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1000 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17103
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About twelve minutes out Jonestown Road or Union Deposit Road from our Cameron Street shop.
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Colonial Park is the older suburban core of Lower Paxton Township, built out largely in the 1950s and 60s around what is now the Colonial Commons shopping area on Jonestown Road. It is dense, walkable by suburban standards, and full of the ranches, capes and split-levels that defined postwar Central Pennsylvania building.
We work here constantly. Colonial Park homes are on their second or third roof now, and the houses are consistent enough that we can usually tell a homeowner what we expect to find before we get on the ladder.
The typical Colonial Park roof is a straightforward gable or hip at a moderate pitch, between fifteen and thirty squares, with a shallow overhang and an attached garage. That simplicity is good news — it is the least expensive roof in America to replace properly.
The recurring problems are equally consistent. Shallow eave overhangs mean wind-driven rain gets at the fascia and the first course of sheathing. Original aluminum soffit panels are often unperforated, so there is no intake. And a great many of these houses have had a second layer of shingles added at some point in the 1980s, which means the next replacement is a two-layer tear-off with double the disposal weight.
Colonial Park sits along a busy commercial spine, and that shapes the work in two ways. First, the retail and office buildings along Jonestown Road and Union Deposit Road are almost all low-slope, so we run commercial and residential crews in the same area on the same days.
Second, hail. The corridor between Colonial Park and Lawnton has seen damaging hail in recent seasons, and this is one of the areas where we do the most free post-storm inspections. We check the gutter faces, the downspouts, the furnace vent caps and the air conditioner fins before we ever get on the roof — soft metals are the honest record of what actually fell on a given property.
Because so many Colonial Park houses are similar vintage and similar construction, a hail event tends to produce a cluster of claims on the same streets. When that happens we work the block methodically rather than cherry-picking, and we tell homeowners with no claimable damage that they have no claimable damage.
Two-layer tear-offs with ventilation corrections, plus a steady volume of hail inspection and claim work.
Full tear-off and re-roof for Harrisburg homes, with line-item quotes that show you exactly what you are paying for.
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Learn moreWorking in Colonial Park
What we bring to this specific area — not a list of adjectives, but the things that actually change how the job goes here.
1950s and 60s ranches, capes and splits here are consistent enough that we can usually tell you what to expect — shallow overhangs, unperforated aluminium soffit and a good chance of a second shingle layer added in the 1980s.
A hidden second layer roughly doubles disposal tonnage and labour hours. We check the rake edge at the estimate so the number you get is the number you pay, rather than a change order on tear-off morning.
When hail comes through this corridor it tends to produce a cluster of claims on the same streets. We work the block methodically and tell homeowners with no claimable damage that they have none.
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We dispatch from 1000 N Cameron Street in Harrisburg. About twelve minutes out Jonestown Road or Union Deposit Road from our Cameron Street shop.
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.
Look at the rake edge from the ground — a double layer is visibly thicker where it laps over the edge. We confirm it during the free inspection, and it matters because it roughly doubles tear-off and disposal cost.
Yes, if it has no perforations. A solid soffit panel means no intake air, which means your ridge vent cannot function. We add vented panels or cut in intake as part of the replacement scope.
Yes. Hail is street-by-street and the damage is invisible from the ground. Our free hail inspection takes under an hour and you get a written report whether or not there is damage.
Look at the rake edge from the ground — a double layer is visibly thicker where it laps over the edge. We confirm it during the free inspection because it materially changes the quote: two layers roughly doubles both the tear-off labour and the landfill tonnage, and a bid that assumed one layer will not hold.
Possibly — hail in this corridor is street-by-street. Start with your soft metals: dimples in the gutter face, the downspouts, the furnace vent cap and the fins on the outdoor AC unit. If those are marked, the roof took the same hits and the bruising will be invisible from the ground. The inspection is free and takes under an hour.
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