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1000 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17103
Township · Tier 1 service area
Ten to fifteen minutes from our Harrisburg shop depending on which end of the township — Lawnton is closest, Oberlin and Bressler a few minutes further.
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Based on N Cameron St
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Swatara Township covers a lot of ground southeast of Harrisburg and contains several distinct communities: Lawnton along the old highway, Rutherford near the interchange, and the river villages of Bressler, Enhaut and Oberlin down toward Steelton.
It is a working township — modest housing, a lot of it built for people who worked the rail yards and the steel mill, plus newer development along the PA-283 and Eisenhower Boulevard corridors.
The older river communities — Bressler, Enhaut and Oberlin — hold compact worker housing from the steel era: twins, small singles and rowhomes on narrow lots, many with low-slope rear sections and porch roofs.
North and east, Lawnton and Rutherford are a mix of pre-war and postwar homes with the usual mid-century ranch and cape stock, while the corridors along Eisenhower Boulevard and PA-283 carry commercial and light industrial buildings with large low-slope roofs.
The common thread is age. A great deal of Swatara's residential roofing is at or past the end of a second life cycle, and the low-slope sections are frequently the oldest, most-patched part of the house.
The Lawnton and Rutherford corridor has taken hail in recent seasons, and it is an area where we do a lot of free post-storm inspections. Hail is intensely localized — one street gets hit while the next is untouched — so we start every inspection with the soft metals, because gutters, downspouts and vent caps record exactly what fell on your property.
Down toward the river villages, Swatara Creek and the Susquehanna both matter. Properties in the lower parts of Bressler, Enhaut and Oberlin sit in an area with real flood history, which affects everything from how additions were built to how the drainage around a house has been modified over the years.
We factor that in on estimates. A downspout discharging toward a house that already sits low is a problem worth solving while the roof crew is there anyway.
Hail inspections along the PA-283 corridor, low-slope work in the river villages, and full replacements across the postwar stock.
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Learn moreWorking in Swatara Township
What we bring to this specific area — not a list of adjectives, but the things that actually change how the job goes here.
Bressler, Enhaut and Oberlin hold compact steel-era worker housing with low-slope rear sections that a lot of companies would rather not quote. That is normal work for us.
The Lawnton and Rutherford corridor has taken hail in recent seasons and it is street-by-street. Gutters, downspouts and vent caps record what actually fell at your address, so that is where we look before anyone gets on the roof.
Properties toward Swatara Creek and the river sit on ground that already contends with water. Getting roof discharge clear of the foundation is often the most valuable thing we do on a job here.
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We dispatch from 1000 N Cameron Street in Harrisburg. Ten to fifteen minutes from our Harrisburg shop depending on which end of the township — Lawnton is closest, Oberlin and Bressler a few minutes further.
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.
Possibly, and you may not be able to tell from the ground. Hail bruises the shingle mat without breaking the surface. Our hail damage inspection is free and produces a written report either way.
Yes, all three. The older housing down there frequently has low-slope rear sections that need a membrane rather than shingles — that is standard work for us.
Yes. Low-slope TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen work is a core part of what we do — see commercial roofing.
Typically ten to fifteen minutes from our Cameron Street shop, depending on which community and time of day. Active interior leaks get moved to the front of the queue.
Yes, all three, along with Lawnton, Rutherford and the rest of Swatara Township. The older housing down in the river villages frequently has low-slope rear sections carrying shingles they were never rated for, and correcting that to a proper membrane is routine work for us.
Possibly, and you probably cannot tell from the ground — hail bruises the shingle mat without breaking the surface. The inspection is free and produces a written report either way. If your gutters, downspouts and vent caps are clean, the roof usually is too, and we will tell you that rather than manufacturing a claim.
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