MG ROOFING
Philadelphia · Built Strong
Upper Darby & Drexel Hill · 19082 · 19026 · 19018
The first thing over the city line on the west side, and built like it — unbroken brick rows on flat and low-slope roofs, then stone and brick twins on the tree-lined streets behind them.
What we see here
Rowhome roofs with a suburban address: same cap sheet, same box gutters, same party-wall flashing as the West Philadelphia rows they run into. On a twin that means a shared roof plane — we flash the party wall properly rather than tarring over the seam and calling it done.
Street by street
Upper Darby & Drexel Hill 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.
Unbroken brick rows on flat and low-slope roofs — rowhome roofs with a suburban address, running straight into the West Philadelphia stock they were built to match. Cap sheet, party-wall flashing and box gutters, the same as the city side of the line.
Stone and brick twins on tree-lined streets, most of them sharing a roof plane with the house next door. A twin means a party wall in the middle of the roof, and we flash that seam properly rather than tarring over it and calling it finished.
Smaller twins and rows on tighter lots, a lot of them still on original box gutters and shallow rear additions. The additions are where we are usually called: a low-slope roof tied into a pitched one, with the tie-in never detailed correctly.
Recent work
Rowhome roofs with a suburban address: same cap sheet, same box gutters, same party-wall flashing as the West Philadelphia rows they run into. On a twin that means a shared roof plane — we flash the party wall properly rather than tarring over the seam and calling it done. 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.
