Roofing Contractor in Bergen County, NJ

Bergen County homes and the roofs on them

Bergen's housing runs in bands. The older towns near the Hudson and through the Northern Valley, like Englewood, Teaneck, Tenafly and Ridgewood, are full of colonials, Tudors and Victorians from the 1900s to the 1940s. Many still carry slate or clay tile on at least part of the house, with masonry chimneys and flashing that is now decades old. Radburn in Fair Lawn, planned in 1929, and the post-war boom that followed filled towns like Paramus, Bergenfield and Fair Lawn with capes, ranches and split-levels under asphalt shingles, many of them now on their second or third roof.

Further north and west, in Mahwah, Ramsey, Franklin Lakes and Saddle River, larger homes from the 1970s on have big, cut-up roofs with long valleys and several chimneys. Along the Palisades in Fort Lee, Cliffside Park and Edgewater, older two-family homes and multi-family buildings add a lot of flat and low-slope roofs. Each of those groups fails in its own way, which is why our town pages go into the detail.