Clementon Roofing, and a Second Look at the Quote You Have

Almost always because they are not for the same roof. One allows for replacing bad decking and the other does not. One includes a permit and disposal; the other adds them later. One is a thirty-year architectural shingle and the other a builder-grade three-tab. Once both are written out line by line, a gap that looked like thousands usually turns out to be four or five specific decisions.

The number of squares and the pitch. The shingle by manufacturer and line. Underlayment type, and whether ice-and-water membrane runs at the eaves and in the valleys. New drip edge, starter course and ridge cap. New pipe boots. The ventilation being fitted. A rate for replacing decking by the sheet. Permit, disposal and the cleanup standard. If it is one figure under a paragraph of description, there is nothing to compare.

In squares, where a square is a hundred square feet of roof surface, adjusted for pitch — a steep roof holds far more surface than its footprint suggests. We write down the squares, the pitch and the linear feet of valley, ridge and edge. Those numbers are objective: if two estimates disagree on them, one of them measured wrong, and that is worth knowing before anything else.

Nothing before materials are ordered, and never a large cash sum to hold a date. A deposit that covers the materials for your specific roof, once the order is placed, is ordinary. Anything that looks like funding somebody else's job is not.

Residential reroofing in New Jersey boroughs generally does, and it is the contractor's job to pull it rather than yours. If an estimate does not mention a permit, ask whether it is included or simply not being taken out — those are very different answers.

For a repair, sometimes. Colour lots drift and lines get discontinued, so a patch on a ten-year-old roof usually reads slightly different in direct sun. We photograph what is up there and tell you honestly how close a match is available before any work starts.