Siding in North Bergen, NJ
Lightning Construction handles siding across North Bergen, New Jersey — a Hudson County town of about 24,959 homes with a median build year of 1961 — veteran-owned, GAF-certified, no deposit and no change orders. Typical North Bergen jobs land between $10,000 and $22,000.
What siding in North Bergen actually involves.
The typical home across the township was built in 1961, and of the 24,959 housing units here the median sits squarely through the 1960s and early 1970s. About 75% of the stock is pre-1980. Around 30% of homes here predate 1940 entirely.
Most houses from this stretch are on their second skin already — aluminum in the 1960s and 1970s, early vinyl after that. 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.
Owner-occupancy runs around 42% in North Bergen, 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 18% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled.
What North Bergen weather does to a house
North Bergen sits in Hudson County — the most densely built county in New Jersey, where most roofs are flat and most walls are shared. 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. Properties near Hackensack River and Hudson River also sit lower and stay damper, and that shows up first at the roof edge and in the basement.
What is included, every time
- Nothing due up front — you pay when the job is finished
- No mid-job add-ons, ever
- GAF-certified, licensed and insured, NJ HIC 13VH12437000
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the North Bergen construction office
- 39 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
North Bergen pricing, and what moves it.
Most siding projects in North Bergen 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 North Bergen is valued at about $470,000. 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 North Bergen township.
Our coverage in and around North Bergen.
Within the township we cover Homestead, Granton, Hudson Heights, New Durham, Shadyside and Three Pigeons. That covers ZIP code 07047.
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Straight answers.
Siding in North Bergen 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 1961, 75% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, North Bergen sees more of that variation than a newer town would. We work that out at the inspection, not after the job starts.
You do, and we take care of it. Permits for a siding come from the North Bergen construction office under the state Uniform Construction Code, and we pull the permit, schedule the inspection and meet the inspector ourselves.
It changes what we look for. With roughly 75% of North Bergen 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. North Bergen is about 39 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do here — owner-occupancy in North Bergen runs about 42%, so most buildings are owned by someone other than the occupant. We quote per building, schedule around tenants, and the no-deposit terms are the same.
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 Hudson County, including West New York, Guttenberg and Weehawken. You pay nothing up front and the quoted number is the number.
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