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Estate-era houses along Old York Road, where the roof is often slate, tile or standing-seam copper rather than asphalt. Those get handled differently.
Elkins Park was built when Philadelphia money moved out Old York Road, and the housing still reflects it. Large stone and brick houses, gambrels and Tudors, the Elkins Estate itself, and a surrounding fabric of substantial twins and singles from the same decades. Many of these roofs were never asphalt. Slate, clay tile, and standing-seam and flat-lock copper are all common here.
Our first job on a house like that is to work out whether the existing roof can be saved, because a sound slate field with failed flashing is a repair, not a replacement. When replacement is right we price both a like-for-like restoration and a good asphalt system. Permits are issued by Cheltenham Township under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
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On roofs a century old the slate is often still sound while the nails, valley metal, chimney flashing and built-in gutters have given out underneath it.
Whether the field is sound and the failure is really in the metal.
Valley liners, gutters and flashings replaced in metal that lasts as long as slate.
Staging and fall protection planned for tall, steep estate-era roof planes.
Elkins Park roof permits are filed with Cheltenham Township under state code.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
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Not necessarily, and we would rather not. If the slate is sound and the failure is at valleys, nails or chimney flashing, a proper repair buys decades for a fraction of the cost. We tell you honestly when the field is spent, and we price the alternatives side by side.
Cheltenham Township. Elkins Park is a postal and census name inside the township, so all permitting and inspection runs through the township office under the PA Uniform Construction Code. If you are changing the roof material rather than replacing in kind, tell us early so we handle the review properly.
Technically yes, and plenty of neighbors have. It costs far less and a good architectural shingle performs well. It changes how the house reads from the street and is not reversible, so it is worth deciding deliberately rather than defaulting to it because a contractor only quoted one option.
Built-in or box gutters sit inside the roof edge, and once they hold ice the water has nowhere to go but backward into the cornice. They need a continuous liner and a clear pitch to the outlet. Ice-and-water protection above them helps, but the liner is the real fix.
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