Roofing Company in New Brunswick, NJ

New Brunswick packs roughly 57,000 people into 5.23 square miles. That density changes the work. About 27 percent of the housing here sits in two, three and four unit buildings, and roughly a quarter of everything in the city was built before 1940. Add in the fact that four out of five households rent, and most roofing calls in this city come from an owner who is not living under the roof in question.That means the job has to be scheduled around tenants, not around an empty house. It means dumpster placement has to clear residential permit parking, which New Brunswick enforces ward by ward with published street lists. It means a Fifth Ward twin on a twenty-five foot lot gets staged completely differently from a detached colonial in Edgebrook. We plan that part before the truck shows up, not after.We work across the city. Downtown and Hiram Square, the Fifth and Sixth Wards, Easton Avenue and Buccleuch Park, Lincoln Park, Feaster Park, Raritan Gardens, Edgebrook, the Remsen Avenue corridor, Unity Square, and the French Street neighborhoods. The residential ZIP here is 08901. Note that 08902 is North Brunswick and 08904 is Highland Park, so a listing or a quote that lumps them together is a sign the contractor is not local.

Around 85 percent of New Brunswick’s housing predates 1978. The Livingston Avenue Historic District between Hale and Morris Streets holds 58 contributing buildings built mostly between 1870 and 1929, and the roof forms there run to mansard, gambrel and the broken Queen Anne rooflines that came with them. Those are not shingle-over jobs. They need the flashing, the transitions and the sequencing worked out in advance.One thing worth knowing if you own in that district. It is a National Register listing, not a local ordinance, so it does not by itself require historic review to replace a roof on a privately owned home. You are free to do the work. It just needs a contractor who has handled the details before.Older buildings across the city carry the same set of questions. How many layers are already up there. Whether the deck under them is skip sheathing or plank. Whether the chimney flashing has ever been cut into the mortar or has only been caulked. We check all of it before we quote, because those are the items that turn a clean job into a change order.