Roofing in Irvington, NJ
Lightning Construction installs and repairs roofing in Irvington, New Jersey — a veteran-owned, GAF-certified contractor covering Essex County with no deposit, no change orders and a 4.9-star rating from 264 reviews. Expect $9,000 to $22,000 for most homes in town.
Roofing in Irvington, house by house.
Housing here dates to 1960 at the median, across roughly 25,155 units. Close to 80% of them predate 1980.
Plywood sheathing arrived in these years, but so did the multi-level roofline that makes these houses leak in predictable places. Done properly, those junctions stop being a maintenance item; done with sealant, they come back every few years.
Attached and multi-family housing dominates here, so most roofs are low-slope rather than shingled — modified bitumen, TPO and EPDM — and the job gets staged from the street. We price it as flat roofing because that is what it is.
Irvington packs roughly 60,867 people into about 3 square miles, so staging a job here means working off the street and keeping the sidewalk clear. The township dates to 1874.
What we build against here
Essex County is one of the most varied counties in the state, from Newark's rowhouses to hillside estates, and Irvington is part of it. The weather that damages houses here is not dramatic — it is the freeze-thaw cycle, repeating all winter. Every cycle widens whatever gap the last one made. A nail pop becomes a leak, a hairline split in flashing becomes a stained ceiling, and none of it happens fast enough to notice. Flashing and underlayment are what stop it, and both are invisible once the job is done — which is exactly why they get skipped.
What Irvington homeowners get from us
- No deposit; payment comes after the work does
- No change orders; the written number is the number
- GAF-certified, licensed and insured, NJ HIC 13VH12437000
- Free inspection and a written estimate, with no pressure
- Permits pulled through the Irvington construction office
- 31 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
Irvington pricing, and what moves it.
Most roofing projects in Irvington land between $9,000 and $22,000. 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 Irvington is valued at about $340,000. 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 Irvington township.
Irvington and the streets around it.
Within the township we cover Irving Place. Zip code 07111 are all inside our normal service area. Irvington borders Maplewood, Newark and Hillside, and we are on those streets most weeks of the year.
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“Honest about everything. They showed up on time, kept the property clean, and the roof came out amazing. Made everything stress free.”
Straight answers.
Roofing in Irvington typically runs $9,000 to $22,000. 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 1960, 80% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Irvington sees more of that variation than a newer town would. We work that out at the inspection, not after the job starts.
You do, and we take care of it. Permits for a roof come from the Irvington construction office under the state Uniform Construction Code, and we pull the permit, schedule the inspection and meet the inspector ourselves.
Not harder, but less predictable. About 80% of homes in Irvington 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.
Most residential roofs are torn off and replaced in a single day — crews start early, strip, dry-in and finish the same afternoon. Irvington is about 31 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 18% of Irvington 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 Irvington, you look at it, then you pay. Financing is available and does not change what we quoted.
We are a veteran-owned NJ contractor — HIC 13VH12437000, GAF-certified, 4.9 stars from 264 reviews — working throughout Essex County, including Maplewood, Newark and Hillside. You pay nothing up front and the quoted number is the number.
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