Bergen County is home base — the Done Rite office is in Garfield. Local housing stock is dominated by pre-war and post-war homes carrying multiple shingle layers, with rear additions creating pitched-to-flat transitions.
Bergen County is the densest county in New Jersey by municipality count — around 70 separate boroughs, townships, cities and villages, each running its own construction office. That matters more for roofing than most homeowners expect: two houses four minutes apart can sit under different permit desks, different inspection schedules and different rules about how much of the old roof can stay.
The building stock is mostly 1920s through 1960s: colonials, capes, bungalows and post-war ranches on narrow lots, many of them expanded at the back at some point in the last fifty years. Those expansions are the reason Bergen roofs leak. A pitched original roof tied into a low-slope addition creates a transition that only stays dry if the flashing, the underlayment lap and the membrane termination were all detailed correctly, and on a 40-year-old addition they usually were not.
Because Done Rite works out of Garfield, Bergen is the county where we do the most repeat and referral work — and where a same-day look at an active leak is realistic rather than aspirational.
The Bergen County building stock we work on
1920s–1950s colonials, capes and bungalows, frequently carrying two or three shingle layers
Post-war ranches and split-levels where step flashing at the wall-to-roof step is the weak point
Rear and side additions creating pitched-to-flat tie-ins — the most common leak origin in the county
Narrow urban lots in Garfield, Lodi, Hackensack and Fair Lawn where staging and neighbour protection are part of the scope
Mature tree canopy across the western boroughs: debris load, limb strikes and packed valleys
Roof problems we find most often in Bergen County
Addition tie-in leaks
Where a flat or low-slope addition meets the original pitched roof. Water tracks under the shingle course and shows up on a ceiling several feet inside, which is why the stain is rarely under the actual failure.
Layered roofs hiding decking rot
Two or three layers trap heat and moisture and hide soft sheathing. We check decking condition before quoting a replacement so the number does not move mid-job.
Chimney counter-flashing
Older masonry chimneys with surface-caulked flashing instead of a cut reglet. Caulk fails in five to eight New Jersey winters; properly let-in counter-flashing does not.
Undersized attic ventilation
Finished attics and knee-wall spaces added without matching intake to exhaust. The result is winter condensation that looks exactly like a roof leak.
Communities we cover in Bergen County
Each community below has its own page with local detail. City pages keep their original addresses from the current Done Rite site — this county hub adds hierarchy without moving a single existing URL.
Roofing permits in Bergen County are issued by each municipality, not by the county. With roughly 70 construction offices in the county, requirements and turnaround differ borough to borough. We confirm what your specific address requires before scheduling and pull the permit as part of the scope.
Warranty, licensing and credentials
Done Rite Roofers is a GAF Certified roofing contractor licensed in New Jersey (HIC #13VH12674100), Pennsylvania (#PA192943) and Connecticut (#HIC.0698708), carrying $2 million in insurance plus bond. Workmanship in Bergen County is backed by our 25-year workmanship warranty, alongside the manufacturer's separate material coverage.
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Bergen County is home base — the Done Rite office is in Garfield. Local housing stock is dominated by pre-war and post-war homes carrying multiple shingle layers, with rear additions creating pitched-to-flat transitions.
Every county and community listed here has its own page on this site. Duplicate legacy URLs are kept reachable but deliberately left out of this index.
Real projects
Recent New Jersey roof projects
A look at recent New Jersey roofs we have worked on: the town, the roof system, the problem the homeowner called about and how we solved it.
Ventnor City, NJ · Atlantic County
Architectural asphalt full replacement
Problem
Recurring second-floor ceiling stain traced to failed original chimney counter-flashing on an early-1900s barrier-island home, with two existing shingle layers and soft decking at the north valley.
Solution
Full tear-off of both layers, decking replacement at the valley, ice-and-water shield at eaves and valleys, rebuilt chimney step and counter flashing, new open metal valley, balanced soffit intake with ridge exhaust.
Ponding water on a row-home roof with a clogged interior drain and shrunken seams at the parapet termination, leaking into the top-floor rear bedroom.
Solution
Tear-off to deck, tapered insulation to re-establish slope toward the drain, heat-welded TPO membrane, new drain assembly and clamping ring, fully terminated and coped parapet.
Storm-torn shingles across the rear slope of a two-family with active water entering the second-floor hallway during a nor'easter.
Solution
Same-visit tarping and water diversion, photo documentation for the insurance claim, then permanent slope repair with new underlayment, matched shingle courses and replaced pipe boots.
