Colonial Roof Service takes calls from 18 towns and cities across North and Central Jersey, from Bergenfield to Red Bank. Each has its own housing stock, weather exposure and construction office.
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Colonial Roof Service is a phone line that connects homeowners across North and Central Jersey with independent local roofing contractors. Housing age, roof style and local permit offices vary from town to town, as the notes below show.
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Newark (07102, Essex County) has many older two- and three-family frame houses on close-set lots, where two or three existing layers usually mean a full tear-off.
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Jersey City (07302, Hudson County) brownstones and rowhouses often have flat or low-slope roofs that depend on parapet and coping flashing.
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Edison (08817) grew from about 16,000 residents in 1950 to nearly 45,000 by 1960, leaving Capes with finished second floors and split-levels with step flashing at every wall joint.
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Bridgewater (08807, Somerset County) has many 1980s and 1990s colonials still on their first roof, and shaded slopes in hilly Martinsville that stay damp.
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Freehold (07728): the Borough and the Township have separate construction offices, and the Borough's historic commission covers its Downtown, Broad Street and Peach Orchard districts.
Middletown (07748) Bayshore sections such as Belford, Port Monmouth and Leonardo take more wind than inland Lincroft, and homes raised after Sandy sit higher and more exposed.
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Elizabeth (07201, Union County) mixes pitched frame houses with flat roofs over rear additions and brick buildings, and downspouts often empty onto shared driveways.
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Woodbridge (07095, Middlesex County) has ten sections, from Avenel and Colonia to Port Reading and Sewaren, all under one township building office.
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Union (07083, Union County) roughly doubled in population between 1940 and 1960, and its Cape Cod dormers create the valleys and wall joints where leaks start.
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Westfield (07090) colonials and Tudors have steep pitches, and the Kimball Avenue Historic District falls under the town's Historic Preservation Commission.
Hackettstown (07840, Warren County) sees ice dams after a few days of snow and hard cold, and older homes near Main Street and Centenary University often need deck checks.
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Flemington (08822) is the Hunterdon County seat; Raritan Township wraps around the borough and shares its mailing address, so check which construction office applies.
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Summit (07901, Union County) has about 39 percent of its homes built before 1940, and some still carry slate or clay tile, which is specialist work.
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Plainfield (07060) has Italianate and other ornate rooflines across ten historic districts, and pre-1940s homes often have plank sheathing that needs checking after tear-off.
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New Brunswick (08901) is mostly rented homes, so tenant notice, parking and dumpster placement need settling before work starts on a narrow lot.
Red Bank (07701) has roughly a third of its housing built before 1940, with steep Victorian roofs and the Broad Street and Washington Street historic districts.
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Bergenfield (07621, Bergen County) Cape Cods have knee-wall attics that are often poorly ventilated, which leads to ice dams and shorter shingle life.
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Basking Ridge (07920) is part of Bernards Township with Liberty Corner, Lyons and West Millington, and larger 1980s and '90s homes there have many valleys and dormers.
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