Middlesex County has two kinds of roof to replace. Up north, Perth Amboy's median house went up in 1959 and its roof has likely been redone before. Down south, Monroe Township's dates to 1995, and plenty of those houses still wear the shingles they were built with.
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The county median is 1975, a few years newer than the state. That number hides a wide spread. In Monroe Township 43 percent of homes went up this century, and South Brunswick has a 1987 median. A house from the late 1980s or 1990s may still be on its original roof, and shingles that old are often close to worn out.
Go north toward Raritan Bay and the picture flips. Perth Amboy dates to 1959, Carteret to 1960 and Dunellen to 1955. Roofs there have usually been replaced at least once, and an earlier crew may have laid new shingles on top of old ones. Some of those houses still have plank decking under everything.
The whole county sits in the middle of the Central Zone. Winter storms often come as a mix of rain and snow, and slush in the valleys freezes again overnight. In July a dark roof in full sun gets far hotter than the air. Shingles take both, year after year.
A 1995 roof and a 1959 roof are different jobs, so nobody here gets a price from the curb. We go up, count layers, and look in the attic first.
Age tells us where to look, but the price comes from what we find up there and in the attic. You keep the photos either way.
A worn roof is not always a finished roof. When a repair will buy real time, we price the repair. Roof repair in Middlesex County
Medians from 1955 to 1960, and about one home in five is a two-family house. Expect more than one layer and sometimes plank decking. We plan time to walk the deck once the shingles are off, and the estimate lists the work days so a tenant downstairs knows when we will be there.
Medians of 1995 and 1987, mostly one layer over plywood. The question here is usually whether the original shingles are done. About one home in four in Monroe Township and one in five in South Brunswick is attached, and an attached roof goes through the town construction office. Many of those roofs also belong to an association.
The gutters come off for a tear off anyway, so it is a good moment to decide on new ones. Gutter installation in Middlesex County
Most houses take one or two days once work starts, weather permitting. All seven steps are on the roof replacement page.
We get on the roof when it is safe to, check the attic and take photos. You see them before we talk about price.
Scope, materials, number of days and the price, on paper. Any permit goes on it too.
Every layer comes off down to the wood. If we find rotted boards, we stop and show you before we replace them.
New underlayment and shingles go on. Then we haul the old roof away and run a magnet over the lawn and driveway for nails.
On a detached one- or two-family house, no. New Jersey's construction code treats a new roof covering on a detached one- or two-family house as ordinary maintenance, so there is no permit and no notice to the town. A townhouse or other attached house usually goes through the town's construction office. Cranbury has historic districts, where exterior work needs a certificate of approval from the Historic Preservation Commission. An in-kind replacement counts as ordinary maintenance there, but the town still wants the details first. We check with your town before we start, and any permit goes on the estimate.
On roofing work, we are also GAF Certified. What GAF Certified means
If it is in Middlesex County, yes. We cover all 25 municipalities, from Carteret to Woodbridge. Put your ZIP code in the estimate form and we confirm it when we call you back.
It might be. Many houses built in the late 1980s and 1990s still have their first roof, and shingles from then are often near the end. We go up, photograph the tabs, the ridge and the gutters, and say plainly if a repair would carry it longer.
Size, pitch, the number of layers, how much decking is bad and the shingle you choose all move it. A one-layer roof in South Brunswick and a two-layer roof in Carteret price very differently. We do not quote over the phone. The written price comes after the inspection.
On a detached one- or two-family house, no construction permit. The state treats it as ordinary maintenance. Townhouses, other attached houses and buildings of three or more units go through the town's construction office. Cranbury's historic districts also want the details of exterior work first, and we check before we start.
Two households share the roof. With your tenant's okay we look at the ceilings in both units, and the estimate lists the work days so you can give notice. On a detached two-family, the roof needs no construction permit.
Call us, but check with your association first. In most condos the roof and the siding belong to the association, and the board hires the contractor. Townhouses vary. Your association documents say who owns what.
Send us your town and what you are noticing. We call you back shortly, inspect the roof for free, and give you photos with a written price. If a repair makes more sense, that is what you hear.
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