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Pre-war twins and bungalows above Newton Creek, nearly all of them with a front porch roof that needs a system of its own.
Oaklyn is an inner-ring borough of under four thousand, wrapped around Newton Creek and Newton Lake and cut through by the White Horse Pike. The houses date mostly from 1900 to 1940: twins, bungalows and foursquares with full-width front porches. Almost every one of those porches has a shallow roof that was never meant to carry asphalt shingle.
We quote the porch separately because it usually needs a membrane or a metal panel, flashed up under the main roof and into the wall above. The main roof gets a standard tear-off with new valley and eave metal. Roofing permits in Oaklyn are issued and inspected by the borough’s own construction office under the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code.
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The shallow porch roofs on Oaklyn’s pre-war houses hold water at every shingle lap, and the leak shows up inside at the wall rather than the ceiling.
Shallow porch decks want EPDM or standing seam, not shingle bent over the pitch.
Where the porch meets the house wall, proper metal has to run up behind the siding.
Attached houses share a plane, so the party wall joint gets counterflashed properly.
Oaklyn Borough’s construction office issues the roof permit and inspects the finished work.
Same office, same crews, a short drive away.
Almost always the joint where the porch roof meets the house, not the middle of the porch roof. If the flashing there does not run up behind the siding, water tracks down the wall inside. That junction has to be opened and rebuilt; sealing the surface will not hold.
Yes. Oaklyn’s own construction office handles the permit and the inspection under the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code. The county has no role in roofing permits in New Jersey. We file the application, pull the permit before the tear-off and meet the inspector afterward.
It should be. Doing both together means one set of staging, one flashing plan and one warranty conversation, and it prevents the classic problem of a new main roof draining onto an old porch. We price them as separate systems on the same job.
Not for work on your own half, but we do need access to the shared roof plane and we have to terminate the new work properly at the party wall. We talk to the neighbor before we start so the staging is not a surprise. If they are also due, doing both is cleaner.
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