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A canal village on the Schuylkill in Upper Providence Township, strung along the towpath near Lock 60, with narrow houses and shallow porch roofs.
Port Providence was Lumberville until the 1840s, a working stop on the Schuylkill Navigation with stables for canal mules and a store for boat supplies. What is left is a narrow strip of village along the river and the restored canal near Lock 60, inside Upper Providence Township. The houses are tall and thin and close to the road, with porches and rear additions under very shallow pitches.
Those shallow sections are the job. Shingle does not belong on them, so we specify EPDM or standing-seam metal and detail the transition into the main roof and the wall above it. Steep front planes get proper starter and ice-and-water at the eave. The permit comes from Upper Providence Township under the PA Uniform Construction Code.
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Shingle, tile, metal, flat and TPO. Managed from tear-off to cleanup.
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Storm damage, active leaks and fallen trees, with 24/7 phone response.
When a roof is mostly edges, valleys and wall junctions rather than open field, the metal is what keeps water out, and the metal is what ages first.
EPDM or metal used where the pitch is too shallow for shingle.
Step and counterflashing where a roof dies into a taller neighboring wall.
Towpath shade and river fog keep the lower slopes slow to dry out.
Upper Providence Township issues the roofing permit for Port Providence.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Not safely. Below about a three-in-twelve pitch, shingles let water back up under the courses and the roof leaks no matter how well it is nailed. A membrane like EPDM or a standing-seam metal panel is the right system, and the join into the main roof gets flashed properly.
For a replacement, yes, and it goes to Upper Providence Township. Port Providence is a village inside that township, so the township’s code office is the permitting authority under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code. Small isolated repairs often do not require one, and we will tell you which you have.
That is the canal corridor doing what it does. Shade from the towpath trees plus river fog means the lower slopes stay wet well into the day, which is ideal for moss. We clean it, check what the moisture has done at the shingle edges, and use algae-resistant product on replacement.
Practically, it is access and edges. Houses sit close to the road with little room to stage, and there is more flashing per square foot than on a modern house. We plan the drop and the dumpster in advance and spend the time where it counts, which is the metal.
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