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Bexley homes, from the roof down
Bexley is its own city, wrapped on every side by Columbus, and it has stayed close to what it was in the 1920s. The blocks between Broad Street and Main Street are brick and stone: Tudor revivals, colonials and the big houses along the older avenues, with a scatter of 1950s ranches at the edges. Capital University sits in the middle of it. The street trees are as old as the houses and in many places older, so the whole city sits under a canopy that closes over the road in summer.
That canopy is the story for gutters here. Bexley roofs collect maple seed and leaf litter all season, and many of the larger houses still run built-in box gutters behind the cornice, which fail quietly and rot the fascia before anyone sees water. The roofs themselves are often slate or clay tile on pitches steep enough that a shingle swap is not a straight trade. Where slate has already been replaced with asphalt, the flashing at the chimneys is usually the weak point, because it was cut for the original roof and never redone.
Bexley issues its own permits, and exterior work on a fair number of streets goes past an architectural review before it starts. We handle both, and the written quote after the inspection spells out what has to go back on and what the board will want to see. It is the review calendar, not the drive, that sets the timeline.