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Roofing contractor in Levittown, PA
Six house models, 17,311 houses in six years, and seventy years of owners adding dormers and second floors. Every roof here started out identical, and almost none of them still are.
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Roofing in Levittown
Levittown’s houses and their roofs.
Levitt & Sons broke ground in February 1952 and by 1958 had built 17,311 houses with a 26-step assembly line, at peak finishing one every sixteen minutes. Buyers chose from six models: the Levittowner, Rancher, Jubilee, Pennsylvanian, Colonial and Country Clubber. The census still dates 72 percent of the community's 18,560 homes to the 1950s.
The sections spread across Bristol Township, Falls Township, Middletown Township and Tullytown, and each got only one model or a few. Cobalt Ridge was all Jubilees. Forsythia Gate, Red Rose Gate and Snowball Gate were Country Clubbers, and Appletree Hill, Holly Hill and Whitewood were Ranchers.
Seventy years on, few houses still look like the brochure. Owners have raised dormers, added second floors and built out the back, and each addition put a new joint in the roof. We come down from Newtown to inspect and replace them.
Know the house
Roofs you’ll find around Levittown.
Levittowners
The workhorse model, a one-story ranch that later owners often enlarged. Where an addition meets the original roof there is usually a valley or a change in slope, and that seam is the usual leak point.
Ranchers
Despite the name, a story-and-a-half house closer to a Cape Cod, the early version with a low front dormer. Dormer cheeks and the step flashing against them deserve a close look on every re-roof.
Jubilees
Built in 21 sections, including every one of the 956 houses in Cobalt Ridge. Most have been re-roofed several times, so we count the layers before quoting and never lay new shingles over old ones.
Country Clubbers
The largest model, a Levittowner enlarged with a finished attic and second floor, built in the three Middletown 'Gate' sections. A finished attic makes ventilation tricky, and we check intake and exhaust before the new shingles go on.
Seventy-year-old streets, a busier tornado decade
Tornadoes are rare here but not unheard of. Touchdowns were recorded around Levittown in 1975, 1982 and 1992, and the 2020s are already the county's most active tornado decade on record, including an EF1 that crossed into Bristol Township on September 1, 2021.
Day to day, the wear is ordinary: summer thunderstorms that lift shingle tabs, nor'easter wind on exposed corner lots, and seven decades of street trees dropping leaves into gutters and limbs onto roofs.
Services in Levittown
What we do for Levittown homes.
Roof Replacement in Levittown
Tear-off to bare deck, new drip edge, ice and water shield at every valley where an addition meets the original house, and a typical home here roofed in one day.
Roof Repair in Levittown
Leaks at addition seams, dormer walls and chimney bases, diagnosed and repaired with before-and-after photos and a written workmanship warranty on the repaired area.
Siding in Levittown
Plenty of these houses have been re-sided at least once. We install vinyl over housewrap, flash every window and door, and put the trim colors in writing.
Free Roof Inspection in Levittown
Free and about an hour: attic first, then the roof, with every addition joint, vent and pipe photographed for your report.
Also available in Levittown: Storm Damage & Insurance Claims · Commercial Roofing
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Levittown questions
Roofing in Levittown, answered.
Something else? Call or text (484) 647-7466, or read the full questions & answers.
How do I know which Levitt model my house started as?
Start with your section. Several were built with a single model, so the name often answers it: Cobalt Ridge is all Jubilees, and the three Middletown 'Gate' sections are Country Clubbers. In mixed sections, the original footprint and roofline usually give it away, even under later additions.
My Rancher had a second floor added across the front. Does that change the roof job?
Yes. A full front addition turns one simple roof into several planes meeting at different heights. Those junctions need step flashing and ice and water shield done right, and they're where we spend the most time on a re-roof.
Can you put the new shingles over the old ones to save money?
No. Every replacement we do is a full tear-off. On a house this old, the boards underneath have carried several roofs, and the only way to find soft spots is to look at bare deck. Each sheet we replace is photographed and billed at the per-sheet rate written into your contract.
Which township issues the permit for my Levittown house?
Whichever one the house sits in. Levittown spans three townships and a borough, so two houses a block apart can answer to different offices. We confirm it from your tax bill and pull the permits that municipality requires.
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(484) 647-7466That’s (484) MISSION · team@mission-roof.org
- Hours
- Mon–Sat 8 am – 4 pm
- Office
- 41 University Dr, Suite 400
Newtown, PA 18940