Home Remodeling in Broomall, PA
Remodeling for the split-levels, ranches and flattops of Broomall and the rest of Marple Township.
Broomall is not a municipality. It is a post office, opened on January 28, 1870 and named for Congressman John M. Broomall, and since the Marple post office closed in 1903 most of Marple Township has had a Broomall address. Marple was Quaker farmland from 1684, and the Thomas Massey House from that first generation is on the National Register. Suburbia started small with Broomall Park, a 20-acre subdivision of 178 lots on the north side of West Chester Pike platted in 1905 and 1906, which had only 38 houses by 1929. The real change came after the war: Marple had 4,779 people in 1950 and 19,722 in 1960. That decade produced the developments people still name, the 1950s split-levels of Lawrence Park on the township's eastern edge, detached singles on about a fifth of an acre, and the flat-roofed modern houses known locally as the flattops of Rose Tree Woods, southwest of Sproul Road.
Most Broomall houses therefore date from the 1950s and 1960s: split-levels, ranches and Cape Cods on modest lots, with compact kitchens and one or two baths. Dawson's serves Broomall and the rest of Marple, about an hour from Middletown.
Marple Township's Code Enforcement office
Every permit for a Broomall house comes from Marple Township's Code Enforcement department on South Sproul Road, covering building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, fire and grading work. The same department inspects houses at resale, looking at sidewalks, driveways and curbs, so a buyer planning a remodel may already have a short township list to add to the scope.
Split-levels and flattops
A split-level puts the kitchen, living and dining rooms on the middle floor, bedrooms half a flight up and a family room half a flight down beside the garage. The kitchen is the usual starting point, since taking out the wall to the dining room gives the house the open plan it was close to having. The lower level is where the space hides, and finishing it properly means insulating the walls against the grade and laying a floor that tolerates a slab. Upstairs, the one hall bath gets rebuilt, often with a second bath carved from a closet.
The Rose Tree Woods flattops are a different job. Their low flat roofs and long horizontal lines are the whole idea of the house, so replacement windows keep the original proportions, siding stays in the spirit of the design, and any addition or deck is drawn to extend those lines rather than fight them. A low, wide deck off the back suits these houses far better than a tall one on posts.
Dawson's serves Broomall for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Newtown Square, Media, Swarthmore and Wallingford.
Broomall is part of the Delaware County, PA service area.
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