Metal Roofing in Paterson, NJ
Lightning Construction installs and repairs metal roofing in Paterson, New Jersey — a veteran-owned, GAF-certified contractor covering Passaic County with no deposit, no change orders and a 4.9-star rating from 264 reviews. Typical Paterson jobs land between $18,000 and $35,000.
What metal roofing in Paterson actually involves.
The typical home in Paterson was built in 1954, and of the 52,519 housing units here the median sits squarely in the postwar building boom. Close to 77% of them predate 1980. Around 33% of homes here predate 1940 entirely.
Small, uncomplicated roofs are where metal prices most competitively against asphalt. 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.
With owner-occupancy at roughly 27%, most buildings in Paterson are owned by someone other than the occupant. We are used to that — scheduling around tenants, and quoting per building rather than per unit. Only about 16% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled. Paterson packs roughly 158,735 people into about 9 square miles, so staging a job here means working off the street and keeping the sidewalk clear.
The conditions this work has to survive
This is Passaic County: historic mill towns in the south and lake communities up in the highlands. Paterson sits in the part of the state that actually gets winter. Under New Jersey's construction code Passaic County is designed for 40 pounds per square foot of ground snow, among the highest figures in the state. The weight itself is rarely the problem; the problem is meltwater refreezing at a cold eave and backing up under the shingles. Metal sheds snow rather than holding it, which is a real advantage here — and the reason snow guards belong over doorways, walkways and driveways. Properties near Passaic River also sit lower and stay damper, and that shows up first at the roof edge and in the basement.
How we work in this town
- No deposit; payment comes after the work does
- No mid-job add-ons, ever
- GAF-certified, licensed and insured, NJ HIC 13VH12437000
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the Paterson construction office
- Ice-and-water protection specified for Passaic County's 40 psf snow load
Paterson pricing, and what moves it.
Most metal roofing projects in Paterson land between $18,000 and $35,000. Most jobs here come in below the midpoint. What pushes one higher is almost always something we can see before quoting — extra layers, a steep pitch, or soft decking. For context, the median home in Paterson is valued at about $360,000. 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 Paterson city and ground snow load is from New Jersey DCA Bulletin 19-1.
Our coverage in and around Paterson.
Zip codes 07501, 07502, 07503, 07504, 07505, 07509, 07510 and 07511 are all inside our normal service area. Paterson borders Hawthorne, Prospect Park, Totowa, Woodland Park and Elmwood Park, and we are on those streets most weeks of the year.
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Straight answers.
Metal roofing in Paterson 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 1954, 77% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Paterson sees more of that variation than a newer town would. The inspection settles it before you get a number.
Yes — this work is permitted by Paterson'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.
It does. Passaic County carries a design ground snow load of 40 pounds per square foot under New Jersey's construction code — among the highest in the state. In practice that means ice-and-water shield carried well up the eaves and a properly ventilated attic, because ice dams, not the weight itself, are what damage homes here.
Budget two to four days. Metal is formed on site and fitted panel by panel, which is slower than laying shingle courses and is why it lasts. Paterson is about 46 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 16% of Paterson housing is detached single-family, so most roofs in town are low-slope. We install modified bitumen, TPO and EPDM, and we price those as flat roofing rather than quoting a shingle price that was never going to apply.
Nothing up front. We finish the job in Paterson, 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 Passaic County, including Hawthorne, Woodland Park and Elmwood Park, take no deposit, and write no change orders.
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