Monmouth has more than fifty municipalities and about as many kinds of exterior. On the ocean side, in Monmouth Beach, Deal, Avon-by-the-Sea, Long Branch and Asbury Park, there is a lot of cedar shingle, wood clapboard and deep late-Victorian trim, often on houses that have been painted a dozen times over. Along the Navesink and the Shrewsbury, in Red Bank, Fair Haven, Rumson, Little Silver, Navesink and Oceanport, the stock runs to shingle-style and older colonials with wide soffits, porches and original wood windows. Both groups hold a great deal of pre-1978 housing, so lead-safe work practices are the default on their trim rather than an upgrade.
The bayshore is different again. Keyport, Hazlet, Aberdeen, Matawan, New Monmouth and the Middletown sections on Sandy Hook Bay are mostly capes and ranches, many of them resided in aluminum in the 1960s and 70s and now chalking. Inland, in Marlboro, Manalapan, Freehold, Howell, Tinton Falls, Wall Township and Lincroft, vinyl is the common body material with painted wood trim, fascia and garage doors around it, and the first real repaint tends to come due long after the builder has gone. In Colts Neck and Holmdel the lots get larger and stucco and brick fronts appear, along with detached garages, barns and pool houses that belong in the same estimate as the house. Which means a Monmouth County exterior painting quote is really a list of substrates, identified at the estimate rather than priced at one rate per side.
