Roofers in North Hempstead

The roofers listed here have shops in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County. The October 2026 cards are in Port Washington, Mineola and Westbury. The town lists 30 incorporated villages inside its borders, Mineola and Westbury among them, and the town's Building Department covers only the unincorporated areas. The license comes from Nassau County, and every card shows our license check status.

Last reviewed October 31, 2026.

The envelope says Port Washington. To the building department, that settles almost nothing. Port Washington North, Manorhaven, Baxter Estates and Sands Point all sit on the town’s list of incorporated villages. Port Washington itself does not. Find out which side of that list your house lands on before a roofer prices the tear-off, because a village house goes through village hall and the town’s rules stop at the village line.

Town hall or village hall in North Hempstead

By its own count the town covers 58 square miles. Long Island Sound caps it to the north, Queens sits to the west, Oyster Bay to the east and the Town of Hempstead to the south. The northern shore traces Little Neck Bay, Manhasset Bay and Hempstead Harbor. Tucked inside those borders are 30 incorporated villages, Great Neck Plaza, Kings Point, Roslyn Harbor and Old Westbury among them.

The result is a patchwork. The town’s Building Department says its authority covers the unincorporated areas only. Live in one of those, like Port Washington, and you deal with the town. Live in Flower Hill or Munsey Park and you deal with your village.

The town side is laid out in full on our North Hempstead permit guide: the filing fee, the double fee for work done first, the papers the town checks, and the department’s phone and hours. It stays there, so this page skips it.

One thing holds steady across every village line, and that is the license. Roofing, siding, gutter and window work all fall under the Nassau County home improvement license. Our county license page walks you through running a company through the county lookup before you sign.

North Hempstead tear-off hours and village noise rules

Town code keeps a tighter clock on crews than most homeowners expect. Chapter 38 bars construction noise that carries across a residential property line from 6 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. on weekdays, and at any time on weekends and holidays.

So a crew still tearing shingles after 6 p.m., or pulling up for a Saturday tear-off, is outside that window unless the work is urgent and in the interest of public safety. Even then the Building Department has to issue an extended construction hours permit, and the code says it may be renewed for three days or less at a time while the emergency continues. A Saturday permit covering 9 in the morning to 6 at night does exist, but the code keeps it to business and industrial zoning districts where the sound stays away from homes.

Villages write their own chapters, and the two we read do not line up with the town. North Hills bars exterior construction and construction machinery on Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and on weekdays from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The only way around it is an emergency permit from its Building Inspector. Westbury lets construction equipment that creates a noise disturbance run only from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays, outside cases of urgent necessity for public safety. In any other village, call village hall for its hours before you agree to a start date.

North Shore snow and wind in the 2026 blizzard

The blizzard of February 22 and 23, 2026, did not spread its snow evenly across Nassau, and the National Weather Service summary shows it. Roslyn reported 16.0 inches, Herricks 16.8, and a spot one mile west of Westbury 18.0. Down on the South Shore near North Merrick, the highest Nassau report on the same list reached 25.4 inches. The wind came too, with a gust of 41 mph logged 0.9 miles southwest of Manhasset early on February 23.

Sixteen inches is still a heavy load sitting on a roof and packed in the gutters. When snow melts against a warm attic and refreezes at the eaves, an ice dam starts to build. The ice dam guide covers removal and the ice barrier question. Gutters that tore loose in that storm belong on the gutter page, and leaks that showed up after the thaw belong on the roof repair page.

Where the North Hempstead cards are based

In the October 2026 snapshot, two companies list Port Washington, two list Mineola and one lists Westbury. Our locality file puts all three places under North Hempstead. Nassau County’s own list files Mineola under the Town of Hempstead, though, so a Mineola card can turn up in talk about either town. Where the shop sits decides nothing about your permit. Where the house sits does.

All five cards are marked for roofing. Siding, windows and waterproofing show up on one each. A missing service only means we have not tagged it yet, and the company may still do it, so ask. For a whole roof, hold the quote against the published Long Island prices in the replacement cost guide. Every card also notes where our check of that company’s Nassau license stands.