Yardley Borough · Lower Makefield
Roofing contractor in Yardley, PA
A canal-side borough of buildings from about 1728 to 1930, where any roof visible from the street goes to HARB, ringed by Lower Makefield's 1980s and 1990s subdivisions.
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Roofing in Yardley
Yardley’s houses and their roofs.
William Yardley's nephew started a ferry here in 1710, the village took shape after about 1807, and the borough incorporated in 1895. Its National Register district holds 200 contributing buildings dating from about 1728 to 1930, with the Delaware Canal and towpath cutting straight through and Lake Afton on North Main Street.
Most people with a Yardley address don't live in the borough at all. The post office assigns it across much of Lower Makefield Township, where half of the 12,846 homes were built in the 1980s and 1990s and roughly 18 percent are attached townhouses.
We drive down from Newtown to both. The borough calls for careful flashing work and HARB paperwork. The township mostly calls for a sound second roof on a house that has outlived its first.
Know the house
Roofs you’ll find around Yardley.
Historic district houses
Federal and Gothic Revival houses, some older than the canal itself. Steep gables, dormers and old chimneys put most of the risk in the flashing, and any change to a roof that can be seen from the street goes through the borough's review board.
Postwar borough blocks
About four in ten borough homes went up between 1950 and 1979, outside the oldest streets. Simple gable and hip roofs, usually re-roofed more than once, where the plywood at the eaves is the first thing we check.
Lower Makefield colonials
Two-story houses from the 1980s and 1990s boom. A house built in 1992 is now past thirty, so whatever roof it carries, original or first replacement, is often the one starting to fail at the valleys and around the chimney.
Townhouse communities
Close to one Lower Makefield home in five is attached. Replacement there usually runs through the association, which may set the shingle line and color for every building on the street.
A river town: floods below, freeze-thaw above
The Delaware has flooded Yardley within living memory: in 1955, then in September 2004, April 2005 and June 2006, three floods in under two years. The damage was serious enough that a congressional committee held a field hearing here in August 2006. Floods ruin basements rather than roofs, but they are why so many owners keep what matters in the attic, where a slow roof leak hurts most.
Up top, winter does the damage. Freeze-thaw cycles open old chimney flashing, and leaves left in the gutters keep snowmelt from draining off the eaves.
Services in Yardley
What we do for Yardley homes.
Roof Repair in Yardley
Leaks at chimney and dormer flashing on older borough houses, fixed with matching material where we can find it, photographed before and after, with a written warranty on the area.
Roof Replacement in Yardley
For Lower Makefield colonials: full tear-off, ice and water shield in the valleys and along the eaves, synthetic underlayment, new drip edge, and most houses finished the same day.
Free Roof Inspection in Yardley
Free. On a district house the photo report doubles as the documentation the borough asks for when you claim work is ordinary in-kind repair.
Siding in Yardley
Vinyl siding on township homes, installed over housewrap with flashing and undersill trim. Inside the borough's district, any visible wall change goes to HARB first, so we'll raise that before quoting.
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Yardley questions
Roofing in Yardley, answered.
Something else? Call or text (484) 647-7466, or read the full questions & answers.
Does a new roof in Yardley's historic district need HARB review?
If the roof can be seen from a public street, generally yes. The borough's ordinance sends exterior changes visible from the right of way, roofs included, to the HARB for a Certificate of Appropriateness and Borough Council approval. Work the Building Inspector and HARB agree is in-kind ordinary maintenance can skip the certificate, but you have to show it with photos and material details, which our inspection report supplies.
Where does Yardley's historic district begin and end?
Roughly from Lakeside on North Main Street south to Letchworth Avenue, plus Canal Street, South Canal Street and part of South Edgewater Avenue, and along Afton Avenue from St. Andrew's Episcopal Church to the Yardley Inn. The borough keeps the official boundary, so confirm with it before assuming your house is in or out.
My address says Yardley but I live in Lower Makefield. Who issues the permit?
The municipality you're actually in, which for most Yardley addresses is the township, not the borough. We confirm it from your tax bill and pull whatever permits that office requires before the crew arrives.
My 1990s colonial still has its original roof. Is it time?
Age alone doesn't decide it. We look at granule loss, curling or cracked shingles, the valleys, and the attic for stains or soft decking. If the roof has years left, the report says so, and a small repair may be all it needs.
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