Siding in Union City, NJ
Lightning Construction installs and repairs siding in Union City, New Jersey — a veteran-owned, GAF-certified contractor covering Hudson County with no deposit, no change orders and a 4.9-star rating from 264 reviews. Most Union City projects run $10,000 to $22,000.
Siding in Union City, house by house.
The typical home in Union City was built in 1961, and of the 27,408 housing units here the median sits squarely through the 1960s and early 1970s. Close to 71% of them predate 1980. A little over 32% were standing before 1940.
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.
Most buildings here are attached or multi-family, so siding work is usually one elevation, a party-wall return or a rear addition rather than a whole-house wrap, with staging off the street.
With owner-occupancy at roughly 19%, most buildings in Union City 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 5% of homes here are detached, which is why so much of the roofing in town is low-slope rather than shingled.
The conditions this work has to survive
This is Hudson County: the most densely built county in New Jersey, where most roofs are flat and most walls are shared. 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 is included, every time
- $0 down — we invoice when the job is complete
- The quote is the price — we do not write change orders
- GAF-certified crews, NJ Home Improvement Contractor 13VH12437000
- A free inspection and an itemized written estimate, no sales pitch
- Permits pulled through the Union City construction office
- 37 miles from our Manalapan base — crews here most weeks
Union City pricing, and what moves it.
Most siding projects in Union City 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 Union City 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 Union City city.
Union City and the streets around it.
Zip code 07087 are all inside our normal service area. Union City borders Hoboken, Jersey City, North Bergen, Weehawken and West New York, and we are on those streets most weeks of the year.
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Straight answers.
Siding in Union City 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, 71% of the stock built before 1980 and a lot of attached and multi-family building, Union City sees more of that variation than a newer town would. We work that out at the inspection, not after the job starts.
Yes. New Jersey issues construction permits at the municipal level, so a siding in Union City 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 71% of Union City 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. Union City is about 37 miles from our Manalapan base, well inside the area our crews cover daily.
Yes. Only about 5% of Union City 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.
Nothing up front. We finish the job in Union City, you look at it, then you pay. Financing is available and does not change what we quoted.
We are a veteran-owned NJ contractor — HIC 13VH12437000, GAF-certified, 4.9 stars from 264 reviews — working throughout Hudson County, including Hoboken, Jersey City and North Bergen. You pay nothing up front and the quoted number is the number.
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