Roofing Contractor in Uptown Harrisburg, PA

Rowhomes, corner stores and warehouse roofs

Uptown is a genuine mix. The residential streets hold late-1800s and early-1900s rowhomes with the standard Harrisburg configuration — sloped front, flat rear — plus a share of detached and semi-detached homes as you move north toward Maclay and Division.

The Cameron Street corridor itself is industrial and commercial: warehouses, service buildings, contractor yards and small manufacturing, nearly all with large low-slope roofs of varying age and condition. Several are still wearing built-up asphalt roofs that were installed decades ago and have been coated repeatedly since.

Corner commercial buildings scattered through the residential blocks are the third type, and they are frequently the most neglected roofs in the neighborhood — small low-slope decks over an occupied first floor with an apartment above.

• Rowhomes with steep fronts and low-slope rear sections
• Cameron Street warehouse and light industrial low-slope roofs
• Corner mixed-use buildings with flats over storefronts
• Older detached housing toward Division Street and Italian Lake

Being the roofer down the street

There is a real advantage to hiring a contractor whose address you can drive past. If something needs a second look two winters after we install it, we are eight blocks away — not out of business, not in another state, not a phone number that goes to voicemail.

It also means our response time in Uptown is genuinely fast. Emergency calls from 17103 addresses typically get a truck moving within the hour during business hours, and overnight calls from the immediate neighborhood are the ones we get to first.

The Cameron Street corridor work has taught us a lot about low-slope roofs that has fed back into how we do residential flat sections: proper drainage design, mechanical termination rather than adhesive alone, and walkway pads wherever anyone services rooftop equipment.