Somerset County
Roofing & Exteriors

Somerset County may have the widest spread of roofing work of any county we serve, because the housing runs from one extreme to the other. In the Somerset Hills — Bernardsville, Far Hills, Bedminster, and the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township — we work on estate homes with natural slate, cedar shake, and copper detailing, where a roof is a six-figure restoration and the wrong fastener or flashing detail is unacceptable. Twenty minutes away in Manville, Bound Brook, and South Bound Brook, the stock is older, denser working-class housing on the Raritan flood plain, where the priority is a watertight, code-correct architectural-shingle roof at a fair price.

The big middle of the county is suburban reroof territory. Bridgewater, Hillsborough, Montgomery, Branchburg, and Warren are full of 1980s–2010s colonials and developments that are now hitting their first or second shingle-replacement cycle — straightforward GAF Timberline HDZ tear-offs with the System Plus warranty registered for the homeowner. Somerville, the county seat, mixes a historic downtown with older residential, and the Route 22 / 202–206 corridors carry the commercial and retail buildings where we install and repair TPO and EPDM flat roofs. The corporate office parks along I-78 and I-287 round out a steady commercial flat-roof workload.

Two Somerset-specific realities shape how we work here. First, water: the Raritan and Millstone river corridors through Bound Brook, Manville, and Millstone flooded catastrophically in Floyd (1999) and Ida (2021), so on lower-lying homes we pay close attention to roof drainage, gutter capacity, and the interaction between roof runoff and an already-saturated lot. Second, the hilly, wooded northwest of the county sees real ice-dam exposure in winter — we spec ice & water shield well past the code-minimum eave line on the steeper, shaded roofs in the Hills. We pull each town's permit and coordinate inspections township by township.