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Woodlyn addresses sit inside Ridley Township, and the housing is mostly capes and twins with dormers cut into the slope. Those dormers are where leaks start.
Woodlyn is one of Ridley Township’s older villages, north of MacDade Boulevard, and the housing reflects the years either side of the Second World War. A good deal of it is capes and twins with shed or gable dormers added into the roof slope to make the upstairs usable, plus small rear additions that came later. The rooflines are modest but broken up.
Every dormer adds two sidewalls and a valley, so that is where we concentrate: step flashing built into the courses, valleys in metal, and ice-and-water membrane where the dormer roof meets the main field. The permit for any of this comes from Ridley Township under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, not from a Woodlyn office.
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Each dormer introduces sidewalls, a valley and a roof-to-roof junction, and on a small house those few details account for most of the leaks.
Sidewall step flashing must be layered with the shingles, never run as one strip.
Finished upstairs rooms squeeze ventilation, which cooks shingles from the underside.
Later rear additions meet the original roof at a junction that often needs rebuilding.
Woodlyn has no code office, so Ridley Township issues and inspects the roofing permit.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
No. Woodlyn is a postal name and a census place inside Ridley Township. For roofing, the permit, the fee and the inspection all come from Ridley Township under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. We file the application on your behalf and handle the inspection scheduling.
On a cape with dormers it is usually the dormer sidewall flashing or the valley beside it, rather than the open field of the roof. Water runs down the sidewall and gets behind a poorly layered piece of metal. We trace it from the attic side wherever we can get access.
Somewhat. Capes with finished second floors have very little attic space, so airflow between the insulation and the decking matters. Baffles at the eaves, a ridge vent, and sometimes air chutes in each rafter bay make a real difference, and they also stop the shingles aging early.
More than most people think. Meltwater refreezes at the cold overhang, builds a dam, and then backs up under the shingles into the wall or the ceiling. Ice-and-water membrane along the eaves and up the valleys is the defense, and it is standard on the roofs we install here.
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