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A borough between the Delaware River and the Delaware Canal, with 202 contributing buildings. Roofing sized to houses built before 1925.
Yardley Borough sits between the Delaware River and the Delaware Canal, and 202 of its buildings contribute to a historic district spanning roughly 1728 to 1925. Georgian and Federal stone, Carpenter Gothic, Queen Anne, Italianate, Foursquare and Craftsman along Main Street and Afton, College and Letchworth Avenues, with the modest canal-side worker houses on Canal Street. Steep roofs, dormers, box gutters, slate and low-slope porch roofs.
Old roofs on low ground need the details right: ice-and-water at eaves and valleys, real step flashing where a roof meets stone, EPDM or TPO on the flat porch roofs rather than shingles laid too shallow, and attic ventilation that keeps the overhangs cold. Yardley Borough has a HARB, so exterior work in the district is reviewed before the borough issues a permit.
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Between the canal, the river and a housing stock a century old, Yardley roofs fail at the edges first, at eaves, box gutters, porch roofs and the flashing against stone.
Built-in gutters on the old houses need lining and flashing, not a shingle patch.
Front and back porch roofs too shallow for shingles get EPDM or TPO instead.
Ice-and-water membrane at the eaves and a cold attic above the heated space.
Historic district work goes to HARB first, then the borough codes office, and we file both.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Yardley Historic District · Canal Street · Lake Afton · Yardley Walk · Yardley Hunt · Edgewood Village · Arborlea
If your house is in the borough’s historic district and the roof is visible from a public street, expect it. Yardley Borough’s HARB reviews exterior changes and recommends to Borough Council, and the permit follows that. If your mail says Yardley but the parcel is in Lower Makefield Township, you file with the township instead. We check the parcel first.
No, and that is usually why it leaks. Asphalt shingles need pitch to shed water, and a porch roof at one or two inches in twelve will hold it instead. A single-ply membrane, EPDM or TPO, with the flashing carried up under the wall, is the right system there and it ties into the shingle field cleanly.
Often, yes. Hard slate outlives the nails and the flashing that hold it, so the leak is usually a failed valley, a cracked chimney apron or rusted fasteners rather than the slate itself. We count the broken pieces, look at the underside from the attic where we can, and tell you whether repair buys you another twenty years.
The roof itself, no. But water low in an old Yardley house and water at the eaves come from the same habit of moving moisture where you do not want it, so we look at attic humidity, bath and dryer venting, and whether the soffit intake has been painted shut. Those show up as sheathing rot long before shingles quit.
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