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Two old villages joined by a post office: stone houses from the 1880s to the 1920s, plus post-war splits east of Manayunk Road.
Bala and Cynwyd were separate places before the mail joined them. What is left is a Main Line community with two stations on the Cynwyd Line, a commercial spine along Bala and Montgomery Avenues, and stone houses built mostly between 1880 and the 1920s. East of Manayunk Road the pattern changes to split-level tract housing put up right after the war. The Cynwyd Heritage Trail runs the old rail bed.
Pre-war stone houses here often carry slate, tile or heavy asphalt on steep pitches, with copper valleys and lined gutters. We repair those where repair is honest and replace in kind where it is not. The post-war side is straightforward asphalt work. Permits for roof replacement come from Lower Merion Township 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.
On a hundred-year-old stone house the leak is usually copper, mortar or a built-in gutter rather than the roof covering itself.
Lined box gutters on older houses fail long before the roof above does.
Original copper is often worth relining rather than converting to shingle.
Stone chimneys need mortar and counterflashing addressed with the roof.
Roof permits for Bala Cynwyd are issued by Lower Merion Township.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Bala · Cynwyd · Bala Avenue · Montgomery Avenue · Levering Mill Road · Manayunk Road
Lower Merion Township. Bala Cynwyd is a postal community inside the township, so the permit comes from Lower Merion under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, not from Montgomery County and not from Philadelphia, even though City Avenue is the line. We file with the township and coordinate inspection.
On a stone house from the 1890s or 1900s, yes. Built-in or box gutters are part of the cornice and they are lined rather than hung. When the lining fails the water goes into the wood behind it, not onto the ground. Relining is specialist work, and it often causes a leak blamed on the roof.
Usually, if the slate itself is sound. What generally fails first is the fastening, the copper in the valleys and the flashing at chimneys and dormers, all of which are repairable. Replacing a serviceable slate roof with asphalt lowers the house, and on these streets it shows from the sidewalk.
Same standards, simpler roof. Post-war split-levels here are straightforward asphalt work, with the attention going to roof-to-wall transitions, the dead valley where the levels meet, and attic ventilation that was never generous. The permit still comes from Lower Merion Township either way.
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