Leaks, storm openings, and ice dams in Mt. Lebanon and nearby Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
Mt. Lebanon has the most complicated residential roofs in the South Hills. The neighborhoods off Washington Road and Beverly Road are full of large 1920s and 1930s colonials, Tudors, and center-hall homes with multiple gables, dormers, deep valleys, and brick or stone chimneys — sometimes two or three on the same house.
A real share of these roofs are slate or tile, or were slate before somebody covered them. Slate does not fail the way asphalt does. The tiles themselves often outlast the nails and the flashings holding them, so a roof full of sound slate can start leaking in several places at once because the fasteners have rusted through and the valley and chimney metal is done. Individual slates can be replaced and hung properly; tearing off a sound slate roof because a few pieces slipped is an expensive mistake.
Add mature street trees over most of the municipality and you get the other Mt. Lebanon call: limb strikes and packed valleys, on roofs steep enough that nobody should be up there without proper staging.
Mt. Lebanon permits roof replacement through the municipality, and historic-district detail can matter on some streets. Emergency work to stop water is separate from that process.
Do not go up on the roof. Get buckets under the drips, move what you can, photograph the ceiling and the outside from the ground, then call.
Dispatch runs across Mt. Lebanon and the surrounding communities. If your street is not named here, call anyway — the list is where we run most often, not a boundary.
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Larger older colonials, real slate on some streets, mature trees over the roof line, and more complex valleys and dormers than a typical suburban roof.
Yes — individual slate replacement and flashing work rather than tearing off a sound slate roof.
The municipality permits roof replacement work. Emergency stabilization to stop water happens first; the permanent repair follows the municipal process.
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