Siding in Elmwood Park, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned siding contractor serving Elmwood Park, 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 Elmwood Park jobs land between $10,000 and $22,000.
The Elmwood Park houses we work on.
Elmwood Park counts about 7,765 housing units, and the median one went up in 1958 — in the postwar building boom. Close to 78% of them predate 1980.
Pull the siding off one of these and you generally find sheathing straight to the studs, with nothing behind it. Re-siding one of these is the rare exterior job that actually changes what the house costs to heat.
Between the single-family houses and the two- and three-families, wall areas here vary enormously — which is why siding estimates in town range more widely than people expect.
Owner-occupancy runs around 58% in Elmwood Park, 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.
Local conditions we build for
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. 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. Behind siding it shows up as sheathing that has been quietly wet every winter for a decade. Properties near Passaic River and Saddle Brook also sit lower and stay damper, and that shows up first at the roof edge and in the basement.
What Elmwood Park homeowners get from us
- $0 down — we invoice when the job is complete
- No mid-job add-ons, ever
- Licensed and insured in New Jersey, HIC 13VH12437000, GAF-certified
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the Elmwood Park construction office
- 44 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What siding costs in Elmwood Park.
Most siding projects in Elmwood Park land between $10,000 and $22,000. That band covers essentially every house in town. Which end yours falls at is decided at the inspection, not after the work starts. For context, the median home in Elmwood Park is valued at about $480,000. 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 Elmwood Park borough.
Elmwood Park and the streets around it.
Within the town we cover Dundee Lake and Passaic Junction. That covers ZIP code 07407. Elmwood Park borders Paterson, Clifton, Fair Lawn, Saddle Brook and Garfield, 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.
Siding in Elmwood Park typically runs $10,000 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 1958 and 78% of the stock built before 1980, Elmwood Park sees more of that variation than a newer town would. That is all visible at the free inspection, so the written number accounts for it.
Yes. New Jersey issues construction permits at the municipal level, so a siding in Elmwood Park is permitted through the local construction office under the state Uniform Construction Code. We pull it and meet the inspector; you file nothing.
Older houses hold more surprises, which is exactly why we look before we quote. Around 78% of the housing in Elmwood Park is pre-1980, and that vintage often means decking or flashing work on top of the covering itself.
One to three days for a typical house here. Elmwood Park is about 44 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Indirectly, yes. Properties near Passaic River 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.
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.
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 Paterson, Clifton and Fair Lawn, take no deposit, and write no change orders.
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