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1000 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17103
Borough · Tier 2 service area
About fourteen minutes from our shop across the river.
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Camp Hill is one of the West Shore's most established boroughs — walkable, well kept, with a strong school district and housing that skews toward the middle of the twentieth century. The median home here dates to roughly the early 1950s, which is a useful fact for a roofer.
It means an entire borough of houses on their second or third roof, with the ventilation and detailing standards of a very different era underneath.
The characteristic Camp Hill house is a well-built postwar colonial, cape or ranch on a mature lot, with a moderate pitch, an attached or detached garage and original wood fascia and soffit.
Those original soffits are frequently the problem. Solid wood soffits with no vents, or aluminum panels installed over them without perforations, mean no intake air — and when a ridge vent was added during a 1990s re-roof, it had nothing to draw from. The result is an attic that runs hot in summer and damp in winter, and shingles that age from underneath.
Mature trees are the other constant. Camp Hill's canopy is one of its assets and it fills gutters, shades north slopes into algae growth and drops limbs in storms.
When we re-roof in Camp Hill, correcting intake ventilation is nearly always part of the scope. That means either replacing solid soffit panels with vented ones, or cutting in continuous intake and installing baffles so insulation cannot block it at the eave.
It is real carpentry, it is a visible line on the estimate, and it is the difference between a new roof reaching its rated life and repeating the last one's history. Skipping it also voids most shingle manufacturers' warranties, which homeowners are rarely told.
On the tree side, we specify algae-resistant shingles with copper granules for heavily shaded north slopes, and we size gutters for the actual roof area rather than defaulting to five-inch trough on a house that needs six.
Replacements with ventilation corrections, algae-resistant specification for shaded slopes, and gutter sizing.
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Learn moreWorking in Camp Hill
What we bring to this specific area — not a list of adjectives, but the things that actually change how the job goes here.
Camp Hill's median house dates to roughly the early 1950s, and the original solid wood soffits on that stock have no vents at all. Where a ridge vent was added in a later re-roof it has had nothing to draw from since. Cutting in intake is carpentry and it is in the scope.
The canopy here is one of the borough's assets and it keeps north slopes damp for days. Copper-granule shingles on those elevations stop the black streaking before it starts.
Heavy tree cover plus a steep plane means a 5-inch trough often cannot carry the peak flow. We measure the drainage area rather than replacing like for like.
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We dispatch from 1000 N Cameron Street in Harrisburg. About fourteen minutes from our shop across the river.
Capitol Roofers Harrisburg
1000 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17103
(855) 705-1940 · Open 24 hours — emergency roof crews on call
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FAQs
Local answers to the questions we get asked most on these streets.
Ventilation, almost every time. The 1950s stock here was built with solid wood soffits and no intake, and a ridge vent added during a later re-roof has nothing feeding it. The attic then runs hot in July and damp in January, and the shingles age from the underside where nobody is looking. It is also why so many houses here get ice dams.
Those are algae, and on a shaded north slope under mature canopy they are close to inevitable. They are mostly cosmetic but they hold moisture against the shingle. Do not pressure wash — that strips granules and drives water under the courses. The real fix comes at replacement: algae-resistant shingles with copper granules, plus trimming to get some light and airflow onto the slope.
Yes, all of it, about fourteen minutes from the shop across the river. The housing is consistent enough that we can usually tell you what we expect to find before getting on the ladder — which is the advantage of working a borough regularly rather than passing through it.
The borough runs its own permitting and a full replacement generally requires one. We file it and schedule the inspection as part of the job. Worth knowing: whoever pulls the permit is the party accountable for the work meeting code, so a contractor asking you to pull it is moving that onto you.
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