Bergen County is home ground for Asset Roofing & Chimney. Our office is at 238 Crescent Ln in Cliffside Park, on the Palisades side of the county, and most of our work days start and end within a short drive of it. That means we know the county's housing the way a local contractor should: the dense two-family boroughs along the Hudson, the pre-war neighborhoods around Hackensack, the post-war subdivisions of Paramus and Fair Lawn, and the larger older homes of Ridgewood and Englewood.
The county covers a lot of ground. Seventy municipalities stretch from the riverfront boroughs on the Hudson, across the Hackensack River lowlands around the county seat in Hackensack, out to the suburban townships and villages of the northwest. Roof and chimney problems change with that geography: wind exposure along the cliffs, river-valley moisture and flooding in low areas, heavy tree cover inland, and freeze-thaw cycles everywhere.
We handle residential and commercial roofing, with a focus on asphalt shingle and flat or low-slope systems, and a full range of chimney services from inspection and cleaning to liners, crowns, caps, flashing, repointing and rebuilds. Estimates are free, and if your roof was damaged in a storm we can help you document the damage for an insurance claim.
Roofing in Bergen County
Roof types in Bergen County follow the housing. In the denser boroughs along the Hudson and around Hackensack, a large share of buildings are two-family homes and small multifamily buildings with flat or low-slope roofs, often with several layers of old roofing underneath. Farther inland, the typical roof is a steep-slope asphalt shingle roof on a colonial, cape, split-level or ranch, with dormers, valleys and chimneys that create the usual leak points.
Weather is the other half of the story. Nor'easters push wind-driven rain and wet snow against the county from the east and northeast, the Palisades ridge takes the brunt of gusts off the Hudson, and inland towns with mature trees deal with branch loads and gutter-clogging debris every fall. Winter freeze-thaw cycles open up hairline cracks in flashing and masonry and produce ice dams on north-facing slopes. We repair what can be repaired and tell you plainly when a roof has reached the end of its service life.
Chimney work in Bergen County
Most chimneys we see in Bergen County are brick, built before 1960, and originally designed for coal or oil heat. Many have clay tile liners that have cracked or separated over the decades, and a good number were never relined when the furnace or boiler was converted to gas. Gas appliances produce cooler, wetter exhaust that condenses inside an oversized or unlined flue, and that moisture quietly eats the mortar from the inside out.
On the outside, the damage is more visible: crowns cracked by freeze-thaw, missing caps that let rain and animals in, spalling brick faces, and flashing that has pulled away from the roof. Two-family homes often have multi-flue chimneys serving two heating systems, which complicates both inspection and relining. We inspect, clean, reline, rebuild crowns, install caps, repoint and waterproof, and we reflash chimneys as part of roof work so the two trades are not pointing fingers at each other.
