Metal Roofing in Lodi, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned metal roofing contractor serving Lodi, New Jersey and the rest of Bergen County — GAF-certified, rated 4.9 stars across 264 reviews, with nothing due up front and no change orders. Most Lodi projects run $18,000 to $35,000.
Metal roofing in Lodi, house by house.
Lodi counts about 10,108 housing units, and the median one went up in 1958 — in the postwar building boom. Roughly 83% were standing before 1980.
These roofs are simple enough that metal goes on efficiently, which keeps the labor side of the price down. Very little cutting is where the labor cost in metal actually lives, and these roofs need almost none.
Attached housing here is mostly low-slope, so standing seam applies to the pitched front sections and dormers rather than the main roof.
Owner-occupancy runs around 42% in Lodi, so a good share of the work here is for landlords and small property owners. Those jobs get the same written number and the same crews; they just tend to move faster. Only about 23% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled. Lodi packs roughly 26,082 people into about 2 square miles, so staging a job here means working off the street and keeping the sidewalk clear.
What Lodi weather does to a house
This is Bergen County: New Jersey's most populous county, running from the Hudson palisades out to Ramapo foothills. Nothing extreme happens to roofs in this part of the state. What happens instead is water freezing and thawing, night after night. Water gets into a small opening, freezes, widens it, and comes back the next night. Over a few seasons that is what turns a nail pop into a leak, and a hairline crack in flashing into a stained ceiling. Metal is largely indifferent to it, which is a good part of why it outlasts asphalt by decades. Ground near Saddle Brook holds water longer, which puts more demand on drainage than a drier lot half a mile away.
What is included, every time
- $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
- Free, unhurried inspection and a written number the same visit
- Permits pulled through the Lodi construction office
- 43 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What metal roofing costs in Lodi.
Most metal roofing projects in Lodi land between $18,000 and $35,000. 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 Lodi is valued at about $480,000. Attached and multi-family buildings price differently again, and we quote those per building rather than per unit. 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 Lodi borough.
Lodi and the streets around it.
Zip code 07644 are all inside our normal service area. Immediate neighbors are Garfield, Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Maywood and Rochelle Park, and we work in every one.
More for your Lodi home.
Recent Lightning projects around Lodi.
“Honest about everything. They showed up on time, kept the property clean, and the roof came out amazing. Made everything stress free.”
Straight answers.
Metal roofing in Lodi typically runs $18,000 to $35,000. 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 1958, 83% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Lodi sees more of that variation than a newer town would. We work that out at the inspection, not after the job starts.
Yes — this work is permitted by Lodi'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.
Not harder, but less predictable. About 83% of homes in Lodi were built before 1980, and on houses that age we regularly find board decking, more than one layer of shingle, or flashing that was never done properly. We inspect for all three before quoting.
Longer than an asphalt roof: two to four days for most houses, because every panel is measured, formed and seamed rather than nailed through the face. Lodi is about 43 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Indirectly, yes. Properties near Saddle Brook sit lower and stay damper, which speeds up moss and algae growth on shaded slopes and puts more demand on gutters and downspouts than a drier lot a mile away.
Nothing up front. We finish the job in Lodi, you look at it, then you pay. Financing is available and does not change what we quoted.
Lightning Construction is veteran-owned and GAF-certified, registered in New Jersey as Home Improvement Contractor 13VH12437000, and rated 4.9 stars across 264 Google reviews. We cover Bergen County, including Garfield, Hackensack and Hasbrouck Heights, take no deposit, and write no change orders.
Metal Roofing near Lodi.
Metal Roofing in Lodi?
Free inspection, a written estimate, nothing down, no pressure — for your Lodi home.