MG ROOFING
Philadelphia · Built Strong
Cheltenham & Abington · 19012 · 19027 · 19001 · 19046
The Old York Road corridor, straight over the northern city line: big stone singles and twins with steep pitches and deep cornices, then capes and split-levels on deep lots under mature trees.
What we see here
Century-old houses with century-old drainage details, and long fascia runs carrying a great deal more roof than they were ever sized for. Up here the box gutter and the cornice are where the roof actually fails, and the ceiling is the last place it shows.
Street by street
Cheltenham & Abington is not one kind of house, and the zip code you are in changes what tends to be wrong with the roof. Here is what we find where.
Stone twins and singles just over the northern city line, with steep pitches and deep cornices carrying built-in gutters. Century-old drainage details on century-old houses, and long fascia runs carrying a good deal more roof than they were ever sized for.
Large stone and stucco singles on deep lots with complicated roofs — multiple planes, valleys, dormers and chimneys. These are the jobs where the flashing schedule matters more than the shingle, and where we spend the longest on the estimate.
Capes and split-levels on deep lots under mature trees, with shallower pitches and heavy leaf load. Gutter capacity and guards do real work here, and ice at the eave is a genuine winter problem on the low-pitch stock.
A dense old borough of twins and singles with steep pitches, slate-shaped planes and a lot of original detail worth keeping. We work in architectural shingle and aluminium here, and we will tell you plainly when a roof is slate and outside what we do.
Recent work
Century-old houses with century-old drainage details, and long fascia runs carrying a great deal more roof than they were ever sized for. Up here the box gutter and the cornice are where the roof actually fails, and the ceiling is the last place it shows. What fails on them fails the same way every time, which is why we can usually tell you on the phone what we expect to find before we are on the ladder. Drag the handle — both frames are one roof, from one standing position.
Straight answers
Free estimate
Tell us what you are looking at and we will come and look at it — and we will tell you honestly what it needs, including the times the answer is nothing yet.
