Flat and rowhouse roofs, one request line, one roofer

Flat and low-slope rowhouse roofs
Parapet, scupper and drain repairs
Twins, slate and storm-wind damage
Phones answered 24/7

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Our story

How Philadelphia Roofing works

Philadelphia is a river city of rowhouses, twins, stone houses and a few tall blocks, set between the Delaware and the Schuylkill. Its roofs are mostly flat rowhouse roofs with gentle falls to a drain, and the neighbourhoods across the Delaware and the Pennsylvania suburbs bring pitched roofs and slate into the mix.

Philadelphia Roofing takes the roof call and passes it to a local roofer. The roofer does the work and holds the credential the city, the state or New Jersey requires, and it confirms the price on site after it has been on the roof.

Service area: Philadelphia and 28 nearby neighbourhoods and towns within 25 km: Philadelphia, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, PA, and Camden County, NJ
Address: Philadelphia, PA 19103
Hours: Phones answered 24/7
The rowhouse roof: Looks flat but slopes to a drain at a minimum of 1/4 inch per foot (Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual); water leaves through an internal drain and a parapet scupper, or along a rear gutter
Where flat roofs fail: Generally at parapet and party-wall flashing, drain and scupper seams, and where water ponds; older roofs are often built-up, replacements are usually a single-ply or modified bitumen membrane
Credentials: Pennsylvania issues no roofing licence: residential roofers register as Home Improvement Contractors with the Attorney General (verify a number on 1-888-520-6680). In Philadelphia the roofer also holds a city Commercial Activity License. In Camden County, NJ, roofers register with the Division of Consumer Affairs instead
Permits: Most roof replacements in the city need a permit from Licenses and Inspections, filed by the roofer; EZ permits are mostly processed in 5 business days, and roofs visible from the street in a historic district may need Historical Commission review first. Suburban townships and New Jersey towns issue their own
Pricing: Set by the roofer and confirmed on site before work starts. What moves it: roof area, flat or pitched, parapet height and length, drains and scuppers, layers to remove, flashing, staging on a narrow street and the permit
What it covers: Flat and low-slope repair, replacement and coating, parapet and cornice flashing, drains and scuppers, leaks, emergency and storm repair, shingle and slate roofs, chimney flashing, gutters, skylights, ventilation, inspections

Who is on the ladder

Two credentials, both the roofer's to hold

Your enquiry reaches one independent roofing partner working the rowhouses and twins near you in Philadelphia or Philadelphia County. It surveys the roof, quotes it, pulls the permit and does the work under its own name, so the compliance travels with it: the registration and city licence the job requires, its liability cover and insurance on file where the city asks for it, current city taxes, and accountability to the offices that issue each. Philadelphia Roofing is a request line and is not a roofing contractor.

Pennsylvania has no state roofing licence. What it has is the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act, under which a contractor performing home improvement work above the statutory annual threshold registers with the Attorney General and carries a HIC number. Philadelphia then adds its own layer: for an existing one- or two-family home, permitted work may be done by a resident owner or by a registered Pennsylvania home improvement contractor who also holds a Philadelphia Commercial Activity License. Larger and commercial buildings can fall under different city rules, and Licenses and Inspections answers for a specific address. New Jersey, where some callers are, registers roofers as home improvement contractors with its Division of Consumer Affairs, with a move to licensing under way.

Ask for both numbers before you sign: the HIC registration and the city licence. Ask on the phone, or when the roofer calls to arrange the survey, and ask for the certificate of insurance while you are at it. We do not list them here, because they identify a private firm and are its to give out. The Attorney General's home improvement registration line will confirm a HIC number for you, and the state insurance department's own advice is worth following: never pay in full or sign a completion certificate before the work is actually finished.

Ask for the HIC and city licence numbers (833) 751-2102

Values

What we hold ourselves to

Answer the call

The line is answered at (833) 751-2102, including the night after a storm when the first ceiling stain shows.

Walk the roof

The roofer checks the parapet, drains and scuppers before it gives a figure.

Name the permit

Whether L&I, the Historical Commission or a New Jersey municipality is involved is set out before the job is booked.

Check the registration

You can ask for the roofer's Attorney General or Division of Consumer Affairs number and check it yourself.

Service standards

Our promises on every visit

Phone answered 24/7
Roof walked before the price
Registration number on request

Skip the guesswork. Call for a straight answer.

Tell us what's happening and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a quick fix, and what help should cost.

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