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Nineteen-forties workforce housing beside the old Johnsville base, now resident-owned. Small, plain roofs that all reached the same age at the same time.
Warminster Heights began as 1940s workforce housing put up beside the Johnsville plant that later became the Naval Air Development Center. The houses are small, plain and tightly grouped, many of them attached, and residents own them through a home ownership association rather than a conventional subdivision. Street after street shares the same footprint, the same pitch and the same modest attic.
That uniformity is useful. Once we have looked at one building we know what the next one will need, and we can price a run of attached units properly instead of guessing. Ventilation and eave detailing are the two things that make the most difference on this stock. Permits are issued by Warminster Township under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code.
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Original construction here was economical: minimal attic space, short overhangs and shared roof planes that need a single coordinated job rather than several small ones.
Attached houses share a continuous deck, so blocks are re-roofed as one.
Little room above the ceiling means intake and exhaust have to be deliberate.
Narrow overhangs put meltwater and driven rain close to the wall.
Warminster Township issues the permit under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Warminster Township, under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. Warminster Heights is a census place inside the township and does not issue permits itself. If your home is part of a resident-owned association, that body may also need to approve the work, and the two approvals run in parallel rather than one after the other.
It can be done, but the seam where new meets old becomes the weak point, and a few years later it is usually the leak. If neighbors in the block are close to due as well, a coordinated job gives a continuous roof and a lower price per house. We are happy to quote both ways.
Usually, yes. Both point at an attic that is not getting enough air moving through it, which traps summer heat and lets winter warmth melt snow that then refreezes at the eave. On a house with very little attic space the answer is a careful combination of intake at the eave and exhaust near the ridge, planned during the re-roof.
No, usually the opposite. Setup, tear-off, permit, disposal and cleanup do not shrink with the roof, so a small house costs more per square than a large one. Where small houses are attached, doing several together spreads that fixed cost and is the main way to bring the number down honestly.
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