Clifton Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Elmwood Park, NJ — Bergen County, population 21,422. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Elmwood Park homes and businesses.
Elmwood Park property owners near the Saddle River corridor, the Route 46 frontage at Broadway count on Clifton Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Elmwood Park. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Clifton to every job in Elmwood Park, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 397-8306 for a free roofing estimate in Elmwood Park, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Elmwood Park, NJ
Eighteen percent of the housing in Elmwood Park went up in the 1940s. Only Saddle Brook, at 18.1 percent, records a larger wartime and immediate post-war decade anywhere in this footprint. That is a specific kind of house: modest, quickly built, and sheathed in spaced 1x6 boards rather than plywood because sheet goods were scarce when the roof frame went on.
Which is why the plywood overlay is a real line on our estimates here and not a padding item. Where the gaps between boards measure wide, a 3/8-inch overlay across the deck is what gives the fasteners something to hold. We price it per sheet in the proposal so the number does not move once the covering is off.
The borough is otherwise newer than its neighbors. Median year built is 1958, only 11.1 percent predates 1940, and 45.3 percent of the 7,765 units are detached houses with 27.7 percent in two-unit buildings. Owner occupancy is 57.5 percent and most lots along the Route 46 frontage at Broadway have a usable driveway.
For a detached one- or two-family that means no permit for the covering. N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7 lists it as ordinary maintenance, exempt from application, inspection and notice, and the same rule exempts repair or replacement of exterior gutters and leaders on any building at all. Sheathing replacement is a different animal and leaves the exemption behind.
The storm record here is wind and lightning on the same night. On 23 July 2010 an estimated 61 mph gust brought trees and wires down at Lincoln Avenue and Elm Street, on Summit and Obal Avenues and across Grant, Roth and Market Streets, while lightning struck a tree in the borough that fell onto a vehicle.
The Saddle River corridor supplies the water. On 3 August 2019 vehicles were stranded on River Drive at Columbia Street and a basement on Orchard Street between Mola Boulevard and Spruce Street took three to four feet. Ventilation correction and outlet sizing are the two items we find undersized most often on this stock.
What we will not do is sell you a replacement you do not need. If the covering has years left, we would rather write that down, fix the ventilation, and come back when the roof is genuinely finished. Written questions to leads@cliftonroofpros.com get a written answer, with photographs attached.
Our roofing scope in Elmwood Park
Clifton Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Elmwood Park that we do in Clifton — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — Almost every house in Clifton has a low-slope roof even if nobody calls it one. The rear extension, the porch, the back room added in 1968, the flat deck over a side entry.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail reaches Passaic County a few times a decade rather than a few times a year. The honest starting position on a Clifton roof, then, is that what you are looking at is probably age, and our job is to establish which of the two it is.
- Insurance Claim Help — We do not adjust claims and we are not your public adjuster. What we hand you is a file good enough that the argument is about the roof rather than about what anyone can prove.
- Metal Roofing — We install metal, and on most Clifton houses we will argue you out of a metal field roof. The objection is not the product.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most Clifton leaks get solved from the inside, and the reason is geography. Half the wall you would want to stand back and study faces a neighbor's driveway, and we are not standing on that driveway without being asked.
- Roof Skylight Installation — This is the page where we push a product rather than talk somebody out of one. On a Clifton two-family the middle bedroom, the interior bath and the third-floor stair hall often have no exterior wall at all, so the roof is the only clear view of sky.
See the full list of Clifton services, or call (855) 397-8306.
About Elmwood Park, NJ — and why local matters here
Elmwood Park sits in Bergen County with a population of roughly 21,422, close enough to Clifton that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Saddle River corridor, the Route 46 frontage at Broadway.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Elmwood Park properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Bergen County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Elmwood Park
Call (855) 397-8306 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Elmwood Park, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Lodi, NJ and the rest of the north Jersey inner ring. Everything starts at the Clifton Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Elmwood Park: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Lodi, NJ and the north Jersey inner ring.