Roof Repair & Replacement in Bloomfield, NJ
Bloomfield's roof rules are scattered: an attic-fan permit in the building chapter, two noise chapters that disagree about Saturday, a rent chapter that begins at five units, and — if you are on or near the Green — a certificate of appropriateness.
Chapter 149, Bloomfield's building chapter, never uses the word roof — but it does make it unlawful to install an attic fan in any building without a permit from the Building Inspector, and it exempts a house of four units or fewer from the certificate of occupancy the Township otherwise wants at a change in occupancy. What governs the work sits somewhere else again: in two noise chapters written by two different legislative bodies, and in a rent chapter that starts at five units.
We are Precision Windows & Roofing, out of Garfield — NJ HIC #13VH13970900, GAF certified, insured. We install GAF, Owens Corning and CertainTeed, and every roof carries a ten-year transferable workmanship warranty. Until the Township tells you otherwise in writing, we schedule Bloomfield work inside the window both chapters allow. Call (201) 275-9185, answered around the clock when a roof is open.
- Roofing across Essex County — The county hub, which splits Essex into three roofing worlds — flat and low-slope multi-family in the dense east, including the older parts of Bloomfield, steep slate and shake up on the Watchung ridge, and plain shingle out west.
- Occupied and commercial buildings — Written for the building that cannot close: sequencing so every shift ends watertight, who actually has authority to order the work, access and staging, tenant notice, permits and phasing across budget years.
- Flat & low-slope roofing — EPDM, TPO and modified bitumen — how the seams are made, why the code sets a minimum drainage slope, and what ponding, parapets and drains do to a membrane over an apartment building or a storefront.
- Free roof inspection — A hands-on look on the roof and into the attic, with a plain written summary and photos — the dated condition record you want on file before anyone argues about when a roof went bad.
- Full roof replacement — Tear-off to the deck, decking repair or re-sheathing, underlayment, flashing and ventilation — the actual scope behind the word "improvement" on any application you file.
- Emergency roof repair & tarping — 24-hour tarping and dry-in, with the triage order we work in — people, electricity, evidence, then water — and the reasons the permanent repair waits for a dry deck.
Bloomfield answers the Saturday question twice
Chapter 380 is Council legislation, Part II — § 380-6 added 12-20-1971, amended 2-20-1973. Chapter 635 is Board of Health legislation, Part III, adopted 11-9-2005 and amended since. Neither repeals the other.
§ 380-6B declares the acts in its numbered list to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises in violation of the section, and adds that the enumeration "shall not be construed to be a limitation or be deemed to be exclusive." Item (11) is the one that reaches a roof: "The erection (including excavation), demolition, alteration or repair of any building, other than between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays, except in case of urgent necessity in the interest of public health and safety, provided that a permit therefor has been obtained from the Building Inspector. Such permit may be granted while the emergency continues for a period not to exceed three days and may be renewed for periods of three days or less."
Then § 635-6B(2): "Construction and demolition activity, excluding emergency work, shall not be performed between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends and federal holidays, unless such activities can meet the limits set forth in Tables I and II. All motorized equipment used in construction and demolition activity shall be operated with a muffler. At all other times, the limits set forth in Tables I and II do not apply to construction and demolition activities;"
One chapter has no Saturday in it; the other leaves Saturday and Sunday open from nine to six. We book Bloomfield jobs Monday through Friday, 7:00 to 6:00 — the only window both allow. If a weekend matters to your building, put the question to the Township in writing before a date is set.
The line Chapter 435 draws, and what it asks of your paperwork
Bloomfield is essentially half renter: ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimates put 10,466 of 21,226 occupied units in renters' hands, 49.3%. And 5,922 of its 21,789 housing units sit in structures of five or more units — 333 in five-to-nine, 1,476 in ten-to-nineteen, 1,593 in twenty-to-forty-nine, 2,520 in fifty-plus, on table B25024, which counts housing units and not buildings. That is 27.2% of the stock.
Five is the line Chapter 435 draws. Adopted 8-19-1985, amended in its entirety 11-17-2025 by Ord. No. 25-32. Its definition of dwelling is written wide — one “includes buildings or structures that are exempt from the restrictions mandated under this chapter” — and § 435-4 narrows it. Subsection A, in full: “Dwellings with four or fewer housing spaces.” The other exemptions cover initial rentals, certain newer multiple dwellings under state law, income-based rents and certain directly subsidized units. The Rent Leveling Board describes the ordinance as covering properties with five or more rental units.
Two consequences. Permits: N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7(c)1x reaches roof covering only and detached one- and two-family dwellings only, and 5:23-2.7(b)4 keeps structural work outside ordinary maintenance anywhere — so on a five-unit-and-up building the re-roof is permitted work. Records, and a clock: under § 435-3E(2)(h) the Board will not consider an application for work completed more than a year before filing, and the filing has to arrive with a letter of substantial code compliance from the Township departments — so a roof done quietly and papered later is a roof that stops earning. § 435-3E(2)(c) sets the exhibit list, § 435-3E(2)(j) wants copies of the permits, and whatever the Board grants is capped at 10% of the tenant's average rent for the preceding 12 months. We scope it as one identified improvement, date it, and invoice it as one job rather than a running tab.
Common questions
A storm opened my roof on a Saturday night. Can you come out?
Yes, we dispatch around the clock. The Board of Health chapter excludes emergency work from its hours, then defines that term narrowly — work necessary to deliver essential public services such as repairing water, gas, electricity, telephone, sewer or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees on public rights-of-way, or abating life-threatening conditions. A private roof is not an essential public service. The Council chapter is the one with a route written into it, and that route runs through the Building Inspector.
Does Bloomfield register or license roofing contractors?
We read the published chapter list and then opened the two chapters whose titles could plausibly carry one — Ch. 339, Licensing, whose Article I is Payment of Delinquent Taxes and Assessments, and Ch. 431, Rental Property Registration. Neither registers a trade, and there is no contractors chapter. Your verification here is the state one: a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration. Ours is #13VH13970900. Ask any bidder for the number and check it.
I own a three-family. Does the rent chapter reach me?
Not on unit count. § 435-4A exempts dwellings with four or fewer housing spaces, and the Rent Leveling Board's description starts at five rental units. The same table puts 2,833 units in Bloomfield's two-unit buildings and 3,268 more in buildings of three or four units — 6,101 units the chapter does not reach on unit count, though the three-or-four bucket is the one where the fourth unit decides it. The hours still apply to you, and so does the permit question the moment work goes past the covering into the deck.
I'm selling. Will the Township look at my roof first?
Not on an ordinary house. Bloomfield requires a new certificate of occupancy on changes in occupancy, but § 149-10B exempts "residential structures containing four dwelling units or fewer" — with the carve-out that the exemption "shall not apply to residential structures containing four dwelling units or fewer in garden apartment complexes." Your buyer's inspector is a separate matter.
Does anyone review what my shingles look like?
Only in a designated historic district. Chapter 302, adopted 3-27-2023, gives the Historic Preservation Commission the power to hear and determine applications for a certificate of appropriateness under Chapter 315, and its Survey Report is required to cover the existing Bloomfield Green historic district. Outside a designated district we found nothing in the code that reviews a shingle. Check your address against the Historic Preservation Element before you pick a colour.
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