About Bridgehampton Roofing Co.

Bridgehampton Roofing Co. finds Hamptons homeowners the right roofer and steps out of the way. We're a referral service for the nine South Fork towns, Southampton to Montauk — not a roofing contractor: no crews, no trucks, no shingles in a warehouse. Tell us what's going on with the roof, and we put you in touch with one licensed, insured local roofer who fits the material and the job.

Roofs fail on a schedule, then all at once

Every material on a Hamptons roof comes with a number: asphalt is good for 20 to 30 years, cedar for 20 to 40, standing-seam metal for 40 to 70 or more, natural slate for 75 to 200, and insurers start asking questions past 15 to 20 years. That's the schedule, and most jobs we route follow it: a roof reaching the end of its life, replaced on the homeowner's own timeline. Then a nor'easter comes through and the schedule stops mattering — wind lifts a ridge cap, salt-corroded flashing gives out at a valley nobody was watching, and a roof with ten paper years left needs a cover by tomorrow.

What we ask before we send anyone

Before a roofer gets a homeowner's information, we check for a current Suffolk County Home Improvement Contractor license and a certificate of insurance covering liability and workers' compensation, no exceptions. Then we check what a license doesn't: real local references from the past year, and an actual track record in the material the job needs — a crew that tears off asphalt tracts all week is not who you want restoring century-old slate in Southampton's estate section. We choose by the job, not by whoever called back first.

The ones we turn away

Most of what we turn away shows up right after a storm: out-of-area crews with magnetic door signs and a cash discount, working the South Fork for a week and gone before a rushed repair fails. None can produce a Suffolk County license or a current certificate of insurance, and more than a few want a homeowner to sign an assignment of benefits before anyone has looked at the roof. We also turn away roofers with no track record in the material a job needs, and anyone who won't put a scope in writing before asking for money.

What it costs

Nothing, for homeowners. Participating roofers pay us a referral fee for the introduction. You pay the roofer for the work, on their quote, and we never sell your details to anyone else.

Where the cost ranges come from

Most roofing sites avoid prices entirely. We publish 2026 Long Island cost ranges per square, by material, because a homeowner who knows what a fair quote looks like is a better client for a good roofer and a harder mark for a bad one. Every figure traces to a dated research sheet, and where a range is wide, it's wide on purpose: cedar's lifespan sources disagree depending on maintenance and exposure, so we print the spread rather than a false average. Some numbers are Long Island specific — asphalt, cedar, standing-seam metal; others are national because no local figure exists, like natural slate, copper and gutters. One number we won't publish: a design wind speed for East Hampton and Montauk, where three sources gave three different answers.