Del River Roofing

Roofing across Greater Philadelphia

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An old roof rarely gives out in the field. It gives out at the joints and the edges. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field — the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1 — ridge caps 1 Ridge caps — thin, exposed, first to lift Point 2 — the field of the roof 2 The field — slate or shingle, aging Point 3 — valleys 3 Leaf load mats where two slopes drain as one Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — old masonry, and the wall an attached house shares Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — where the porch roof meets the wall

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — a wall, a chimney, a vent, another roof plane, or the open edge at the eave. That is why the first useful question about any leak is not what the shingles look like, but what is nearby.

The work

Eleven towns, two river banks

Eleven towns across Greater Philadelphia — from eighteenth-century stone in Bucks County to interwar rows in Delaware County and the South Jersey suburbs across the river, all of them working through the oldest housing stock we cover.