Passaic is one bridge crossing from our Garfield shop — the river forms the city's eastern border, crossed by six road bridges — and Main Avenue sits about ten minutes out. The median home dates to 1938 and over half the stock predates 1940, so most calls mean out-of-square frames, rope-and-pulley sash, and glazing patched for decades.
Detached single-family is roughly 15% of units; the rest is large apartment buildings and converted two- and three-families, so our work leans toward property managers and condo boards — IGU swaps down a whole elevation, common-area door glass — plus owner-occupied two-family jobs.
Local building stock
What We Work On in Passaic
Pre-war brick apartment blocks and wood-frame two-families; Queen Anne and Tudor houses around Third Ward Park; three-deckers, duplexes, and subdivided Victorians at the north end; Passaic Park's condo and co-op buildings along Aycrigg Avenue — Carlton Tower (1964, 21 stories, 229 units) is the city's tallest, with the mid-rise Aycrigg Manor and 1980-built Highview Terrace nearby. Main Avenue between Monroe and Gregory is the retail spine — storefront rows, surface lots, and the eleven-story People's Bank Tower — with more shopfronts on Monroe and Lexington; the Botany Worsted mill district (spinning from 1889 until 1955) on the 1861 Dundee Canal anchors the old First Ward.
Our work here
Recent Passaic Jobs
Window Installation · 1 day · 2026
Picture Window & Flanker Replacement — Passaic
Installed a large center picture window with two flanking units on a Passaic home — maximizing the glass area and the view while sealing out drafts.
The center fixed lite carries the view; the flankers were set to match sightlines and trim. Fixed picture windows have no operating hardware to fail, so they hold their seal and insulation value longer than operable units — the right call for a big wall of glass. Fully flashed and insulated to NJ code, trimmed inside and out.
Roof Replacement · Tear-off in progress · 2026
Old Shingles Stripped From a Front Gable — Passaic, NJ
A roof replacement under way on a Passaic house: the old asphalt shingles are partly stripped off the front gable and a crew member, tied off in a harness, works along the ridge.
This is the tear-off stage, so the roof is not finished and the frame shows exactly that: loose shingle pieces, torn edges and bare patches where the old roof is coming off. The overhead service wires run right across the slope, which is one more thing a crew has to work around at the eave and gable. A tear-off is also the point where the deck underneath can be looked at directly, before any new roofing goes down.
Roof Replacement · Tear-off in progress · 2026
Tarps Over the Lawn During a Roof Tear-Off — Passaic, NJ
The front of the same Passaic house during the tear-off: ladders up to the eaves, two crew members on the roof, and blue tarps laid over the lawn and shrubs below.
Old shingles and nails come off a roof in volume, and most of it lands in the yard unless something is there to catch it. The blue tarps on the lawn and around the shrubs are that something, and a green roll-off dumpster is parked at the left edge of the frame for the debris. The job is still in progress here, with the old roof half removed, so nothing in this photo shows the finished roof.
Roof Replacement · Tear-off in progress · 2026
Harnessed Crew Stripping to the Deck at a Chimney — Passaic, NJ
The back of the Passaic house: four roofers in harnesses strip the old shingles down to the bare wood deck around a brick chimney.
Where the shingles have come off, the wood deck shows through as orange-brown boards around the chimney. That is the point of a full tear-off instead of a layover: the surface the new roofing will sit on is exposed and can be checked board by board. Each roofer in the frame is wearing a harness.
Roof Replacement · Completed · 2026
Finished Roof Replacement on a Cape Cod — Passaic, NJ
The Passaic Cape Cod from the tear-off cards, finished: a full dark grey architectural shingle roof from eave to ridge, photographed from the same front walk three days later.
Put this card next to the tarps-and-ladders frame and the change is the whole roof. The torn shingle edges, loose pieces and bare patches are gone, and the main roof and the small front gable over the stoop now share one continuous surface of dimensional shingles with straight courses along the eave. The tarps, ladders and debris are cleared off the lawn as well.
Roof Replacement · Completed · 2026
New Shingles Around the Front Gable — Passaic, NJ
A closer look at the front of the finished Passaic roof, where the small gable over the entry meets the main slope.
The two sloped edges of that front gable run into the main roof, and those lines are where a careless shingle job shows first: crooked courses, gaps, or tabs that do not line up on either side. Here the courses run straight across both faces and the gable trim sits clean beneath them. The chimney cap on the far side of the ridge is just visible at the top of the frame.
Roof Replacement · Completed · 2026
Back Slope, Chimney and Vent Pipes After Reroofing — Passaic, NJ
The back of the Passaic house after the reroof: the slope where the crew stripped to the deck around the chimney is now fully shingled, with two vent pipes coming through it.
Every pipe that pokes through a roof is a hole the new shingles have to seal around. On this slope the two vent pipes each come up through a metal flashing collar that sits on the shingles, one just under the chimney and one near the eave. The brick chimney itself wears a metal cap. This is the same slope shown bare in the harnessed-crew tear-off frame.
Roof Replacement · Completed · 2026
Completed Roof Seen From the Back Yard — Passaic, NJ
From the corner of the back yard, the whole rear slope of the finished Passaic roof is in view, chimney to gable end.
Shot from low in the yard, this angle takes in the full length of the rear slope: from above the deck at one end to the gable wall at the other, with the chimney and the small vent pipes spaced along it. Most of this slope cannot be seen from the street at all, so a back-yard photo is the only way to show that the new shingles cover it end to end.
Typical projects
Common Passaic Jobs
Fogged-IGU replacement in pre-war apartment buildings, keeping existing frames
Vinyl replacement of worn double-hung sash in converted two- and three-families
Storefront glass and door repair on Main Avenue, Monroe, and Lexington
Window and slider work in Aycrigg Avenue condo and apartment buildings (Carlton Tower, Aycrigg Manor, Highview Terrace)
Wood sash repair and reglazing on Passaic Park's Queen Anne and Tudor homes
Passaic Note
Carlton Tower and Passaic Park's other large condo and co-op buildings require a certificate of insurance and unit-alteration approval; replacements must match exterior sightlines. We handle the paperwork and issue the COI directly to the association — allow a week or two for sign-off.
Seasonal pattern in Passaic
Passaic fronts the west bank of the Passaic River, and Ida put six feet of water on low-lying streets in 2021 — the city declared a state of emergency. Near the river we spec tempered or laminated glass at grade and handle post-storm board-ups. Route 21 (McCarter Highway) runs the riverfront with ramps at Main Avenue and Monroe Street; for units facing it, laminated glass or a soundproof insert cuts the drone without touching the facade.
Neighborhoods we serve in Passaic
Passaic Park Third Ward Park Passaic North Dundee (First Ward) Main Avenue corridor Aycrigg Avenue
Can you replace windows in my Aycrigg Avenue condo?
Yes. Board approval and COI first, then a measure visit, fabrication in 2–5 business days, and about 30 minutes of install per window — all coordinated through the building's elevator.
My apartment faces Route 21 — what cuts the highway noise?
Laminated glass helps; an interior soundproof insert does more — a sealed air gap, installed from inside in under an hour, facade untouched, no association approval fight.
My two-family's windows are drafty and fogged — full replacement or just glass?
If the frames are square and sound, a glass-only IGU swap keeps the original trim. Rotted sash or racked frames — common in older converted multifamilies — call for a full vinyl unit. We tell you which at the measure visit.
The full detail
Windows, Glass & Doors — Statewide Guides
This page covers Passaic. The pages below carry the method behind it — how a replacement is measured and flashed, what a repair actually costs to scope, when a failed insulated unit can be swapped without replacing the window, and a calculator you can run before you call.
Precision is a full exterior contractor, too — roof repair & replacement, leak and flashing work, gutters, siding, chimneys, and skylights, same-day in Bergen County, and elsewhere depending on the job and how booked we are that day, from our Garfield shop.
