Siding in New Brunswick, NJ
Lightning Construction is a veteran-owned siding contractor serving New Brunswick, New Jersey and the rest of Middlesex County — GAF-certified, rated 4.9 stars across 264 reviews, with nothing due up front and no change orders. Most New Brunswick projects run $10,000 to $22,000.
What siding in New Brunswick usually means.
Housing here dates to 1968 at the median, across roughly 16,854 units. Something like 62% went up before 1980. Around 26% of homes here predate 1940 entirely.
Aluminum and first-generation vinyl went onto these homes decades ago, over sheathing with nothing behind it. Whatever went on in the seventies is now well past its service life, and the sheathing behind it has never been protected.
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 21%, most buildings in New Brunswick 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 21% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled.
Local conditions we build for
Middlesex County is one of the busiest and most diverse counties in the state, built out in every decade since the war, and New Brunswick is part of it. 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. Behind siding it shows up as sheathing that has been quietly wet every winter for a decade.
What New Brunswick homeowners get from us
- No deposit; payment comes after the work does
- 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 New Brunswick construction office
- 14 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
What you should expect to pay in New Brunswick.
Most siding projects in New Brunswick land between $10,000 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 New Brunswick is valued at about $350,000. 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 New Brunswick city.
Who we cover near New Brunswick.
Zip codes 08901, 08903, 08906, 08933 and 08989 are all inside our normal service area. New Brunswick borders North Brunswick and East Brunswick, and we are on those streets most weeks of the year.
More for your New Brunswick home.
Recent Lightning projects around New Brunswick.
“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 New Brunswick 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 1968, 62% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, New Brunswick 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 New Brunswick'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.
Not harder, but less predictable. About 62% of homes in New Brunswick 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 to three days for a typical house here. New Brunswick is about 14 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 21% of New Brunswick 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 New Brunswick 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 Middlesex County, including North Brunswick, East Brunswick and Piscataway. 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 New Brunswick home.