Roof Replacement & Siding in Somerville, NJ

Somerville is one of central New Jersey's most distinctive boroughs — about 12,300 residents in roughly 2.4 square miles, anchored by a genuinely thriving Main Street commercial district and the historic Wallace House (George Washington's headquarters during the 1778–79 winter encampment). The borough has the kind of walkable downtown character that's increasingly rare in suburban New Jersey, and the residential streets around Main Street have homes that have been continuously maintained for over a century.

The borough's housing stock is heavily early-1900s — Colonial Revivals, Victorians, American Foursquares, and the occasional Tudor or Craftsman bungalow. Many of these homes have original wood clapboard or cedar shingle siding that's been on a paint-every-7-years cycle for decades. Most of our Somerville projects involve transitioning these homes from constant repaint maintenance to factory-finished James Hardie ColorPlus that holds color for 15+ years.

Period-appropriate material packages matter in Somerville's residential streets. We use HardiePlank in narrow profiles to match original clapboard widths, custom HardieTrim profiles to replicate the wide window casings and decorative cornice detail typical of early-20th-century borough architecture, and HardieShingle for cedar shingle accents that often appear in gables.

Somerville's compact borough lots mean staging requires careful planning. Most lots have 5–10 feet of side yard, materials need to land in single drop locations near the curb, and crews work side-to-side rather than spreading across the property. We coordinate with the borough on parking permits and protect adjacent properties during tear-off — important details in a walkable downtown where every project happens with neighbors and visitors looking on.