Roofers in the Town of Hempstead

This page lists roofing companies based in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, not the Village of Hempstead. Levittown, Merrick, and Oceanside use the town building department. The Village of Hempstead, Garden City, Freeport, and Valley Stream use the village. Nassau County licenses the contractor, and each card says whether we have checked it.

Last reviewed October 31, 2026.

The hard part of hiring in this town is the word Hempstead. A house in Levittown is in the town. A house inside the Village of Hempstead is not, at least not for a permit. The village’s FAQ draws that line: inside the village limits the village answers, and homes past that line fall to the town. Garden City, Freeport, Rockville Centre, Valley Stream and the rest of the villages work the same way. Mail that says Hempstead does not tell you which counter gets the application.

Two building departments, one word on the map

Nassau is three towns plus two cities. This page is only the Town of Hempstead. The unincorporated places include Levittown, East Meadow, Uniondale, Elmont, Baldwin, Roosevelt, Merrick, North Bellmore, Wantagh and Oceanside. Companies in the October 2026 directory are based in several of those, and also in Valley Stream, Garden City, Freeport and Rockville Centre. A Garden City address on a card means the shop is inside this town. It does not mean the town will permit a house in Garden City.

Homeowners sign an affidavit, and that form is limited to property the town actually covers. The fee table, the higher charge when work starts early, the one-year clock and the full village list are on the Hempstead roofing permit guide. Use that page for the dollar math. Do not file at town hall until you know the house is outside every village line.

Bay weather, and the Nassau license

Oceanside, Wantagh and Merrick face the bay. Freeport does too, under village rules of its own. The National Weather Service log for the February 22 to 23, 2026 blizzard includes a public report of 25.4 inches, taken 1 mile east-northeast of North Merrick. Snow is one problem on this shore. Wind and floodwater are the other. The town keeps a separate application for putting back what a storm, a flood or the wind tore off, with its own instructions, and a different application for an ordinary alteration. Which one a given roof belongs on is a scope question. The permit guide is where that choice, and the cost of starting early, is spelled out.

A quote for a house close to the water should name the flashing metal and the shingle wind rating. The published reasons are on the lifespan guide and the asphalt shingle page. The walls on those same blocks are a material choice: the vinyl siding page records how a Long Island company ranks vinyl against fiber cement where salt air is part of the job, and the siding page compares the other options. Gutters often come off during a tear-off, so the gutter page belongs in the same conversation. Windows are a Nassau license category too, covered on the window page.

The license itself is the county’s. Nassau puts roofing, siding, gutters and windows on the home improvement application. We did not find a Town of Hempstead roofer license sitting on top of that. How to look a company up, and what the restitution fund does and does not pay, is in the Nassau license guide. The line on each card says whether we have checked it.

Work hours are narrower than a lot of people expect, and one detail is still fuzzy. Town code treats building work outside 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays as unreasonable noise, unless there is an urgent safety need and the Department of Buildings has permitted it, renewable three days at a time. The code text we are using does not say whether Saturday is a weekday. Ask before you schedule one. Villages are free to differ.

Every Hempstead card in the October 2026 snapshot includes roofing. Siding is on three cards. Chimney is not tagged on these cards, which means we have not marked it, not that the work is unavailable.