Roofers for Glenside and Keswick Village
Keswick Village is the center of Glenside, and Glenside is not a borough at all — the name straddles Cheltenham and Abington townships without a municipal line of its own. Housing around it runs to 1920s stone and stucco: Tudors, colonial revivals, twins with deep porches, on lots subdivided when the trains set the pace. Arcadia University sits in the middle of it, and the trees are older than most of the roofs.
Glenside is covered by our Willow Grove office in Montgomery County. That is the crew that takes the call, quotes the job and does the work — one local team, not a dispatch centre.
Everything runs from Willow Grove, a short drive down Easton Road: leak repair, replacement, installation on additions and dormers, gutter work, inspection, and a call answered on a Sunday night when a ceiling is wet. The short drive matters, because the 1920s stock here rewards diagnosis over guesswork, and diagnosis means being on the roof and in the attic rather than squinting at a photograph. A stain in a stone house seldom comes from the field of the roof. It comes from a chimney tarred instead of counterflashed, a valley patched twice, or a stucco wall meeting a roof plane with no kickout at the bottom.
Plenty of Glenside roofs started life as slate. When they were converted to asphalt, the spaced board decking underneath sometimes got sheathed properly and sometimes did not, and you can feel the difference walking it. Where it was skipped, fasteners land in the gaps, shingles pivot in wind, and the plane reads wavy from the sidewalk. Steep pitch also means the roof sheds fast and the gutter has to catch water arriving at speed, so gutter position matters as much as gutter size. Rear additions and porch roofs at low slope take membrane, and every junction with stone or stucco takes step flashing and a kickout rather than sealant.
Roofs in Glenside
Behind the storefronts and theater frontage of Keswick Village sit flat and low-slope roofs hidden by parapets, while the streets running off Easton Road are all steep pitch under a canopy that closes overhead by June. The Arcadia University grounds add another stand of mature specimen trees on the Cheltenham Township side. Shade is the constant here: a north-facing plane in Glenside can stay damp for weeks through a wet spring, and the black streaking people notice on a neighbor's roof is a symptom of exactly what is lifting shingle edges on their own.
- All Pro Home Improvement And Roofing
- Phone: (267) 209-8878
- Hours: Open 24 hours, seven days a week
- Licensed & insured in Pennsylvania — #PA052821
- Serving: Willow Grove and Montgomery County
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- Wheelchair accessible parking lot
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
- Wheelchair accessible seating
This is the serving office for Glenside. We do not maintain a separate address in Glenside itself.
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Roofing in Glenside — common questions
Do you handle the flat roofs behind the Keswick Village storefronts?
Yes. Attached commercial buildings there are almost all low-slope behind a parapet, which is membrane work — TPO, EPDM or modified bitumen depending on what is up there now and what penetrates it. The failures are nearly always at edges, curbs and drains rather than in the middle of the field. We inspect the terminations first and quote from what is actually found.
My house had slate once and has asphalt now. Does that history matter?
It matters a great deal. Slate was laid on spaced boards with gaps between them, and when a roof was converted to asphalt those boards should have been sheathed over first. Where that was skipped, nails land in the gaps, shingles pivot in wind, and the plane looks wavy from the street. We check the decking during inspection, because it changes the scope of any replacement.
What are the black streaks running down my roof?
Algae, and the shade is what feeds it. Glenside's canopy keeps north-facing planes damp long enough for growth to take hold, and the streaks run downward because that is how spores travel. On their own they are cosmetic. The problem is what follows: moss establishing at the shingle butts, lifting the course above it and holding water against the nail line. That stage is worth acting on.
Glenside is split between two townships. Does that affect who covers it?
Not for us. Cheltenham and Abington townships both fall to the Willow Grove office, so the municipal line running through Glenside makes no difference to scheduling or to who picks up at (267) 209-8878. It can matter for permits, since those rules follow the township your property actually sits in, and we work to whatever applies at your address.
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