Glenshaw Siding, Windows & Exterior Services

Home base on William Flinn Highway

Our office sits at 1310 William Flinn Highway in Glenshaw, and that is not a mailing address we picked for a service-area page. Crews stage here, materials come off this yard, and a Glenshaw job is a short drive rather than a dispatch across the county. When weather moves through, the homes closest to us are the ones we can get to soonest during business hours.

Glenshaw itself is worth understanding as a place. It is not a borough, it is a community that spreads across parts of Shaler, Hampton, Indiana, O'Hara, and Ross townships under the 15116 ZIP code, which is why two neighbors on the same road can answer to different municipalities.

Postwar houses in three stream valleys

The median Glenshaw home was built in 1958, and more than half the housing here went up in the 1950s and 1960s. That is a landscape of brick and frame Cape Cods, ranches, and split-levels, plus older two-story frame houses down along the older valley corridors. It also means a great deal of 1960s and 70s aluminum siding that has now reached the end of its life, which is a large share of the re-siding work we do close to home.

Three stream valleys, Pine Creek, Little Pine Creek, and Girtys Run, cut through the area on their way to the Allegheny River, and they shape the work more than most homeowners expect. Girtys Run is a documented flash-flood watershed that drains 13 square miles of developed ground through Shaler and Millvale, and it flooded twice in a single week in August 2007. Roof drainage, gutter sizing, and where downspouts actually discharge are not cosmetic questions on these lots.

The valleys also bring mature hardwood canopy directly over roofs and steep hillside back yards and driveways. Both make gutter service and ladder access genuinely harder here than on a flat suburban lot.