How a Elizabeth job runs, step by step: free quote, written scope, written quote, sign-off - and the cheaper option named when there is one.
Free inspection, the permit position in writing, then a written quote. No obligation, no curbside numbers.
Tell us the address and whether the house is detached, attached or has more than two units. That one answer already tells us whether this is permitted work, which is usually the first thing you want to know.
Both together. The covering tells you what has happened; the underside of the deck and the eaves tell you how far it has got and whether an ice barrier was ever there. Layer count gets checked at the rake edge while we are up.
Named details, not 'replace roof'. Ice barrier coverage, drip edge, underlayment, nailing, and decking priced per sheet. The permit position is stated in writing, including when the honest answer is that none is needed.
Frontage and waste route agreed before the day, nails swept, and a before-and-after set that is yours to keep whatever you decide to do next.
Published Union County ranges, with your written quote after the visit.
$12,000-18,000 on a 2,000 sq ft house.
Plus a permit, which is not optional here.
Three-tab to architectural, installed.
Epdm $5-9, tpo $6-12, installed.
Standing seam, installed.
Mostly low slope, permit always.
It comes up twice in what people search for here, and it is Florida's. What actually decides this in New Jersey is simpler.
Florida Building Code, Existing Building, section 706.1.1: not more than a quarter of a roof area repaired, replaced or recovered in twelve months unless the whole system is brought up to current code. It is quoted nationally because it sounds like a principle. It is not New Jersey law and nobody here has to comply with it.
Look away from the leak. If the covering across the rest of the slope still lies flat, still holds its granules and is not brittle, the roof has life in it and the repair is the right job. A failed flashing, a split upstand or a lifted course is hundreds of dollars, and each is routinely produced as proof the whole roof is finished.
Two coverings is the practical ceiling. A roof already at two is a tear-off whatever anybody quotes. It takes two minutes to check at the rake edge and it is the fastest way to tell whether the quotes in front of you are describing the same job.
On an attached house a repair can be ordinary maintenance while the replacement is permitted work -- so the smaller job is also the faster one. That is worth knowing on a marginal roof. It should not decide a clear one.
Worth knowing before you start calling round, and worth building into anything with a date attached to it.
Northern roofs do not fail gradually through a dry summer the way southern ones do. They fail at the edges in the freeze: water backs up under the courses at the eaves, freezes, lifts them, and the ceiling below stains during the first thaw. That means the calls arrive in a cluster, in the same two weeks, and the roof that could have been done comfortably in September becomes an emergency in February.
The second clock is the permit, and it only runs on some buildings. A detached one- or two-family house is ordinary maintenance and can be booked as soon as there is a crew. An attached house or a three-family needs a construction permit and an inspection, and those are days that belong in the plan rather than in a surprise. We tell you which you are at the survey.
A free written quote, no obligation.