Gloucester County is fast-growing South Jersey: historic Woodbury and Glassboro cores surrounded by large 1990s-and-later development in Washington Township, Monroe and Harrison.
Gloucester County has grown quickly, and its roof inventory reflects that. A very large share of the housing was built from the late 1980s onward — Washington Township, Monroe, Harrison, Mantua, Franklin — with multi-gable asphalt roofs, attached garages, front dormers and a consistent build quality. Roofs like that fail predictably, and almost always at the accessories first: pipe boots crack, ridge vents loosen, valley metal corrodes, kick-out flashing was never installed.
Around that sits the older layer — Woodbury, Glassboro, Paulsboro, Swedesboro and Pitman — with early-1900s and pre-war homes, steep pitches, porches, original chimney flashing and, in places, low-slope rear roofs. That stock needs a different eye: flashing quality and decking condition drive the decision far more than shingle age.
The county also still has genuinely rural and agricultural areas to the south and west, with barns and outbuildings on metal or low-slope roofs where re-fastening and targeted repair usually beat replacement by a wide margin.
The Gloucester County building stock we work on
Large 1990s-and-later development in Washington Township, Monroe, Harrison and Mantua with multi-gable roofs
Early-1900s and pre-war homes in Woodbury, Glassboro, Pitman and Swedesboro
Low-slope rear roofs and porch roofs on the older borough stock
Rural and agricultural areas to the south with barns and metal-roofed outbuildings
Student rental housing around Glassboro where maintenance is often deferred
Roof problems we find most often in Gloucester County
Pipe boot and ridge vent failure
The signature failure on the county's newer stock. A small accessory replacement solves a leak that gets sold as a whole roof.
Missing kick-out flashing
Common on 1990s construction where a roof edge meets a wall. Water runs behind the siding and rots the wall rather than staining a ceiling.
Porch and rear low-slope roofs
On the older boroughs, these sections are the oldest part of the roof and the first to genuinely need replacing.
Exposed-fastener metal on outbuildings
Leaks at gaskets, laps and closures rather than through the panel. Re-fastening is usually the sensible spend.
Communities we cover in Gloucester 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.
Gloucester County permits are issued by each municipality, with historic considerations in parts of Woodbury and Swedesboro. We confirm the requirement for the address before scheduling.
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 Gloucester County is backed by our 25-year workmanship warranty, alongside the manufacturer's separate material coverage.
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Answers
Gloucester County roofing questions
Coverage
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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.
