Named for the township
About Dover Roofing & Siding
Roofs, walls and gutters for the houses of Toms River, the old Dover Township, and the shore towns around it. One phone line, answered at any hour.
The name
Why a Toms River company is called Dover
For more than two centuries this place was Dover Township, chartered in 1768 and named after Dover in England. Voters renamed it Toms River in 2006, but you still hear "Dover" at the hardware counter and see it on older deeds, school names and the Dover Beaches on the barrier island.
We kept the old name because it describes our working area better than any slogan could. Most of our days are spent within the old township lines, from the lagoons of Shelter Cove to the oak-lined streets of West Dover, with regular trips out to the rest of Ocean County and into southern Monmouth County.
The houses here have a lot in common. Plenty were built between the 1950s and the 1980s as ranches, capes, bi-levels and split-levels, with newer colonials filling in later, and since 2012 a good number have been raised, rebuilt or re-sided after Hurricane Sandy. All of them deal with wind off the bay, salt in the air and storms that come in from the northeast.
The work
What we do, and how we decide what a house needs
Our crews repair and replace roofs in asphalt shingle, metal, composite slate, cedar and flat-roof membranes, install and repair every common kind of siding, and handle the gutters, soffit, fascia, trim, skylights and windows that tie a house together. The full list of 36 services is grouped the way homeowners usually ask for them.
Every job starts the same way: we find the cause, take pictures, and show them to you. If a repair will carry the roof another several years, we say so. If the deck is soft or the shingles are past saving, the photos make that plain without a sales pitch.
- Any hour
You call, a person answers
Day or night, we ask what you are seeing, where, and whether water is coming in now. If it is, we talk you through protecting the room while we get moving.
- Usually under an hour
We look before we talk price
On the roof and in the attic, we find the cause, photograph it and show you the pictures. You see what we see.
- Same or next day
A written scope in plain English
You get the work, the materials by name, what happens if we find soft decking, and a price for each part, so nothing is a surprise on the day.
- Varies by town
Permits and paperwork
When the job needs a township permit or association approval, we prepare and file it and tell you when it clears.
- 1 to 3 days for most roofs
The work itself
Tarps and protection go down first. We tear off, repair the deck, flash and install, and keep the site tidy as we go, with a magnet sweep for nails at the end.
- Last hour on site
The final walk
We walk the house with you, hand over photos of what is under the new roof, and leave our number for anything you notice later.
Our guides
Who writes the blog
Myrtle Sawyer, our roofing & siding guides editor, writes and updates the roof and siding blog. The posts come out of the questions homeowners ask us on the phone and on the roof: what a new roof costs here, what to check after a nor’easter, how salt air changes the choice of materials, and how to get a job approved in a 55+ community.
If a post leaves you with a question about your own house, call (732) 419-1462. The person who answers can usually tell you over the phone whether it is something to watch or something to fix.
Where we work
The towns on our regular routes
Every section of Toms River, the barrier island from Ortley Beach to Lavallette, the bay towns from Island Heights to Bay Head, the Pinelands townships to the west and south, and the southern Monmouth County towns along the Parkway.
- Ocean County
- Monmouth County
- Lakewood
- Brick
- Jackson
- Howell
- Manchester
- Berkeley Township
- Lacey Township
- Stafford Township
- Barnegat
- Waretown
- Little Egg Harbor
- Lakehurst
- Beachwood
- Pine Beach
- Wall Township
- Point Pleasant
- Point Pleasant Beach
- Bay Head
- Manasquan
- Freehold
- Island Heights
- Ocean Gate
- South Toms River
- Seaside Heights
- Seaside Park
- Lavallette
- Silverton
- Gilford Park
- Pleasant Plains
- West Dover
- East Dover
- Downtown Toms River
- Ortley Beach
- Normandy Beach
- Shelter Cove
- Bay Shore
- Cedar Grove
- Coates Point
- Long Beach Island
- Mantoloking
- Brielle
- Sea Girt
- Spring Lake
- Belmar
- Neptune
- Ocean Township
- Asbury Park
- Long Branch
- Middletown
Want us to take a look?
Call any hour. We will ask a few questions and tell you what happens next.