Leaks, storm openings, and ice dams in Ross Township and nearby Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
Ross Township runs along the McKnight Road corridor north of the city, mixing dense post-war residential streets with the retail strip that defines the area. The housing is mostly ranches, split-levels, and modest two-stories built in the forties through the sixties, plus the older borough-style stock toward West View and Perrysville.
These are exactly the roofs that produce winter eave leaks. Shallow pitches, long unbroken eave runs, and attics with blocked soffit venting under a ridge vent that cannot breathe — heat builds up, snow melts, and the water refreezes at the edge. Gutters packed from the surrounding tree cover make it worse by holding the ice in place.
The rest of the year it is wind-lifted shingles on aging roofs, brittle pipe boots, and low-slope carport and addition sections that were tacked on later and flashed badly at the wall.
Ross Township permits replacement work through the municipality. Emergency containment does not wait for 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 Ross Township 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: North Hills · Pittsburgh · Monroeville · South Hills · all service areas
Wind-lifted shingles, aging pipe boots, and ice at the eaves on the older ranch and split-level stock.
Yes, residential and small commercial, along with West View, Ross, and the nearby North Hills communities.
Emergency containment yes, roof work depends on conditions. Nobody should be walking an iced roof, so the sequence is stop water inside, then work the roof when it is safe.
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