“I own a two-family on a corner lot. They showed me the soft spots in the deck before anything went down, and sent photos each afternoon.”
Ildiko M.Two-family, flat roof replaced
Paterson, NJ · flat roofs and parapets
Keep a lid on it.
Flat-roof replacement, parapet repair and coping for row houses, two-families and mixed-use buildings. Tell us the building and we'll come look.
- Row houses, two-families, mixed-useFlat roofs up to four stories
- Monday to Friday, 7 to 5Saturday, 8 to noon
- Se habla españolJean Nunez, Monday to Friday
- NJ home improvement contractorRegistration number on every page
By building type
Your building, your roof
Paterson is full of attached buildings with flat roofs. The roof, the walls and the neighbors are different on each kind.
Row house
A narrow flat roof between two shared walls.
Parapet walls shared with the neighbors
Chimney, scuttle and drain flashing
Two- and three-family
One roof over two or three households, often with a porch or bay below.
Tenants to notify before the work
Top-floor ceilings that show a leak first
Mixed-use
A store below, apartments above, and a flat roof that has to keep both dry.
Work scheduled around store hours
Longer parapets and more drains
Parapet and coping repair
The leak is usually at the top of the wall
The coping is the cap on top of a parapet wall. When its joints open or a cap cracks, water runs down inside the wall and shows up a floor or two below, nowhere near the roof.
We check the caps, the brick or stucco under them and the flashing where the roof meets the wall, and write down what we find.
Open joints between coping caps
Cracked, loose or missing caps
Loose brick or stucco under the cap
Wall flashing pulled away from the parapet
What we do
Four jobs, all up top
A visit
Walk the roof, then write it down
- 01
Step 1: You tell us the building
Row house, two-family or mixed-use, by the form, the phone or a text.
- 02
Step 2: We walk the roof and the top floor
Roof, parapet, drains, then the ceilings underneath, with photos.
- 03
Step 3: You get it in writing
What we saw, what we would do and what we would leave alone.
- 04
Step 4: We set the days and tell the tenants
A notice for the door, clear stairs and a sweep when the crew leaves.
Sample reviews
What owners say about the work
“Water was running down the wall in the top-floor hallway. Jean found the open joint in the coping and left the rest of the roof alone.”
Icilda B.Three-family, coping repair
“The store kept its hours. They told the tenants the day before, and the stairwell was swept when they left.”
Najla K.Mixed-use, store and apartments
Sample reviews.
The family
Who answers the phone and who goes up
Lina Ziadeh
Owner and estimator
Third generation. Lina writes every estimate and walks every roof with you before she does.
Eyad Ziadeh
Crew foreman
Runs the roofing crew and the parapet work: brick, flashing and coping.
Jean Nunez
Estimator and crew lead
Answers the phone in Spanish and English, Monday to Friday, and leads the second crew.
Service area
Towns we roof in
Paterson and the towns around it, in Passaic and Bergen counties.
Passaic County
- Paterson
- Clifton
- Passaic
- Prospect Park
- Haledon
- North Haledon
- Hawthorne
- Totowa
- Little Falls
- Woodland Park
- Wayne
Bergen County
- Garfield
- Rochelle Park
- Fair Lawn
- Hackensack
- Saddle Brook
- Glen Rock
We don't roof in New York City or south of Newark, and we don't take roofs taller than four stories.
Questions
Before you call
Why is there a stain in my top-floor ceiling when the roof looks fine?
Water travels. On a flat roof it often enters at the parapet, the coping or the wall flashing, runs down inside the wall, and shows up a floor or two away. We trace it before we price a repair.
Can you fix just the coping?
Often, yes. If the caps are sound and the joints have opened, we re-seal or reset them and say what else we saw. If the brick under them is moving, we tell you, and you decide.
Do you work with tenants in the building?
Yes. We give you a notice to hand out, set up so the stairs and doors stay clear, and keep the work to the hours on your contract. On mixed-use buildings we work around the store.
Does anyone there speak Spanish?
Jean Nunez answers the phone in Spanish, Monday to Friday, and can walk the roof with you in Spanish. Ask for your estimate in Spanish and we write it that way; the contract is in English too.
Tell us the building. We look at the roof.
A written estimate comes after we have walked the roof, not before.