Roof Work in Jenkintown Borough
Jenkintown packs a lot into six-tenths of a square mile. The borough is walkable in a way most of Montgomery County is not, with Victorian and early 1900s houses standing shoulder to shoulder on narrow lots either side of Old York Road and a commercial spine of attached buildings running through the middle. Almost every roof here is steeper than average, older than average, or attached to something.
Jenkintown 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.
Repairs, replacements, new roof systems on additions, gutters, inspections and emergency work all come out of Willow Grove, four miles up Old York Road. Distance matters less here than access does. A borough lot leaves nowhere obvious for a dumpster, the driveway is shared or nonexistent, and the neighbor's roof is close enough that debris control belongs in the plan rather than in the apology afterwards. We walk the site before quoting, settle where material lands and where the truck sits, and tell you what the street will look like for the days we are there. Then the itemized estimate arrives with the flashing details written out line by line.
Steep and cut-up is the norm. A house from the 1890s carries short planes meeting at odd angles, dormers with their own small valleys, and a masonry chimney that four different people have flashed and re-flashed. Many were built for slate, so the decking underneath is spaced boards, and asphalt cannot be laid to specification over that until sheathing goes down first. Older houses in the borough also have built-in gutters set into the roof edge rather than hung on the fascia. Those get relined and repaired, not swapped for a hung gutter, and getting the detail wrong sends water down inside the wall.
Roofs in Jenkintown
Old York Road and Township Line Road cut the borough into blocks laid out before anyone owned a car, which is why the houses sit so close and the roofs run so steep. Trains have come through the Jenkintown–Wyncote station for well over a century, and the streets around it and out toward Rydal carry street trees planted in the same era, now leaning over slate-pitch roofs. A north plane that steep stays damp all winter under that shade, and the moss that follows lifts shingle edges one course at a time.
- 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
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This is the serving office for Jenkintown. We do not maintain a separate address in Jenkintown itself.
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Roofing in Jenkintown — common questions
Where does the dumpster go on a street this tight?
We work that out before quoting, not on the morning of. Options are usually a driveway if there is one, a permitted spot on the street, or a dump trailer that comes and goes rather than sitting for two days. The borough sets the rules on street placement and we work to whatever applies on your block. Neighbors get told what is happening and when it ends.
My gutters are built into the edge of the roof. Can they be saved?
Usually, and saving them is generally the right call on an older Jenkintown house. A built-in gutter is a wooden trough forming part of the roof structure, so replacing it with a hung gutter means rebuilding the eave and changing how the house looks from the street. What actually fails is the lining and its soldered joints. Those get stripped back, the wood beneath repaired, and a new lining installed.
Does a steep Victorian roof cost more to work on?
It takes longer, which is the honest version of the answer. Steep pitch means staging, roof jacks and slower movement, and a cut-up roof with dormers and turret planes carries far more linear feet of flashing than field shingle. Neither of those is a mystery once somebody has measured the roof, which is why the estimate is itemized by area and by detail rather than handed over as one number.
How fast can someone reach Jenkintown for an active leak?
The office answering is in Willow Grove, four miles up Old York Road, and the line is staffed around the clock at (267) 209-8878. First priority is stopping water entering the house, which after dark usually means a fastened temporary cover rather than a repair. Diagnosis waits for daylight and a roof dry enough to walk safely. Both stages get explained before either one starts.
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