How much it costs in Bloomfield, how long it takes, who handles the permit, and what a quote should contain before you accept it.
The eight questions that actually decide roof replacement, answered with published numbers.
$250 to $350 per panel in New Jersey -- roughly $5,000 to $6,500 on a 26-panel system and $4,500 to $9,500 across the normal range of residential systems. That covers the electrical disconnect, removal and labeling, storage while the roof is open, reinstallation, reconnection and a production check. It adds four to seven days to the job.
Before, if the covering has less than about fifteen years left. The removal and reinstallation cost -- $4,500 to $9,500 -- simply does not happen if the roof is already new when the array goes on. Doing it the other way round means paying a second set of trades to undo work finished the year before, and nobody selling solar has a reason to raise it.
An architectural asphalt roof runs $9,500 to $26,000, with most 2,000 square foot houses at $12,000 to $18,000 installed. Per square foot that is $5.50 to $8.00 for architectural and $4.50 to $6.50 for three-tab. If there is a solar array on the roof, add $4,500 to $9,500 and four to seven days.
Usually not. Replacing the covering on a DETACHED one- or two-family dwelling is ordinary maintenance under N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7 -- no permit, no notice, no inspection -- and in a township of detached houses that is the normal answer. Three or more units, an attached building or anything structural is different, and we confirm it at the survey.
It might, and we find out rather than guess. Halcyon Park was laid out in 1895 as a planned community and is a historic district; New Jersey municipalities may operate a historic preservation commission whose approval is needed for exterior changes. Whether that applies to a roof here is confirmed with the township before the work is booked.
Because most online figures are national, and because they assume a simple roof with nothing on it. New Jersey pricing is $9,500 to $26,000 before you add an array, board sheathing that has to be made good, or a roof shape with six valleys on it. Detail work is labor and it does not scale with square footage.
Two to four days on site for a house, three to seven on a period roof with a lot of detail, and one day for a detached garage. A solar array adds four to seven days on top. Weather moves all of it and we will not dry-in a roof we cannot finish.
No. The inspection is free, the written quote is free, and neither carries an obligation. The survey includes counting the array and giving you an honest estimate of how much life the covering has left, which is worth having even if you use somebody else. What we will not do is give you a number at the curb.
Essex County ranges, and a written quote once the job is seen.
$12,000-18,000 on a 2,000 sq ft house.
$4,500-9,500 for a normal system.
Three-tab to architectural, installed.
Epdm $5-9, tpo $6-12, installed.
Plus detail work, itemized separately.
A typical detached garage.
A free written quote, no obligation.