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Northampton Township subdivisions off Buck Road and Holland Road, forty years on. Replacement roofing for streets that were built all at once.
Holland is the southern section of Northampton Township, laid out along Buck Road and Holland Road in a run of subdivisions built from the 1960s through the 1990s. Commuter trains stopped running to Holland in 1983, and the area filled in as car suburb after that. The housing is consistent: two-story colonials, splits and bi-levels on quarter-acre to half-acre lots, with Council Rock schools and mature street trees now grown in over the roofs.
Consistency is convenient. Houses built together share the same pitch, the same vent layout and often the same original shingle, so we know where to look before we get on the roof. We replace valleys and boots rather than reusing them, and correct the soffit intake these builders usually skimped on. Permits are issued by Northampton Township under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
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When a development goes up in two seasons, its roofs reach the end of their second covering together, and the same builder shortcut shows up house after house.
Soffit intake was often undersized, leaving attics that cook in summer and sweat in winter.
Many of these houses are on a second covering that is now itself at the end.
Street trees planted at build-out now overhang roofs and fill valleys each fall.
Northampton Township issues Holland roof permits under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Holland · Richboro · Churchville · Jacksonville · Spring Garden · Rush Valley
Yes. Holland is a census place and a postal name, and Northampton Township is the municipality that issues the roof permit and performs the inspection under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. Bucks County does not review residential roofing, and parcels out toward Richboro or Churchville are still Northampton.
Some developments here have covenants that cover exterior materials and colors, and others have none at all. Check your own documents before choosing, because an association approval is separate from the township permit and neither substitutes for the other. We can work to whatever palette your association allows.
That usually points at the attic rather than the air conditioning. If intake at the soffits is blocked or undersized, the ridge vent has nothing to pull and the attic holds heat all afternoon. Opening intake and balancing it against exhaust during a replacement makes a noticeable difference in the second floor.
Compare the shingle to your neighbors’ oldest-looking roofs, and check whether it is a flat three-tab or a dimensional architectural shingle, since the latter suggests a later replacement. Closing documents sometimes say. During an inspection we can usually tell from the layer count, the flashing and the vent hardware.
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