Siding in Edgewater, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned siding contractor serving Edgewater, 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. Typical Edgewater jobs land between $16,000 and $38,000.
The Edgewater houses we work on.
Edgewater counts about 7,872 housing units, and the median one went up in 1992 — in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Original builder-grade vinyl on homes of this age is usually still on the wall but no longer doing much for the house. These walls usually need replacing for appearance and thickness rather than outright failure.
With attached and multi-family housing making up most of the stock, siding work here is usually a front elevation, a party-wall return or a rear addition rather than a whole-house wrap, and staging comes off the street.
With owner-occupancy at roughly 40%, most buildings in Edgewater 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 6% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled. Roughly 39% of the housing here went up since 2000, which is a lot of newer construction reaching the age where builder-grade materials start showing their limits.
The conditions this work has to survive
This is Bergen County: New Jersey's most populous county, running from the Hudson palisades out to Ramapo foothills. The weather that damages houses here is not dramatic — it is the freeze-thaw cycle, repeating all winter. 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. Behind siding it shows up as sheathing that has been quietly wet every winter for a decade.
What Edgewater homeowners get from us
- Nothing due up front — you pay when the job is finished
- No mid-job add-ons, ever
- GAF-certified crews, NJ Home Improvement Contractor 13VH12437000
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the Edgewater construction office
- 42 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What siding costs in Edgewater.
Most siding projects in Edgewater land between $16,000 and $38,000. Most homes in town sit in the middle of that band; the top of it is larger houses and premium materials. For context, the median home in Edgewater is valued at about $720,000. 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 Edgewater borough.
Our coverage in and around Edgewater.
We work throughout ZIP code 07020. Immediate neighbors are Cliffside Park, Fort Lee and North Bergen, and we work in every one.
More for your Edgewater home.
Recent Lightning projects around Edgewater.
“Honest about everything. They showed up on time, kept the property clean, and the roof came out amazing. Made everything stress free.”
Straight answers.
Siding in Edgewater typically runs $16,000 to $38,000. 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 1992, 30% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Edgewater 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 Edgewater'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.
The median Edgewater home dates to 1992.
One to three days for a typical house here. Edgewater is about 42 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 6% of Edgewater 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.
No deposit, in Edgewater 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.
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 Cliffside Park, Fort Lee and North Bergen, take no deposit, and write no change orders.
Siding in Edgewater?
Free inspection, a written estimate, nothing down, no pressure — for your Edgewater home.