Beachwood’s roofing and exteriors contractor
Paragon Exteriors is a licensed, fully insured roofing and exteriors contractor serving Beachwood, NJ (NJ HIC #13VH13814500). We replace most Beachwood roofs in a single day — full tear-off, wind-rated architectural shingles, borough permit handled — and we also cover roof repair, siding, gutters, windows, and decks. Estimates are free and itemized, financing is available, and the number is 848-633-6440.
We’re family-run: Joe Ballaccomo has 15+ years in roofing, solar, and home improvement, and Franchi Vacchiano brings roughly four decades of construction experience, including foreman work on major builds like the Borgata in Atlantic City. Every project gets drone documentation, so you see your finished roof from angles no ladder reaches.
A newspaper-built town with hundred-year-old rooflines
Beachwood has one of the stranger origin stories on the Shore: it was laid out in the 1910s as a summer colony marketed through a New York Tribune subscription promotion — take the paper, get a shot at a lot near the river. Plenty of those original summer bungalows still stand on the beach blocks, winterized decades ago and expanded one room at a time.
That history is why roofing here is its own trade. On pre-war bungalows we routinely find two or three shingle layers over plank decking, low-slope porch and dormer additions that shed water poorly, and attics with almost no ventilation because the house was never meant to be heated. None of that is a problem when your roofer expects it — all of it is a problem when someone bids the house like a 1995 colonial.
| Housing stock | Where in Beachwood | What we plan for |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s–40s winterized bungalows | Beach blocks near the riverfront | Multi-layer tear-offs, plank decking repairs, low-slope additions, ventilation retrofits |
| 1950s–70s capes and ranches | Central grid off Beachwood Boulevard | Second- and third-cycle roofs, chimney flashing failures, undersized gutters |
| Split-levels and later builds | Pinewald Road and the Route 9 side | 20-year roofs coming due, algae streaking under heavy tree cover |
River wind on one side, pine woods on the other
Beachwood gets squeezed by two different exposures. The riverfront takes the coastal hit: nor’easters push wind and salt spray straight up the Toms River, lifting shingle edges and corroding bargain flashing and fasteners years ahead of schedule — the failure pattern we break down in our nor’easter protection guide. The south end of the borough backs up to the pine-oak woods around Jakes Branch County Park, which means needle-packed gutters and valleys, moss on shaded slopes, and ice dams on those low-pitch bungalow additions every hard winter. We spec each roof for the block it actually sits on, not a generic “Ocean County” template.
The jobs we run most in Beachwood
- Roof replacement — tear-off to magnetic nail sweep between breakfast and dinner, same crew and process behind our 30-roofs-in-30-days run in May 2026
- Roof repair — wind-lifted shingles after a blow off the river, flashing leaks on older chimneys, pre-winter tune-ups
- Gutters — oversized downspouts and guards for the pine-heavy south end
- Siding — replacing chalked, salt-faded vinyl on the beach blocks
- Storm damage — tarping, drone documentation, and insurance claim support when a nor’easter wins a round
Budgeting first? Start with our honest breakdown of what a roof replacement costs in NJ.
Down the road from Beachwood
Our trucks cross the river into Toms River daily, and we work Berkeley Township, Manchester, and Lacey Township the same weeks — if your street is between any of them, you’re on the route.
