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Donofrio Mike Roofing & Siding

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With a team of versatile restoration carpenters and finish craftsmen, we can conserve, repair, replicate, or replace most types of historic woodwork – soffits, fascia, molding, windows or window framing, doors, rafters, ridge beams, joinery, columns, tongue-and-groove flooring, furniture, porches, etc. – as well as conserve, replicate, apply, or remove any kind of interior or exterior wood surface coating, paint, or stain. The full list of our capabilities is too much to mention here given the diverse and venerable tradition of woodworking in Pennsylvania, which ranges from the vernacular to the more modern, but as a sample of our carpentry projects, we have recently done the following...

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Categories: Siding Contractors, Altering & Remodeling Contractors, Fence-Sales, Service & Contractors, Flooring Contractors, General Contractors, Gutters & Downspouts, Home Builders, Insulation Contractors, Masonry Contractors-Commercial & Industrial, Patio Builders, Patio Covers & Enclosures, Roofing Contractors, Windows-Repair, Replacement & Installation

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Donofrio Mike Roofing & Siding

Flooring
With a team of versatile restoration carpenters and finish craftsmen, we can conserve, repair, replicate, or replace most types of historic woodwork – soffits, fascia, molding, windows or window framing, doors, rafters, ridge beams, joinery, columns, tongue-and-groove flooring, furniture, porches, etc. – as well as conserve, replicate, apply, or remove any kind of interior or exterior wood surface coating, paint, or stain. The full list of our capabilities is too much to mention here given the diverse and venerable tradition of woodworking in Pennsylvania, which ranges from the vernacular to the more modern, but as a sample of our carpentry projects, we have recently done the following...
Door Installation/Replacement
Framing
Tile Installation
Skylight Repair/Replacement
On the garden side of this colonial Mill Creek property, which fell under the purview of the Lower Merion Historical Commission, we installed the TPO flat roof membrane, slate, copper flashing / ridge, as well as these gorgeous copper-clad VELUX skylights – a custom design that we had to import from Denmark.

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Landscaping and Fencing

Fencing
Four-rail split-rail fences, although uncommon in the suburbs, were once deployed in the Philadelphia Main Line, as evidenced by historical photos taken around the nearby Rosemont Station, when this area was mostly grazing meadows and farmland. We based our designs on the ones still standing in Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia.
Driveways
Project site photo of stacked flagstone replacements – otherwise known as Pennsylvania Bluestone – needed for the partial restoration of a historic driveway that had been severely damaged by constant vehicle traffic, incompatible cement repairs, salt crystallization, and years of freeze-thaw erosion. Note: given that 6" or thicker slabs of flagstone were not commercially available at local quarries, we had to visit and then commission a regional quarry operator, in upstate Pennsylvania, to procure suitable replacements – which we later cut to dimension, on-site.
Snow Removal
Emergency snow removal service for a customer affected by the historic blizzard of 2010. If snow guards had been installed along the starter courses, such drifts of heavy, wet snow probably would not have amassed, melted, and later refrozen over the once noble and now malformed gutters / fascia – especially on the upper roof, to the left.
Retaining Walls
Regarding fabrication, we favor complex projects that involve overlapping specialties in masonry and roofing, such as when we had recently designed and installed a cairn-like gabion retaining wall, in heavy-gauge weathering steel and freestanding river stone, around a sloped concrete patio, internal drainage system, and hand-soldered copper downspouts. Built in front of an eclectic Interwar-period catalog home, this modular gabion was a visual nod to the utilitarian park rustic aesthetic developed by the National Park Service Landscape Division in the 1920s and later adopted locally by the WPA in the construction of the nearby Wissahickon Valley Park outbuildings. Both the John Muir Hut by Henry Gutterson and the unrelated Camp Muir Shelter on Mount Rainier by Daniel Ray Hull also served as our points of reference. Please refer to our project photos for more information.
Walkways

Window Installation/Replacement
Patios
Chimney repointing and crown repair (our specialty – especially since we are equally skilled at traditional roofing), mortar matching (including the color and texture), hardscape restoration (e.g., patios, flagstone walkways, and gravel driveways), sculpture / ornamental stone / cemetery conservation (including mechanical pinning, composite / fill repairs, and the like), stucco repair (including traditional lime coating / patterning for colonial architecture, as well as more contemporary methods such as shotcrete or gunite for modern buildings), basement waterproofing and foundation restoration, interior plaster repair, masonry cleaning and repair (including the removal of surface soiling, as well as the restoration of lost or irrevocably damaged stone or brick), lintel or arch reconstruction, stone carving, and anything else that involves setting cement, ceramics, or materials quarried from the earth.
Gutters
We are master roofers / fabricators who repair (our specialty), restore, or rebuild the following types of roofs: slate, cedar, copper, standing seam, corrugated, tin, flat (EPDM + TPO + modified), tile, asbestos, mid-century hurricane shingles, architectural shingles, solar shingles, synthetic slate (aka – fake slate or plastic slate), concrete, ceramic (Ludowici), green / vegetated, thatch, anything else that has been or can be built, and any building system or component that interfaces with a roof (fascia / soffits / gutters / pole gutters / crickets / valleys / ridges / gussets / ornamental woodwork / chimney flashing / etc.).
Garage Door Repair/Replacement
The owners of this vintage Craftsman-style residence, in Bala Cynwyd, asked us to replace their visible first-floor roofs and corresponding drainage systems with cedar and copper, repoint the porch foundation, install a shingle roof on the detached rear garage, remove a submerged oil tank, install a Buderus heating system, conserve and insulate over twenty historic windows, replicate a garage door that had completely rotted out, repair or recoat damaged sections of stucco, and, whew, the list goes on. The property looks amazing now – such well-made buildings have good bones and are very amenable to restoration.
Siding
Although such rustic cedar roofs were synonymous with early Philadelphia Main Line Colonial Revival architecture, most have unfortunately been replaced with mass-produced "architectural shingles" — i.e, cheap asphalt or fiberglass equivalents, many with ironic Arthurian-branded names to suggest durability. This project here, a few blocks from the Merion Cricket Club, is an example of a Durham home that we transformed by merely restoring the pictured roofs and siding back to their durable cedar origins.
Porches
Residential Roof Repair
A favorite property of ours: With stucco turrets, Spanish tile roofs, and expansive single-story rooms, this palatial pastiche of a modern Hollywood residence, which had been imported from Spain in the ‘80s by the former president of the Franklin Mint, could easily be the setting of a Coen Brothers or Michael Mann film. We provide periodic concierge renovation services that cover the gamut of what’s possible to restore, from stucco rehabilitation to tile and flat roof repair to gutter maintenance – this large and eclectic abode needs it all.
Residential Roof Replacement/Installation
Architecture without Architects; a member of several preservation organizations, including ICOMOS, Docomomo, the Association for Preservation Technology (APT), the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), the Society for Industrial Archaeology (SIA), and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH); a tinkerer of aerial drone technology for remote building diagnostics and site surveys; and, as a third-generation Philadelphia Main Line roofing contractor and long-time member of the National Slate Association, a traditional roofing expert.
Residential Roof Inspection

Carpentry
We’ve provided concierge renovation services, ranging from slate replacement and custom carpentry to the installation of a computerized sump pump, for two different owners of this historic Bryn Mawr estate. We’ve even designed and installed a custom weathervane, after the original one had been stolen around the crash of 2008.
Insulation
Clients often hire us to take over jobs that simply overwhelm other tradesmen. In this case, the previous contractor, who had covered up all the rotted wood with insulation board (!), didn’t know how to install pole gutters when the time came. Consequently, we took over the project midway and did the following: restored the leaking mansard roof with affordable shingles that resemble slate, rebuilt the pole gutters in copper, installed copper drip edges, and repaired any rotted woodwork (as well as undid the previous contractor’s shoddy work). This was one of our best projects on a budget, without making any sacrifices on durability.
Masonry
Our approach to masonry conservation is from the perspective of building / objects conservation (otherwise known in stuffy academic circles as "architectural conservation") in which specialized artisans and mechanics combine the principles of both contemporary materials science and traditional pre-1950s trades to either conserve or restore historic buildings / sculptures / sites, often with the very techniques and materials that went into their original construction and which have been subsequently forgotten, ignored, or "improved upon" by the contemporary home renovation industry. This means that we typically use only the most compatible, breathable, and time-tested lime or silicate-based mineral cements or stains, in many cases imported or originally derived from France, the Netherlands, Canada, and other heritage-rich countries that prioritize the preservation of historic fabric; along with locally sourced replacement stone / brick, to affordably do the following...
Caulking
We follow traditional standards. In particular, we’re probably the only boutique-contracting firm in the Philadelphia Main Line that actually reglet cuts copper or zinc-copper flashing into all of our chimneys. What is a reglet cut? A simple example will suffice: if you see an older chimney with green or black flashing that looks stepped like the section of a staircase, then it was probably reglet cut. The theory is that if the flashing were ever compromised, then the water could penetrate only one “step” of the flashing. So, any damage would be compartmentalized. Of course, this means that the stepped flashing would have to be properly cut into the masonry and then bent into a proper reglet cut via step and counter flashing. This is a time-consuming process that doubles the cost of a project. Unfortunately, most roofers underbid projects by wrapping diagonal bands of flashing, often cheap aluminum, around chimneys and then caulking (or even mucking) in the seams between the flashing and the masonry. This does nothing; in fact, any moisture that gets through will leak on a diagonal. The trade jargon (probably unfair because tradesmen working outside of Philadelphia do it just as much) for such a practice is known as “Philly flashing.”
Handyman Services
Take a good look. It’s pretty difficult to spot our tile repairs as we get our replacements from architectural salvage yards. Ludowici tile will last forever if they are properly installed and maintained. So, why did this roof previously fail? The answer is that someone, likely a “handyman,” walked all over the roof when some of the tiles slipped (which also shouldn’t have happened). We avoid this problem by working off a scaffold for the lowest course, a portion of which we remove down to the deck, and then, we gradually work our way up the roof via a pick, with the weight always supported by the deck.

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