MG ROOFING
Philadelphia · Built Strong
Fishtown & Port Richmond · 19125 · 19134 · 19137
The river wards: old brick rows with flat roofs, parapets and built-in gutters, half of them mid-renovation and half of them still original. Cap-sheet and box-gutter country either way.
What we see here
A lot of these roofs have had three different contractors on them. We tear off rather than add a fourth layer — and where a leak shows on the top-floor wall instead of the ceiling, the box gutter is nearly always the culprit.
Street by street
Fishtown & Port Richmond 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.
Brick rows with flat roofs, parapets on the party walls, and a renovation rate high enough that half the roofs have had three contractors on them. Roof decks are common and they are a leak source in their own right — the pedestal frame gets set on a membrane nobody flashed properly.
Larger, later rows with a lot more original fabric left, which means built-in box gutters behind the cornice on a great many of them. When a Port Richmond leak shows on the top-floor wall rather than the ceiling, the box gutter is nearly always the answer.
Recent work
A lot of these roofs have had three different contractors on them. We tear off rather than add a fourth layer — and where a leak shows on the top-floor wall instead of the ceiling, the box gutter is nearly always the culprit. 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.
