Skip to content Thirty years on Nassau, Suffolk and Queens roofs and GAF Master Elite certification you can verify on GAF’s own site in under a minute. Every job priced line by line, in writing.
Owner Of Bluemaster Roofing
Our owner has spent 30 years working on roofs across Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties.
That’s long enough to know that every neighborhood—and every home—has its own roofing challenges. A cape in Levittown can fail in a completely different place than a waterfront colonial in Bay Shore, and the roof somebody rushed ten years ago is often the one leaking today.
That experience is part of why Bluemaster Roofing is a GAF Master Elite® Roofing Contractor. It represents a commitment to proper installation, professional standards, licensing, insurance, and standing behind the work we put on your home.
What does that mean for you?
The person who prices your roof is accountable for the job.
Our crews install your roofing system according to GAF manufacturer specifications—not according to whatever gets the job finished fastest.
And when your roof qualifies for enhanced GAF warranty coverage, you have the added protection of one of the largest roofing manufacturers in North America behind your roofing system.
Six roofing systems, each installed to the manufacturer’s specification, because that is what keeps the warranty valid. Tell us what your roof is doing and we will tell you honestly whether it needs a repair, a section, or a full replacement.
The right answer for most Long Island homes, and what nine out of ten roofs here already are. We install GAF architectural shingles with a high-wind nailing pattern, upgraded starter course, and balanced intake and exhaust ventilation. Specified that way, this is the system that carries fifty transferable years.
Common through Huntington, Northport, and out east, and unforgiving when installed wrong. Cedar has to breathe from underneath or it cups, splits, and releases its own fasteners. We install over a ventilated underlayment with stainless nails, so the shakes outlast the metal holding them down.
Aluminum standing seam, which is what we recommend within about a mile of open water. Salt air attacks steel fasteners and coatings long before the panels themselves wear out, so the roof fails at its weakest metal. Aluminum sidesteps that, and carries fifty years on material.
The roof goes on first. Mounting an array onto decking with eight years left is how homeowners end up paying twice, once to remove the system and again to reinstall it. We handle the roof, the mounts, and the flashing at every penetration, which is where solar actually leaks.
Nearly every Long Island house has a low-slope section somewhere. A dormer, a porch roof, a rear extension where shingles were never appropriate and have been quietly failing for years. We install GAF Liberty on residential work and Carlisle TPO or EPDM on commercial. Ponding water is a pitch problem, not a patching problem.
Garden City, Great Neck, Roslyn and Forest Hills Gardens still hold a lot of original slate, and most of it is repairable. Before anyone quotes a tear-off, the decking, flashing, and slate hooks need looking at. A slate roof condemned early is usually a sales decision, not a structural one.
Single family homes across all three counties. Capes, colonials, ranches, split levels, and the low-slope additions bolted onto most of them. We start in the attic rather than on the shingles, because decking condition, ventilation, and daylight through the sheathing tell you far more about a roof’s remaining life than the surface does.
Flat and low-slope buildings, including multi-family, retail, and warehouse. We are Carlisle factory trained, which is the specific condition their manufacturer warranty depends on. Work is scheduled around your tenants and your operating hours, and the registered warranty certificate goes into your file at handover, not six weeks later.
Roofing is what we do. These two are what sit either side of it. The gutter hangs off the roof edge and the siding starts an inch below it, so when all three are done by the same crew, the junction between them is one person’s responsibility instead of nobody’s.
Most of what goes wrong on a roofing job goes wrong before anyone touches a ladder. Here is how ours runs. One thing worth saying up front: how far you are from our yard decides the window we can give you.
We come out, get on the roof, go into the attic, and photograph everything we find. You keep the photos whether or not you hire us. No charge, no pressure, and no price that quietly expires at midnight.
Line by line. Material, labor, permit, disposal, and the exact system going on. The per-sheet rate for any bad plywood is agreed before we start, so nothing gets priced while your roof is sitting open.
Property protection goes down first. Then tear-off, decking inspection, ice and water shield, drip edge, ventilation, and install. Most homes finish inside a single day, and we file the permit with your village, your town, or NYC DOB.
A magnet pass across the entire property, not just the driveway. Then a walkthrough with you before the truck moves, and your warranty registered with the manufacturer and handed to you on paper.
Call the office and you get a roofer on the phone, not a call center. Tell us the address, the age of the roof and what it is doing, and we will book an inspection with a real arrival window. Free, no deposit, and you keep the photographs either way.
We don’t say “lifetime warranty” and leave it there. Here is the coverage that comes with each system we install — written into your estimate, before you sign anything.
On the material
Installed by a Carlisle factory-trained crew, which is what the manufacturer warranty depends on. You get the full terms and the registered certificate for your records.
Canadian Solar / REC Pannels
The GAF Golden Pledge can only be registered by a GAF Master Elite® Contractor — the top 2% of roofing contractors in the country. It isn’t something a company can buy; GAF verifies years of track record, licensing, insurance, and customer history before granting it, and reviews it every year.
That matters most for the question every homeowner should ask: what happens if my roofer isn’t around in fifteen years? With a Golden Pledge, GAF still stands behind the work.
Why choose us
Most roofing quotes on Long Island look similar on paper. These are the six places they stop looking similar. Ask every contractor quoting you about each one, and the differences show up quickly.
| What to compare | What you usually get Typical contractor | GAF MASTER ELITE® What you get with us Bluemaster Roofing |
|---|---|---|
| Pre and post inspection Unique to us | One look before the quote. Once the roof is closed up and the truck has gone, nothing is checked and you have no record of what went on underneath. | Two inspections, both photographed. Before we quote, and again when the job is finished, from the same positions. You keep both files, so you can see what was actually installed instead of taking our word for it. |
| GAF Master Elite® certified | A manufacturer badge in the footer, often a lower tier than it appears, and sometimes years out of date. | Master Elite, roughly the top 2% nationally. GAF re-audits it every year. Fall short on training, insurance or customer history and the status is withdrawn. It is searchable on GAF's own site. |
| 30 years of experience | A commission salesman quoting from a tablet, who has never installed a roof and will not be there when yours goes on. | 30 years on Long Island roofs. The owner prices the job and is on it. Our own crew installs to the manufacturer's specification rather than to whatever finishes fastest. |
| 50-year transferable warranty | A workmanship promise that lasts exactly as long as the company does, and materials coverage that quietly shrinks year by year. | 50 years on materials, transferable to the next owner. Registered with the manufacturer rather than with us, so the coverage does not depend on this company still being here. |
| 100% financing available | A large deposit up front, or a finance option produced only after the price has already been agreed and you have run out of room to negotiate. | Financing up to 100% of the project, subject to credit approval. The options go on the table at the estimate, before you commit to anything. |
| Licensed and insured | A photograph of an insurance card, or a certificate that expired last spring, produced only if you push for it. | Fully licensed and insured. A current certificate of insurance goes out the same day you ask, with your name added as certificate holder. |
None of this is asking you to take our word for it. The certification is searchable on GAF's site, the insurance certificate goes out the same day you ask, and the inspection photographs are yours whether or not you hire us. Run these six checks on us, then run them on everyone else quoting you.
Talk to a roofer: 516-405-5590We cover all three counties, and the towns below are where we work most often. The towns below are where we work most often, picked because each one stresses a roof differently. Salt air and flood-zone rebuilds on the South Shore, heavy tree cover and the highest wind exposure out east, and flat roofs behind shared parapet walls across Queens.
Our home county, and the shortest drives we make. Older suburban housing stock, salt air along the South Shore, and a building department in nearly every incorporated village.
Bigger lots, heavier tree cover, and more cedar than anywhere else on the Island. Wind exposure climbs steadily the further east you go past Riverhead.
Closer than most people assume. Southeast Queens is a short drive from our door. Mostly flat and low-slope work on attached houses, filed with NYC DOB rather than a village hall.
Call the office with your address. We will tell you straight away whether you sit inside our regular route and when the next inspection slot in your area opens.
Recent replacements from our Nassau, Suffolk and Queens crews. Same roof, same camera position, nothing staged.
Original shingles had lost most of their granules and the ridge was opening up. Full tear-off, decking checked sheet by sheet, and architectural shingle with a new ridge vent.
Shingles lifted and torn across the slope, with the gutter packed solid and holding water against the fascia. Stripped, re-decked where needed, and gutters cleared and re-pitched as part of the job.
North-facing slope that stayed damp for most of the year, with moss along the shingle edges. Tear-off, new leak barrier in the valleys, and an algae-resistant shingle going back on.
Reviews from homeowners across Nassau and Suffolk. Where they mention the town, we have left it in, because that is the detail worth reading.
20+ Daily Clients
Three standing discounts, not a countdown timer. None of them expire tonight, none of them require signing today, and all three come off the written estimate rather than being promised and forgotten. Ask about them at your inspection.
For a full roof replacement
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For those who serve Long Island
Still not sure about something? Call the office and talk to a roofer, not a call center.
Cost is driven by roof area in squares, how many existing layers come off, pitch, how much decking is rotted underneath, and the permit fee for your jurisdiction. A Levittown cape and a steep Garden City colonial of similar square footage are not similar jobs. Anyone giving you a firm number over the phone has not seen the four things that decide it
Usually one of four reasons, and they are worth asking about directly. The cheap quote is going over your existing shingles instead of tearing off. It is skipping the permit. It is priced without proper ventilation or ice and water shield. Or the plywood is not priced and gets added mid-job. Ask every contractor to break out those four items and the quotes stop looking so different.
Ask for three things and watch how fast they arrive. A current certificate of insurance with your name added as certificate holder, which should reach you the same day. Their license, which you can verify with the county. And any manufacturer certification, which is searchable on the manufacturer’s own site rather than taken from a footer badge. Ours is on GAF.com. A contractor who hesitates on any of the three has told you something.
Usually yes for a full tear-off, and who issues it depends on your exact address rather than your mailing town. Nassau alone contains 2 cities, 3 towns and 64 incorporated villages, each with its own building department. Suffolk has ten towns plus its own villages. Queens files with the NYC Department of Buildings instead. We identify the right authority, pull the permit and close the inspection as part of the job.
Depends on the roof’s age and the damage. Sudden storm damage, like wind tearing shingles off, is generally what carriers consider. Wear and gradual deterioration are not, and damage on a roof already near the end of its life is frequently denied as wear. Being straight: a denied claim still sits on your record. We document everything before anything is touched and tell you honestly whether filing is worth it.
Most of Nassau, western Suffolk and southeast Queens are short runs. The East End is scheduled onto route days so you get a real date instead of a maybe. Active leaks are the exception everywhere and get handled the day you call.
It can be either, which is why the test is how it was priced rather than whether it was mentioned. Nobody knows the decking condition until the old roof is off, so the per-sheet rate should be agreed in writing before the job starts, not quoted while your roof sits open. Ask for the rate upfront and photographs of every sheet replaced. Both are reasonable requests and both are easy to refuse.
Storm damage, repair against replacement, and knowing when a roof is genuinely finished. Written from what we actually find on Long Island roofs rather than pulled from a manufacturer’s brochure.
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Free inspection, photographs of every finding, and written line-item pricing before anything is agreed. We file the permit, whether that is your village, your town, or NYC DOB. Financing available up to one hundred percent, subject to credit approval. Bluemaster Roofing covers Nassau, Suffolk and Queens.
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