Licensed & Insured · Serving Florida, Pennsylvania & New Jersey
Greater Philadelphia: (267) 692-2511
Where 1900s stone houses meet college-town rentals, and the roofs ask for slate work, copper flashing and straight answers.
Bryn Mawr straddles Lower Merion, Haverford and Radnor townships, and the Montgomery County side is the old part. The blocks around the station and Bryn Mawr College run to rowhomes, half-doubles and detached stone singles built roughly 1900 through the 1930s, with steep pitches, deep valleys, dormers and slate. The Mill Creek Historic District climbs toward Gladwyne. Roughly half the local population is college age, so many of these houses are rentals.
We handle both sides of that. Slate repair and replacement, synthetic slate, cedar, copper valley and chimney work on the owner-occupied stone houses, and documented scopes for landlords who need the roof right and the number defensible. Permits go through the Lower Merion Township Building and Planning Department, and we close them out.
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.
Many Bryn Mawr roofs are on a second or third life, and rental turnover means small leaks sit longer than they should before anyone gets up there to look.
A slate roof missing tiles is often repairable, and we say so instead of selling a tear-off.
Deep complex valleys on steep roofs get membrane underneath and metal done properly.
Clear photos, a clear scope and a number a landlord can actually budget against.
Reroofs need a township permit, and listed historic resources also go before HARB.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Mill Creek Historic District · Bryn Mawr College Historic District · Old Gulph Road · New Gulph Road · Morris Avenue · Yarrow Street · Rosemont
Every reroof needs a building permit from Lower Merion Township. Beyond that it depends on the address: properties inside a historic district like Mill Creek, or on the township’s historic resource list, also go before the Historical Architectural Review Board, which can weigh in on material and appearance. We check your parcel before quoting so there are no surprises.
Often yes. Good Pennsylvania slate outlives the nails and the flashing that hold it, so a roof that is losing tiles at the valleys and the chimney may need those rebuilt rather than the whole field replaced. We get up on it and count what is actually broken, then tell you how many years a repair realistically buys.
You get photos of what we found, a written scope tied to those photos, and a plain explanation of what is necessary versus what is optional. If the roof only needs the rear slope and the flashing, that is what we quote. No scare tactics and no upselling, an honest read on your roof.
It is a legitimate choice and plenty of Bryn Mawr homes have made it. Understand the tradeoffs: asphalt costs far less and lasts a fraction as long, and on a steep roof with dormers it changes how the house reads from the street. If the address is a listed historic resource, HARB may also have an opinion.
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