Roofing in Pine Brook, Montville

Statewide, most New Jersey replacements are reported at about $8,500 to $22,000, with an average near $14,000 for a standard asphalt roof. For a typical Montville home, a published local estimate is $10,000 to $25,000 or more. Your figure follows the roof's size, pitch, how cut up it is, how many slopes are actually worn, and the deck.

For architectural shingle on a typical Montville home it sits above the published estimate of about $10,000 to $25,000 or more, so ask what is driving it: size, a cut-up roofline, decking, or a premium material such as metal. Ask too whether every slope really needs replacing; if only the shaded ones are worn, a part-roof price per square may be the honest alternative.

On a detached one- or two-family house in New Jersey, replacing the roof covering is ordinary maintenance and needs no permit. Structural work, such as new decking or rafters, and commercial roofs are different, and in Montville those go through the township's Construction Department at 195 Changebridge Road. The written quote says which applies to your job.

Not on age alone, and in Montville not always all of it. Asphalt shingles are generally rated at 15 to 30 years, but under the township's trees the shaded slopes hold damp, moss and ice and wear out first. If those slopes are done and the sunny side still holds its granules, replacing only the worn slopes is priced per square next to the whole roof.