Rubber Roof Replacement in Wallington from $5. EPDM at $5 to $9 a square foot -- what people mean by a rubber roof, and when it is the right one. Free inspection and a written quote.
Small rear-addition roofs are the common case, and here the honest advice is not to over-specify. A 45-mil fully adhered EPDM on a twelve by fifteen extension is entirely adequate, and the difference between systems on a roof that size is far less than the difference between good and careless detailing.
When people here say rubber roof they almost always mean EPDM, and it installs at $5 to $9 per square foot. It is the least expensive of the single-ply systems, it handles a freezing winter well, and on a small to medium roof it is frequently the correct choice rather than merely the cheap one.



Rubber roof means EPDM here, and it installs at $5 to $9 per square foot -- the least expensive single-ply, and on a small to medium roof frequently the correct choice rather than a compromise. What has to be in the quote is the thickness and the attachment method, because 'rubber roof' on its own is not a specification. The cheapest place on this list for the same roof. Detached and semi-detached housing means side access on some plots, which is the single biggest saving available on a job like this -- and on a detached one- or two-family house there may be no permit at all.
A 45-mil fully adhered membrane is not the same purchase as a 60-mil mechanically fastened one. On a roof you intend to keep, 60-mil is a small uplift for real durability. Over a trading shop, fully adhered avoids the noise and vibration that fastening puts through the ceiling.
Reflectivity on a large dark roof over occupied space, and seams: EPDM is bonded with adhesive and tape rather than welded, so on a roof with many penetrations the workmanship at each one is doing more of the work. TPO at $6 to $12 is the alternative.
On a twelve-by-fifteen extension the difference between systems is far less than the difference between good and careless detailing. We would rather spend the money on the junction with the pitched roof above it.
The useful difference is that detached housing genuinely exists here, which means ordinary maintenance under N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7 actually applies to some of it -- no permit, no inspection. It also means side access on some plots, and side access is the single biggest saving available on a job like this.
Wallington is the one area covered here where a straightforward detached house is normal, which makes it the cheapest place on this list to do the same roof.
Worth knowing before you start ringing round, because in this city the lead time is rarely about the crew.
On most jobs here the roofing is two to five days and the preparation is what takes the calendar. A dumpster on a city street, a delivery on a bus route, a route onto the roof through somebody else's tenancy, and hours that fit the business below all have to be arranged before a crew is any use. A contractor who quotes a start date without mentioning any of that is quoting an empty building.
The cheapest place on this list to do the same roof, for two reasons that have nothing to do with the covering.
More often a rear addition than a whole roof, and with side access on some plots the drainage fix becomes practical: a new outlet has somewhere to discharge to.
The most conventional shingle work covered on this site: detached and semi-detached houses, real eaves, side access on some plots.
Small apartment buildings here sit among houses on compact plots, so the constraint is usually parking rather than roof access.
Smaller commercial stock than Passaic and better access to it, which moves a quote down on an otherwise identical roof.
No side yard, no driveway, parapets on every side.
Semi-detached and pitched. Eaves are back in play.
Mill-scale low slope, with plant on top of it.
The tightest frontages, and party-wall junctions.
The shop below decides the hours and the route.
Bus routes and loading bays. Arrange the street first.
A more open grid, so a dumpster needs no negotiation.
The questions that decide this job, answered up front.
On a roof you intend to keep, 60-mil. The uplift on a small roof is modest and it buys real puncture resistance and durability. On a small rear addition you expect to rebuild within a decade, 45-mil fully adhered is entirely adequate and we will say so.
With mechanical fastening, yes -- it is screws through the deck. Fully adhered avoids that, which matters over a trading shop or a bedroom. It is worth raising before the system is chosen rather than after the first complaint.
No. The inspection is free, the written quote is free, and neither carries an obligation. The survey covers the frontage and the route as well as the roof, which is the part most quotes skip and the part that decides the price here. What we will not do is give you a number at the curb.
An architectural asphalt roof in New Jersey runs $9,500 to $26,000, and most 2,000 square foot houses land at $12,000 to $18,000. Flat roofing is $5 to $14 per square foot by system and commercial work $4 to $18. In this city add the access honestly: a narrow frontage with nowhere for a dumpster is real labor, and a quote that ignores it will change.
At an edge, almost certainly. An attached building has no eaves, so water leaves through an internal outlet or a scupper through the parapet -- and the failures are at the coping on top of the wall, at the upstand where the membrane turns up it, or at the outlet itself. The field is usually the last thing wrong with a roof here.
The route to the roof established before anything is priced. New Jersey figures, with the access stated rather than buried.