Gutters in Collingswood, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned gutters contractor serving Collingswood, New Jersey and the rest of Camden County — GAF-certified, rated 4.9 stars across 264 reviews, with nothing due up front and no change orders. Typical Collingswood jobs land between $1,200 and $3,500.
What gutter work in Collingswood usually means.
Collingswood counts about 6,901 housing units, and the median one went up in 1941 — in the postwar building boom. Close to 91% of them predate 1980. A little over 49% were standing before 1940.
Gutters here are retrofits, usually fitted decades ago to a roof that has since gained a dormer or a rear addition. Re-pitching and adding a downspout solves most complaints on these houses without replacing anything.
Two- and three-family homes drain a lot of roof into short runs with very little room for downspouts, so outlet placement matters more here than trough size.
The borough dates to 1888.
The conditions this work has to survive
This is Camden County: a dense inner ring across the river from Philadelphia, thinning into farmland to the east. Nothing extreme happens to roofs in this part of the state. What happens instead is water freezing and thawing, night after night. The mechanism is slow and cumulative: water enters a small defect, expands as it freezes, and leaves the defect slightly larger than it found it. It is also what pulls gutters off a fascia — ice loads a trough far beyond what water alone ever would.
What the estimate covers
- $0 down — we invoice when the job is complete
- The quote is the price — we do not write change orders
- GAF-certified, licensed and insured, NJ HIC 13VH12437000
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the Collingswood construction office
- 46 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What you should expect to pay in Collingswood.
Most gutter work projects in Collingswood land between $1,200 and $3,500. The lower half of that range covers most straightforward houses in town; the upper half is where you get into steep pitches, multiple layers to remove, or decking that has to be replaced. For context, the median home in Collingswood is valued at about $380,000. The number on your estimate is the number you pay — we do not write change orders.
Housing figures are American Community Survey 2024 five-year estimates for Collingswood borough.
Collingswood and the streets around it.
Within the town we cover Knight Park. Zip codes 08107 and 08108 are all inside our normal service area. Immediate neighbors are Camden, Cherry Hill, Haddon Township, Oaklyn and Pennsauken Township, and we work in every one.
More for your Collingswood home.
Recent Lightning projects around Collingswood.
“Honest about everything. They showed up on time, kept the property clean, and the roof came out amazing. Made everything stress free.”
Straight answers.
Gutter work in Collingswood typically runs $1,200 to $3,500. What moves a given house within that band is size, pitch and what is already on the roof — and with a median build year of 1941, 91% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Collingswood sees more of that variation than a newer town would. That is all visible at the free inspection, so the written number accounts for it.
Yes — this work is permitted by Collingswood's own construction office under New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code. Handling the permit and the inspection is part of what we do, and it is already in the price.
Older houses hold more surprises, which is exactly why we look before we quote. Around 91% of the housing in Collingswood is pre-1980, and that vintage often means decking or flashing work on top of the covering itself.
Usually a day or two; larger homes run to three. Collingswood is about 46 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
No deposit, in Collingswood or anywhere else we work. Nothing is due until the job is finished and you have walked it with us. Financing is available if you would rather spread the cost, and it does not change the quoted price.
Three things separate us: no deposit, no change orders, and a written price that holds. We are GAF-certified, veteran-owned, NJ HIC 13VH12437000, rated 4.9 from 264 reviews, and we work across Camden County, including Camden, Cherry Hill and Haddon.
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