Siding in Garfield, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned siding contractor serving Garfield, 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 Garfield jobs land between $10,000 and $22,000.
The Garfield houses we work on.
Housing here dates to 1954 at the median, across roughly 11,846 units. Roughly 81% were standing before 1980. Around 30% of homes here predate 1940 entirely.
Homes from this era were built before anyone wrapped a house: bare sheathing, no moisture barrier, little or no wall insulation. The wall assembly gets rebuilt properly in the process, which is worth more than the new color.
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.
Owner-occupancy runs around 45% in Garfield, 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. Only about 21% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled.
What we build against here
This is Bergen County: New Jersey's most populous county, running from the Hudson palisades out to Ramapo foothills. Inland New Jersey does not have one dramatic weather problem; it has the freeze-thaw cycle, and it runs all winter. Water gets into a small opening, freezes, widens it, and comes back the next night. Over a few seasons that is what turns a nail pop into a leak, and a hairline crack in flashing into a stained ceiling. Behind siding it shows up as sheathing that has been quietly wet every winter for a decade. Ground near Saddle Brook and List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River holds water longer, which puts more demand on drainage than a drier lot half a mile away.
What is included, every time
- $0 down — we invoice when the job is complete
- 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 Garfield construction office
- 43 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
The cost of siding in Garfield.
Most siding projects in Garfield land between $10,000 and $22,000. The lower half of that range covers most straightforward houses in town; the upper half is where you get into steep pitches, multiple layers to remove, or decking that has to be replaced. For context, the median home in Garfield is valued at about $480,000. 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 Garfield city.
Our coverage in and around Garfield.
Within the town we cover Belmont, Bogart Heights, Dundee Dam and Plauderville. That covers ZIP code 07026. Immediate neighbors are Elmwood Park, Lodi, Saddle Brook and South Hackensack, and we work in every one.
More for your Garfield home.
Recent Lightning projects around Garfield.
“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 Garfield 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 1954, 81% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Garfield sees more of that variation than a newer town would. The inspection settles it before you get a number.
Yes. New Jersey issues construction permits at the municipal level, so a siding in Garfield is permitted through the local construction office under the state Uniform Construction Code. We pull it and meet the inspector; you file nothing.
It changes what we look for. With roughly 81% of Garfield housing predating 1980, plank decking, stacked layers and improvised flashing are all common — so the inspection covers them and the written estimate reflects whatever is actually there.
One to three days for a typical house here. Garfield is about 43 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Indirectly, yes. Properties near Saddle Brook 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.
No deposit, in Garfield 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.
We are a veteran-owned NJ contractor — HIC 13VH12437000, GAF-certified, 4.9 stars from 264 reviews — working throughout Bergen County, including Elmwood Park, Lodi and Saddle Brook. You pay nothing up front and the quoted number is the number.
Siding near Garfield.
Siding in Garfield?
Free inspection, a written estimate, nothing down, no pressure — for your Garfield home.