Lehigh County
Roofing contractor
in Allentown.
Replacement, repair and storm work across the city, from the row homes downtown to the Victorians in the West End. Free inspection, photographed, with a straight answer.
Lehigh County
Replacement, repair and storm work across the city, from the row homes downtown to the Victorians in the West End. Free inspection, photographed, with a straight answer.
What breaks in Allentown. Much of the city is row homes and twins with shared walls, and where two roofs meet is where water gets in. Flashing, party wall caps and the seams around rear additions cause more leaks here than worn out shingles do.
The housing stock
Center City is dense. Roofs run together, rear additions are often low slope, and access is tight enough that where the dumpster goes has to be worked out before the tear-off starts, not the morning of.
The West End is a different animal. Steep pitches, dormers, turrets and long valleys, some of it originally slate. Steep and cut up takes longer than a simple gable, and anybody quoting it like a ranch has not been up there.
Out toward Upper Macungie and the newer developments the roofs are straightforward architectural shingle, and most of those come off and go back on in a single day.
Around the city
Recent work in Allentown
All Allentown homes. Listed by town rather than address, because they are people's houses.
Allentown questions
Usually the party wall between you, and usually it belongs to both of you.
On a shared wall the flashing and the cap are the failure point, and fixing one side without the other tends not to hold. The inspection will show you photos of what is happening up there so the conversation with the neighbor is about evidence rather than opinion.
Most are done in a single day.
The bigger variable downtown is access and where materials and debris can sit, which gets sorted before the day starts.
Depends on the condition of the slate and the deck underneath.
Some are worth repairing and some have been patched past the point of sense. That is a look-first conversation, and you will get a straight read on it rather than an automatic pitch for a full replacement.
Yes. Hail and wind damage gets documented the way a carrier needs to see it before you file.
Full detail on how a claim runs is on the storm damage page.
Free inspection anywhere in Allentown, photographed, and an answer on whether it needs work or has time left.