Hackensack Roofers — Victorians, Colonials, Two-Families
Eight minutes from our Maywood HQ, Hackensack sits inside our daily run. The housing here is older and tougher than the suburbs west — 1900s Victorians on Prospect Ave, colonial brick on Polifly and Summit, two-family stock throughout Fairmount.
The Victorians want hand-formed copper
The Prospect Ave historic corridor has a real concentration of 1880–1910 Victorians, most with original slate roofs that have finally given up. We default to GAF Timberline HDZ in Pewter or Charcoal for slate-look replacements and hand-form 16 oz copper step and counter flashing at every chimney. The Historic Preservation Commission approves us as a profile-match contractor, which speeds the application by a couple of weeks.
Two-family stock means split contracts
A big slice of Hackensack roofs are two-family — one shared roof, two owners on the contract. We’ve gotten good at the paperwork: split invoices by unit, dual permits where required, coordinating color picks between owners (the downstairs tenant usually wants charcoal, the upstairs usually wants pewter; we let them fight it out and roof it once). Average two-family job: 2 days, crew of 5, no overtime, both units stay occupied.