Roofing in Shrewsbury, NJ
Lightning Construction handles roofing across Shrewsbury, New Jersey — a Monmouth County town of about 493 homes with a median build year of 1957 — veteran-owned, GAF-certified, no deposit and no change orders. Most Shrewsbury projects run $9,000 to $22,000.
Roofing in Shrewsbury, house by house.
Housing here dates to 1957 at the median, across roughly 493 units. Close to 84% of them predate 1980.
These are small, simple roofs on small, simple houses, sheathed in planks and originally vented through the gable ends alone. The work is usually straightforward once the old layers are off; getting them off is what takes the day.
Most of the housing here is attached or multi-family, which means low-slope roofs rather than shingled ones — modified bitumen, TPO and EPDM — and a job that has to be staged off the street rather than a driveway. We price that work as flat roofing, because that is what it is.
Shrewsbury covers about 2 square miles and is home to roughly 1,156 people. Shrewsbury has been its own township since 1926. It was carved out of Shrewsbury Township.
The conditions this work has to survive
This is Monmouth County: inland horse country on one side and the northern shore on the other. 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. Flashing and underlayment are what stop it, and both are invisible once the job is done — which is exactly why they get skipped.
How we work in this town
- No deposit; payment comes after the work does
- No change orders; the written number is the number
- GAF-certified crews, NJ Home Improvement Contractor 13VH12437000
- Free inspection and a written estimate, with no pressure
- Permits pulled through the Shrewsbury construction office
- 15 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What you should expect to pay in Shrewsbury.
Most roofing projects in Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury is valued at about $170,000. 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 Shrewsbury township.
Our coverage in and around Shrewsbury.
Zip code 07702 are all inside our normal service area. Shrewsbury borders Eatontown, Little Silver, Oceanport, Red Bank and Shrewsbury Township, and we are on those streets most weeks of the year.
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Straight answers.
Roofing in Shrewsbury 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 1957, 84% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Shrewsbury sees more of that variation than a newer town would. We work that out at the inspection, not after the job starts.
Yes. New Jersey issues construction permits at the municipal level, so a roof in Shrewsbury is permitted through the local construction office under the state Uniform Construction Code. We pull it and meet the inspector; you file nothing.
Not harder, but less predictable. About 84% of homes in Shrewsbury 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.
One day, for the large majority of houses. The crew arrives at first light, strips the old roof, dries the deck in and finishes before dark. Shrewsbury is about 15 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 4% of Shrewsbury 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.
You pay when the work is done and you are satisfied with it — there is no deposit and no progress payment. Financing exists if you want it, at the same price.
We are a veteran-owned NJ contractor — HIC 13VH12437000, GAF-certified, 4.9 stars from 264 reviews — working throughout Monmouth County, including Eatontown, Little Silver and Oceanport. You pay nothing up front and the quoted number is the number.
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Free inspection, a written estimate, nothing down, no pressure — for your Shrewsbury home.