Burlington is New Jersey's largest county by area — river-town historic housing along the Delaware, big suburban development in Evesham and Mount Laurel, and Pinelands townships to the east.
Burlington County stretches from the Delaware River almost to the shore, and the roof inventory changes completely along the way. The river towns — Burlington City, Riverside, Palmyra, Moorestown — have 18th- and 19th-century housing with steep pitches, party walls in places, and original flashing details. The suburban middle — Evesham, Mount Laurel, Cherry Hill's border townships, Willingboro — is dominated by post-war and later development, including large tracts of very consistent housing where every roof in the neighbourhood ages at the same rate. The eastern third is Pinelands: wooded, low-density, and hard on roofs because of debris and shade.
Willingboro and the other planned post-war communities deserve a specific mention, because their flat and low-slope roof designs are unusual for South Jersey single-family housing and need membrane work rather than shingle work. Getting that distinction right is the difference between a lasting repair and an annual patch.
Across the county the practical roofing questions are the ordinary ones done properly: is the decking sound, is the ventilation balanced, are the flashings and accessories renewable, and is this a repair or a replacement.
The Burlington County building stock we work on
18th- and 19th-century river-town housing in Burlington City, Riverside, Palmyra and Moorestown
Planned post-war communities including Willingboro, with flat and low-slope single-family roof designs
Large suburban development in Evesham, Mount Laurel and Medford with multi-gable asphalt roofs
Pinelands townships to the east with heavy pine debris and shaded slopes
Wide range of lot sizes, from tight river-town lots to acreage in the east
Roof problems we find most often in Burlington County
Low-slope single-family roofs
The post-war planned communities need membrane systems and proper drainage, not shingle repairs. Treating them as shingle roofs is why some of them leak every year.
Historic river-town flashing
Original chimney and wall flashing on old masonry, usually caulked at some point. Cut-in counter-flashing is the durable answer.
Uniform-age suburban failure
Whole streets of the same roof reaching end of life together. The first symptoms are boots, vents and valley metal.
Pine debris and shade in the east
Needles pack valleys and gutters, hold water at the eave and shorten shingle life on shaded slopes.
Communities we cover in Burlington 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.
Burlington County's 40 municipalities each issue their own roofing permits, and the river towns include historic districts where visible work may be reviewed. We confirm the requirement per address.
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 Burlington County is backed by our 25-year workmanship warranty, alongside the manufacturer's separate material coverage.
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Technical accuracy of this page is reviewed by Done Rite's lead roofing estimator, based on ten years of roof repair and replacement work across New Jersey.
Answers
Burlington County roofing questions
Coverage
Explore our South New Jersey coverage
Tap any county to open its roofing page, and tap a city marker where we have a dedicated community page. Boundaries are real county lines, and every county shown has a live page on this site.
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.
