Shoreline East Construction Corp

Shoreline East Construction Corp Shoreline East Construction Corp. has been a family run business for over 30 years working to ensure complete client satisfaction.

The company's success is attributed to the careful attention to customer's needs. This includes team work, fair and competitive bids, personalized attention to detail, superior quality of workmanship, and the devotion and pride in every project. Thomas Nastasi, Owner & Builder, has a lifelong experience in the building business. This ranges from small to extensive additions and renovations, includ

ing entire residential demolition and new construction. He personally works with the clients to ensure that their needs and desires are met. His mission is to completely satisfy each customer. He has built this business through a solid reputation and repeat customers.

06/23/2026

Week 1 of our newest project on Delaware Street!!

These homeowners first called us during week one of COVID, six years ago. Life happened, timing wasn’t right, but they never forgot. Now here we are finally breaking ground together.

Full exterior overhaul: new siding, new windows, new garage door. Interior modifications, bathroom renovations, and more throughout. Plans approved, permits pulled, work underway.

Going to document every phase of this one. Stay tuned.

06/22/2026

Nobody’s ever asked me this before: what’s the best compliment a client has ever given you?

Not “great tile work” or “love the kitchen.” The best one is simply: “I trust you.”

We invest a lot in our clients, months of time, energy, problem-solving, communication. When they reflect that trust back, it means everything.

Some clients still call just to catch up long after the project wrapped. We were in each other’s lives for months, went through the chaos together, and came out the other side as friends.

That’s the compliment worth working for.

06/22/2026

Grew up laboring for my father every chance I got. Eight, nine years old, crossing the Driscoll Bridge from Long Branch into Westfield before sunrise. I know which streets I physically bled on and which ones I eventually walked with a notebook instead of a hammer.

Finished college, worked one last day with my dad, threw that hammer as far as I could and said I was done with construction forever.

Landed an office job right here on Central Avenue at an IT firm. Finished my entire week’s work by Monday morning. Four days of staring at a screen doing nothing.

Called my dad after six months. “How about I come back?”

Never looked back.

06/19/2026

Ugly wallpaper won’t wake you up at 2am in January. A failed heating system will.

When I evaluate a house, cosmetics come last. After the neighborhood check and basic livability assessment, I’m heading straight to the attic and basement to look at mechanicals. How old is the HVAC? When was the hot water heater installed? Any signs of plumbing issues?

A 20-year-old water heater doesn’t care that you have dinner at grandma’s tonight. It fails when it wants to, usually at the worst possible moment.

Too many buyers obsess over trim details and paint colors while ignoring the systems that actually determine whether your home is functional and comfortable.

Check the mechanicals first. Everything else is cosmetic.

06/18/2026

There was a moment in my driveway where I kicked the tool boxes off the truck and said we were doing this wrong. Just me, my father, and two guys grinding through projects wasn’t sustainable.

We needed real teams. Structure. A better way of operating.

From that point forward, I’ve constantly worked to improve how we do things. Not reinvent construction, not pretend we have some secret formula. Every builder out there is doing the same basic work. The difference isn’t the trade, it’s the people doing it.

When I walk into your home alongside another contractor, the only thing we share is the same occupation. Everything else, our process, our relationships, our standards, that’s what sets Shoreline apart.

That’s who we are.

06/17/2026

“We’re nervous about what you’ll find behind the walls.”

Heard this constantly. And honestly? It’s a fair concern.

Demo day revealed the usual suspects: minor rot around the old tub, some deterioration near the toilet from years of slow leaking, slightly soft plywood subfloor. Nothing alarming, nothing unexpected for a bathroom this age.

All repairable. All handled. Another day of construction.

We don’t nickel and dime clients over normal findings. This is part of the job and we work through it together.

06/16/2026

Strip a Westfield home from the 50s or 60s and you might find this: Johns Manville strong board. Fibrous, lightweight, particle board-like sheathing that predates modern plywood.

Back then, homes were sheathed with tongue and groove boards nailed directly to studs. This product came along as a cheaper, lighter alternative with some insulating value. It worked for its era.

Fast forward to today: we stripped this house and found it in decent condition. Wrapped it in house wrap and kept moving. The catch? You can’t nail siding into this material. It won’t hold. Every piece of Hardie Plank has to be stud-nailed, which means snapping lines across the entire house first.

Old homes reveal old solutions. You adapt and keep building.

06/13/2026

Westfield is a tremendous town to build in. I got my first opportunity here nearly 40 years ago and never left.

Say you’re a builder from Westfield anywhere in New Jersey and people react differently. There’s a reputation that precedes the town, and honestly, that reputation has been very good to us.

Nearly four decades later, still here, still building, still grateful for every project this community has trusted us with.

06/12/2026

The biggest red flag in construction? A price that seems too good to be true. Because it always is.

Where exactly is that savings coming from?

Either they’re cutting scope, using inferior materials, underpaying their crew, or planning to make it up in change orders later. There’s no magic number that defies market reality.

Protect yourself. Understand what you’re actually paying for before chasing the lowest bid.

06/10/2026

Construction TRUTH: Hiring a contractor is like being in a relationship for the duration of your project, so choose wisely

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