Jersey City is the second-largest city in New Jersey and one of the most roofing-distinct: the housing is dominated by attached brownstones, brick row houses, and multi-family buildings, most with flat or low-slope roofs rather than the pitched asphalt you see in the suburbs. That makes membrane roofing — TPO, EPDM, and modified bitumen — the bread and butter of roofing work here.
Housing in Jersey City
Brownstone and brick row houses downtown and in the Heights, larger multi-family and mixed-use buildings throughout, and newer mid-rise condos along the waterfront. Almost all of it is flat or low-slope, which means seams and flashings — not shingles — are where roofs live and die in Jersey City.
What we most commonly find on Jersey City roofs
- Failed flat-roof seams on brownstones and row houses
- Old built-up tar-and-gravel roofs at end of life
- Parapet wall and coping flashing failures on attached buildings
- Ponding water on under-sloped low-slope roofs
- Shared-wall leak diagnosis between attached units
Why we work in Jersey City
Jersey City is a flat-roof town, and flat roofs are won or lost on the details — welded TPO seams, proper parapet flashing, real slope to the drains. That's exactly the work we specialize in, and it's a short run down Route 1&9 from our Clifton shop.
Familiar landmarks
Liberty State Park · Journal Square · Newport waterfront · Hudson River waterfront
