01 Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
What air ducts in Woodcliff Lake actually look like
Woodcliff Lake has no public lake, more corporate office space than most towns its size, and some of the larger houses we service, all three show up in the ductwork.
Despite the name, the lake Woodcliff Lake is named for is a working water-supply reservoir with no public access, not a recreational lake, a detail that surprises people who move here expecting a beach. About 5,900 people live across 3.4 square miles, which puts the borough on the lower end of the density range among the towns we service and leaves room for larger lots than towns like Hackensack or Teaneck.
The housing here skews newer and bigger than the Bergen County average. A lot of it was built from the 1960s through the 2000s, and it is common for a Woodcliff Lake house to have started as a single forced-air system and picked up a second zone or a mini split for a finished basement or an addition somewhere along the way. That means a single service call here is more likely than in most towns to involve two or three different systems on two or three different maintenance schedules, not one central unit.
Chestnut Ridge Road and Tice Boulevard have hosted national and regional corporate headquarters for decades, BMW of North America among them, and that office-park base gives Woodcliff Lake a steadier stream of commercial rooftop-unit and office-building duct work than the storefront-heavy commercial jobs we see in denser downtown towns.