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A small crossroads hamlet in Upper Makefield Township, between Newtown and the river. Roof work for old houses that have been added to.
Dolington is a hamlet, one of a handful of old place names in Upper Makefield Township along with Buckmanville, Jericho, Lurgan and Woodhill. It amounts to a crossroads and the houses around it, set among large lots, hedgerows and preserved open ground between Newtown and the Delaware. The oldest buildings are frame and stone with steep pitches and small windows, and most have gained at least one addition since they were built.
Old houses with newer additions need the transitions treated as the main event. We rebuild roof-to-wall step flashing, reset chimney counterflashing and take care where a low-slope addition roof meets a steep original one. Dolington has no offices of its own, so the roof permit comes from Upper Makefield Township under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
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The original roofs on these buildings are simple and steep, and nearly all the trouble sits at the point where a later addition was tied into them.
Where a newer wing meets an old roof, step flashing is usually the weak point.
Steep planes shed water well but need real staging and safety setup to work on.
Old masonry chimneys need counterflashing cut into the joint, not sealant on the surface.
Upper Makefield Township issues Dolington roof permits under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Dolington · Buckmanville · Jericho · Washington Crossing · Woodhill · Lurgan
Upper Makefield Township. Dolington is a place name and a census place rather than a borough, so there is no local office of its own, and the township reviews the roof permit and sends the inspector under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. We file it and coordinate the inspection as part of the job.
That is the most common leak location on a house like this. Water running down the original roof hits the addition wall, and if the step flashing was surface-mounted or sealed rather than woven into the courses, it eventually gets behind. Rebuilding that junction properly fixes it for good.
Caulk is a stopgap on masonry and it fails every few years. Proper counterflashing is cut into a mortar joint and laps over the step flashing beneath it, so water is directed out rather than held back by sealant. We rebuild it that way during a replacement rather than re-sealing what is already failing.
Usually, yes. Steep pitches need roof jacks, staging and slower, safer work, so the labor is higher even though the material is the same. The upside is that steep roofs shed water and debris well and tend to last longer than shallow ones, so the interval between replacements is longer.
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