Leaks, storm openings, and ice dams in the North Hills and nearby Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
The North Hills cover Ross, McCandless, Shaler, Hampton, Franklin Park, Pine, and the older river boroughs like Bellevue, Avalon, and West View. The roofs split cleanly into two groups, and they fail in different ways.
The newer developments north of the Wexford line carry ten-to-twenty-year-old architectural shingle roofs on wide, exposed lots. What goes wrong there is wind — tabs lifted along ridges and rakes after a storm line moves through — plus the pipe boots and skylight curbs that reach the end of their service life long before the shingles do.
The older stock closer to the city sits under heavy tree cover on wooded lots, which means limb strikes, debris-packed valleys, and gutters that overflow back under the drip edge. Both groups get the same winter problem at the eaves, just less severely than the South Hills.
North Hills municipalities each run their own permitting for replacement work. Emergency leak stops are not held up by it.
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 the North Hills and the surrounding communities. If your street is not named here, call anyway — the list is where we run most often, not a boundary.
Nearby: Ross Township · Pittsburgh · Monroeville · South Hills · all service areas
Wind-lifted shingles on newer developments and tree strikes on the older wooded lots. Both show up heavily after summer storm lines move through.
Yes. Those are regular dispatch areas along with Hampton, Franklin Park, and the nearby North Allegheny communities.
More often than people expect. A ten-year-old roof with a split pipe boot or a poorly flashed skylight leaks exactly like a forty-year-old one.
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