Roofing all eighteen miles of Long Beach Island
Paragon Exteriors is a licensed, family-run roofing and exteriors contractor (NJ HIC #13VH13814500) serving every town on Long Beach Island, from Barnegat Light down to Holgate. We build each LBI roof to full barrier-island spec — 130 mph wind-rated architectural shingles, six nails per shingle, sealed edge detail, and corrosion-resistant flashing — and finish most homes in a single day. Estimates are free and itemized: 848-633-6440.
Six towns, one Boulevard, six permit offices
From the road, LBI reads as one continuous beach town. Legally it’s six municipalities, each with its own construction office, its own fee schedule, and its own inspection calendar. That detail trips up off-island contractors every summer. It doesn’t trip us up.
| Municipality | Covers | What we see on roofs there |
|---|---|---|
| Barnegat Light | North end, by the lighthouse and Viking Village | Fishing-town capes taking raw northeast wind off the inlet |
| Harvey Cedars | The island’s narrowest stretch | Ocean-to-bay lots where one roof catches spray from both sides |
| Surf City | Mid-island borough grid | 1950s–60s capes and ranches, many on a final original roof |
| Ship Bottom | The causeway gateway | Tight lots, a heavy mix of originals and elevated rebuilds |
| Long Beach Township | Loveladies, North Beach, Brant Beach, the Beach Haven sections, Holgate | Everything from architect-designed moderns to piling houses |
| Beach Haven | The historic south-end borough | Victorian-era homes in the historic district, rental turnarounds |
Whichever office your address falls under — the Township building department in Brant Beach or one of the five borough halls — we pull the permit and book the inspections. You never call a construction office yourself.
Three generations of LBI houses, three different roof jobs
The postwar boom filled the island with modest capes and ranches, and thousands of them still stand in Surf City, Ship Bottom, and Brant Beach — usually with a low-slope porch section, sometimes with an old shingle layer hiding underneath, and fasteners that have been eating salt air for decades. Then there are the rebuilds. The Ash Wednesday nor’easter of March 1962 broke the island open at Harvey Cedars and leveled blocks of it; Loveladies’ famous modern architecture grew out of that rebuild. Sandy forced the next wave — houses raised onto pilings, and a roof that was fine at grade suddenly catching real uplift twelve feet higher.
The newest generation is the reverse-living house: bedrooms down, kitchen and living room on top for the view, with steep pitches, rooftop decks, and a lot of flashing detail sitting at the windiest point on the lot. Those roofs are unforgiving of sloppy work, and they’re most of what we replace in North Beach and Loveladies. And because this is LBI, siding means cedar — we install real cedar shake and cedar-look siding that weathers to the island gray instead of chalking out in the salt.
Salt on both sides of the house
Salt air corrodes from the edges in: rusted flashing, seized fasteners, shingle tabs that let go along the rakes first. Our island standard is stainless or hot-dipped fasteners, flashing metals chosen for salt exposure, ice & water shield at eaves and valleys, and shingles hand-sealed at every edge so a three-day blow can’t drive rain under the first course. The full logic is in our guides to nor’easter-proofing a coastal roof and which shingles survive the Jersey Shore.
What island owners hire us for
- Roof replacement on LBI — full tear-off, barrier-island spec, most homes done in one day
- Roof repair — edge lift after a blow, flashing leaks, and honest fix-or-replace calls
- Windows and doors that seal out winter wind, gutters in salt-tolerant metals
- Storm damage documentation and help working the insurance claim after a nor’easter
A large share of LBI owners live in North Jersey, Philadelphia, or beyond, so we run projects for absent owners as a matter of routine: off-season scheduling between Labor Day and Memorial Day, drone photos before and after, and a single itemized quote with financing if you want the project on a monthly payment instead of a lump sum.
Over the causeway
The same crews that work the island cover the mainland side of the bay: Stafford Township and Manahawkin at the foot of the bridge, plus Barnegat, Waretown, and Little Egg Harbor. Ready for a number? Request a free estimate — 848-633-6440.
