Passaic County · New Jersey
Roofing in Clifton, New Jersey
Century Roofing serves homeowners and businesses in Clifton, New Jersey. Our office is in Carteret.
Clifton's neighborhoods vary enormously — the roofing question in Botany Village is not the roofing question in Montclair Heights — so we treat the estimate visit as a diagnosis rather than a template.
Call (201) 682-1155Clifton roofing conditions
Much of Clifton's residential stock was built between the 1920s and the 1960s. In the older sections that means plank decking rather than plywood — 1x6 boards with gaps that modern shingle fasteners can miss entirely if a crew is not paying attention.
When we tear off a roof on plank decking, we check every board's spacing and re-sheet where the gaps are too wide to hold a nail reliably. Skipping that step is why some roofs in these neighborhoods lose shingles years before they should.
Newer sections of the city and the commercial corridors along Route 3 and Route 46 bring a different set of jobs: low-slope commercial and retail roofs where the priority is keeping tenants dry and operating.
Services we perform most in Clifton
- Full replacements on 1920s–1960s homes, including deck re-sheeting where needed
- Ventilation corrections on houses with finished attic space
- Low-slope repair on retail and mixed-use buildings
- Storm damage assessment after high-wind events
- Chimney flashing on the many masonry chimneys in the older sections
Frequently asked questions
- Do you serve all of Clifton?
- Yes, across the city's neighborhoods. Our office is in Carteret; Clifton is part of our regular Passaic County coverage.
- My Clifton house has wood plank decking. Is that a problem?
- Not inherently — plenty of plank-decked roofs perform well. It does need to be evaluated at tear-off for board spacing and rot, and re-sheeted where fasteners cannot hold reliably.
- Do you do commercial work in Clifton?
- Yes, including retail, mixed-use, and light industrial low-slope roofs.
Roofing services in Clifton
Roof ReplacementReplacing a roof is the one home project where nearly all of the value is buried under the part you can see. The shingle is the least differentiated component on the job; the underlayment strategy, the flashing details, and the ventilation balance are what determine whether the roof reaches its rated life.
Roof RepairA roof repair is only worth paying for if it addresses the thing that is actually failing. A surprising number of the repairs we are called to redo were competent work applied to the wrong part of the roof — sealant at a stain's location instead of at the entry point twelve feet uphill.
Commercial RoofingCommercial roofing is a different trade from residential work. The systems are low-slope rather than water-shedding, the failures start at details and terminations rather than in the field, and the building underneath usually cannot stop operating while you work on it.- Storm Damage RepairNew Jersey gets three distinct kinds of damaging weather: winter nor'easters that drive rain sideways for a day and a half, summer thunderstorm downbursts that snap limbs, and the occasional tropical remnant that combines wind with an extraordinary volume of rain.
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Tell us what you're seeing and we'll inspect it, photograph it, and explain what it actually needs — repair or replacement.