Mill-era housing stock
Nineteenth-century workers’ housing with layered roof histories - often three or four systems installed over one another across a century.
A dense mill-era city with some of the oldest continuously occupied housing in North Jersey, much of it attached and much of it carrying flat rear sections.
Plus every adjoining municipality - see the Passaic County page for all 16 areas we cover.
Paterson’s housing was built for a different century and has been extended repeatedly since. Every junction between those eras is a flashing decision.
Nineteenth-century workers’ housing with layered roof histories - often three or four systems installed over one another across a century.
Row and semi-detached homes carry flat rear sections that were often shingled below minimum slope. Those need a membrane system, not asphalt.
Shared walls between attached homes are the most common leak path we trace in this housing type, and the hardest to find without attic access.
Narrow frontages and street parking mean the dumpster and staging plan gets agreed before the crew arrives, not on the morning.
Yes - every ZIP code in Paterson: 07501, 07502, 07503, 07504, 07505, 07509, 07510, 07513, 07514, 07522, 07524, 07533, 07543, 07544. There is no part of the municipality we treat as out of area.
Active leaks are triaged the same day. In most cases we can be on site within twenty-four hours to make the building watertight, with the permanent repair scheduled once conditions allow.
The inspection and the written estimate that follows cost nothing and carry no obligation. You get photographs and a condition report either way.
Where Paterson requires a permit for roofing work we handle the application and schedule the municipal inspection as part of the job, priced into the estimate.
Send the details and we will confirm a time - usually the same week. You get a written condition report with photographs, not a verbal guess.
Tell us what the roof is doing and we will tell you what it needs - no pressure, no hard sell.