Roofing Lakewood, from Leisure Village to the newest duplex
Paragon Exteriors is a family-run, licensed roofing and exteriors contractor (NJ HIC #13VH13814500) serving Lakewood, NJ — roof replacement, roof repair, siding, gutters, and commercial roofing. Most Lakewood shingle roofs are torn off and re-shingled in a single day, estimates are free and itemized, and financing is available. Call 848-633-6440 or request your estimate online.
Four generations of housing, four different roof problems
No town in Ocean County spans more building eras than Lakewood. The resort years that put Georgian Court’s Gould estate and the Rockefeller grounds (now Ocean County Park) on the map left behind stately older homes near the lakes with steep pitches, slate-era framing, and chimneys that need real flashing work. Postwar capes and ranches spread out from downtown toward County Line Road — simple, walkable roofs, but many now on their third shingle cycle over decking that deserves inspection. The 1960s and 70s added the big adult communities — Leisure Village, Leisure Village East, the Fairways at Lake Ridge — with low-slope ranch roofs by the thousand. And then the boom: since the early 2000s Lakewood has been the fastest-growing municipality in New Jersey, filling in with duplexes and townhomes in sections like Westgate, Coventry Square, and Raintree.
Each era fails differently, and we quote each one on what it actually needs — not a one-size template.
What inland weather does to a Lakewood roof
Eight miles from the beach, Lakewood trades salt spray for tree pressure. Mature oaks and pines on the older wooded lots drop leaves, needles, and branches that dam up valleys and pack gutters solid by November. Shaded north slopes grow the black algae streaks that make a 12-year-old roof look 25. Winter brings ice dams wherever attic insulation is thin — a chronic issue in postwar capes (here’s how ice dams start and how to stop them) — and summer heat cooks shingles from below on unvented attics. Nor’easters and summer thunderstorm gusts still lift tabs this far inland; they just get less press than they do on the barrier island.
The boom roofs are coming due together
Here’s the Lakewood-specific story most contractors miss: thousands of duplexes and townhomes went up in a compressed window through the 2000s and 2010s, most wearing builder-grade shingles with 15–20 realistic years in them. That entire generation of roofs is hitting its expiration window at roughly the same time. If your home went up during the boom and you’re seeing granules in the downspouts or lifted tabs after wind, check the warning signs — and if you share a roofline with a neighbor, talk to them before you call. Re-roofing both halves of a duplex in one mobilization keeps the ridge, valleys, and warranty continuous and usually lowers each side’s price.
In the adult communities, first find out whether your association owns the roof — in several Lakewood villages it does. We work with individual owners, boards, and property managers alike.
Flat roofs off Cedar Bridge Avenue
Lakewood’s industrial park and the commercial corridors along Routes 9, 70, and 88 carry a huge inventory of flat and low-slope roofs — warehouses, shuls, schools, offices, storefronts. We handle commercial roofing here too: TPO, EPDM, and coating systems, with drone documentation so owners and boards see exactly what condition the membrane is in before and after. Weighing membrane options? Start with our flat roof guide for NJ commercial buildings.
Also serving Lakewood’s neighbors
Lakewood borders four towns we work in constantly: Brick, Toms River, Jackson, and Howell. Crews are nearby most days of the week, which is why Lakewood leak calls get answered fast.
