Roofing in Lower Merion, PA
Lower Merion's Main Line houses carry some of the finest old roofs in the region, and they reward careful repair.
Lower Merion roof work is mostly repairing and maintaining slate, tile and copper on older stone houses, plus shingle and flat roofs on newer homes and additions. Slate repair, copper flashing, box gutters and chimney work lead the calls, and historic review applies to some properties.
What the Roofs Look Like Here
Lower Merion's great houses went up from the latter half of the nineteenth century, many built by Pennsylvania Railroad and Baldwin Locomotive Works officers along the Main Line, in local stone with slate and tile roofs. Many of those roofs, and the copper around them, are still in place.
Around them sit early twentieth-century twins and singles in Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd and Merion, and newer houses with shingle roofs, so a single street can carry three or four roofing materials.
Work We Do Most in Lower Merion
Slate and tile repairs, copper valley and flashing work, box gutter relining in copper, chimney rebuilds, shingle replacements on newer homes and flat roof repairs over porches and additions.
A Typical Job in Lower Merion
On a Main Line stone house, a typical visit replaces broken slates with matched slate on copper hooks, renews a worn copper valley and checks the box gutters and chimney flashing. Full slate replacement is rare; the slate usually outlasts its fasteners and flashing by decades.
Permits and Paperwork
Lower Merion Township protects many historic resources, and street-facing changes to those properties need review. We check before any visible change to roofing materials is scheduled.
Around Lower Merion
We cover Lower Merion Township, including Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd, Bryn Mawr, Gladwyne, Haverford, Merion, Penn Valley and Wynnewood. See also our Montgomery County page and nearby Abington, Cheltenham, Norristown, King of Prussia, Upper Darby, Overbrook, Roxborough.
Questions From Lower Merion
Yes, and we check the township's historic review before visible changes.
Usually repaired. Good slate outlasts its nails and flashing.
Yes: valleys, flashing, box gutter linings and half-round gutters.
Yes. We walk the roof and report on slate, flashing and gutters with photos.
Slate or Copper Problem in Lower Merion?
Call with your street. We will tell you what the roof needs.