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A Cheltenham Township section on the Philadelphia line, where Old York Road and Ashbourne Road frame blocks of pre-war twins and stone singles.
Melrose Park is not its own municipality. It is a section of Cheltenham Township pressed against the Philadelphia border, bounded roughly by Cheltenham Avenue, Old York Road, New Second Street and Ashbourne Road. The housing reads accordingly: brick and stone twins, center-hall colonials and porch-front singles from the decades before the war, on lots that leave little space between one roof and the next.
Maze Roofing works this kind of stock the way it needs to be worked. Dormer and chimney flashing first, valley metal replaced rather than reused, ice-and-water membrane carried up from the eaves, attic ventilation checked before anything is nailed down. Permits for a roof here go through Cheltenham Township under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
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On houses this old the trouble sits at the transitions: a chimney counterflashing, a dormer cheek, or a porch roof tied into a wall that has moved.
Counterflashing cut into the joint instead of smeared over the brick.
Membrane run above the wall line so meltwater cannot back up under shingles.
Staging, tear-off and debris handled where houses sit close together.
We file the roofing permit with Cheltenham Township and handle the inspection.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Yes, and it is filed with Cheltenham Township, not the county and not Philadelphia, even though you are a block from the city line. Melrose Park is part of Cheltenham, so the township issues the permit under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. We handle the paperwork and meet the inspector.
Usually yes. The work stops at the party wall, and the detail that matters is how we terminate at that wall and flash the joint so water does not travel into your side or your neighbor’s. If both halves are due, doing them together gives a cleaner line and one continuous membrane.
Freeze-thaw cycling plus warm attic air. Heat escaping into the attic melts snow on the upper roof, the runoff refreezes at the cold eave, and the dam pushes water back under the shingles. The fix is ventilation and insulation together with ice-and-water underlayment at the eaves, not a bigger gutter.
Architectural asphalt shingle is the default and it suits these houses well. If the original slate is still up and largely sound, repair can be the better call. Low-slope porch and sunroom sections get their own system, usually EPDM or standing-seam metal, rather than shingle on a pitch that cannot carry it.
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