Paragon Exteriors repairs roofs across Bay Head, NJ — wind-lifted shingles, failed dormer and chimney flashing, cedar shake patch-ins — with same-day tarping for active leaks. Most repairs cost $450–$1,800 and are finished in one visit; Route 35 puts our Ocean County crew here in minutes. Licensed NJ HIC #13VH13814500, fully insured. Call 848-633-6440 and text a photo if you can.
What Bay Head roofs do when they’re failing
The complaints we hear most from the blocks between the ocean and Twilight Lake:
- A brown ring on a bedroom ceiling under a dormer valley after wind-driven rain
- Damp plaster beside a chimney or turret in an 1890s–1920s cottage
- Shingle tabs on the lawn the morning after a blow, usually from the ocean-facing slope
- Rusty streaks running off fasteners — salt-corroded nails backing out
- Cedar shakes cupping, splitting, or simply missing in patches
Any of those, and the roof is telling you something specific. Which brings us to the real work.
The leak is rarely where the stain is
On the cut-up rooflines of the historic district — stacked porch roofs, intersecting gables, valleys everywhere — water can enter at a turret flashing and surface two rooms away. So we don’t caulk the stain and leave. We trace it: attic inspection, moisture readings, the flashing details upstream of the mark, and drone imagery of slopes nobody should walk. You get photos of the actual entry point and a written, itemized fix. That diagnosis is the difference between one repair and four.
When we’ll tell you not to repair
Here’s our line, stated plainly. If your roof is structurally sound with an isolated failure — one bad valley, lifted tabs on one exposure, a flashing joint that let go — a proper repair is money well spent, and it’s most of what we do here. But if we find granule loss across whole slopes, corroded fastening throughout, or a roof past 20 years collecting its third leak, we’ll say so and price a replacement in Bay Head instead, with financing if that helps the timing. The math behind that call is in our guide to repair vs. replacement — we’d rather lose a small job than sell you a patch on a roof that’s finished.
Close by, on purpose
We work Bay Head, Point Pleasant, and Mantoloking weekly, so a repair here isn’t a special trip — see everything we do in Bay Head or the full roof repair service page. Storm just came through? Tarp first, paperwork second: 848-633-6440.