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A shaded college borough of Victorian and 1920s houses above Crum Creek. Roofing built for canopy, moss and constant debris.
Swarthmore is a compact borough wrapped around its college, with roughly a third of the land in campus and a canopy of mature trees over most of the rest. The houses run Victorian through the 1920s: deep porches, dormers, third-floor gables, and slate still in place on some of them. Crum Creek forms the western edge and the ground falls toward it.
Shade keeps roofs wet, and wet roofs grow moss, hold leaf litter in the valleys and stay slick well into the morning. We clear and rebuild valleys, keep debris paths open, and specify algae-resistant shingle where the canopy is heaviest. Permits are issued by Swarthmore Borough under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
The full Maze Roofing range, residential and commercial, from the local team.
Shingle, tile, metal and flat roofing for homes and townhomes across the area.
Shingle, tile, metal, flat and TPO. Managed from tear-off to cleanup.
Flat, TPO and metal systems, with maintenance programs that protect the asset.
Storm damage, active leaks and fallen trees, with 24/7 phone response.
Constant shade, falling limbs and packed leaf litter keep moisture against the shingles and choke the valleys, which is how a good roof fails early here.
Shaded slopes specified with algae-resistant shingle and cleaned rather than scraped bare.
Valleys rebuilt open where leaf litter would otherwise dam the water every autumn.
Impact points from falling branches checked across the deck, not just the surface.
Swarthmore Borough issues the roofing permit under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
The borough issues the permit and inspects the work under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. That is a municipal process, not a county one, and we file it for you. If your property carries any additional approval requirement we confirm it with the borough before we start.
It does over time. Moss holds water against the shingle and can lift the edges of the courses, which shortens the life of that slope. We clean it properly rather than pressure washing it off, and on replacement we use algae-resistant granules and keep overhanging limbs off the roof where we can.
Sometimes, but we look at the deck before deciding. Impact from a limb can crack sheathing and pop nails several feet from the obvious damage, and a surface patch over a compromised deck leaks later. We document what we find so you have it for an insurance claim if there is one.
If the slate is sound and the flashing can be renewed, keeping it is usually the better long-term choice. Where the nails have failed across the field or the slate itself is delaminating, replacement makes more sense. We give you the condition of the underlayment and fasteners, then the cost of each path.
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