterthought. We repair both systems, so a membrane problem and the pitched field feeding water down onto it get one answer from one contractor. Whatever the issue, it starts the same way: an honest hour on the roof, photos in hand, and a plain verdict on what needs doing and what can wait. The inspection costs nothing, and a good share of the time the news is better than you feared.