Sheet roofs, and the units they sit on.
Workshops, farm buildings, small industrial units and the odd village hall. Profiled sheeting, single ply, valley gutters and cut-edge corrosion — the work that keeps a working building working.
No call-out charge, and the phone is answered 24 hours.
Written prices
the quote is the price, agreed before we start
Free quotes
no call-out charge, and a written price before anyone starts
24 hours
someone answers the phone, storm or shine
Fully insured
every job covered, from a single slate to a full re-roof
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Commercial and industrial roofing.
A commercial roof fails differently from a house roof. It rarely lets go all at once. What happens instead is that the cut edges of the sheets rust back from the laps, the fixing washers perish and start to weep, the GRP rooflight sheets go brittle and yellow, and the valley gutter silts up and overflows inside the building rather than outside it. All slow, all cheap to catch early, all expensive once the purlins are going.
Most of what we do on units this size is therefore repair and refurbishment rather than replacement: cut-edge treatment, fixings and washers renewed, rooflight sheets swapped, valley gutters cleared and lined with a proper system rather than a bucket of bitumen. A lined gutter costs a fraction of a new roof and buys twenty years.
Where the sheeting genuinely has gone, we oversheet or strip and replace. And we plan it round you — most of these buildings have somebody working underneath, so the sequence, the weather cover and often the hours are set by what the business needs rather than by what suits us.
What we cover
- Profiled steel and fibre cement sheet repair and replacement
- Cut-edge corrosion cleaned back and treated
- Perished fixings and washers renewed across a roof
- Brittle and yellowed GRP rooflight sheets replaced
- Valley and box gutters cleared, repaired and lined
- Single ply and built-up felt on flat commercial roofs
- Oversheeting where the existing roof is sound enough to stay
- Condition surveys with photographs, for budgeting or a lease
Also called Industrial and factory roofing · Factory roofing · Farm building roofing · Warehouse roofing · Commercial roofer
Want a price for this?
Describe what you can see from the ground and we'll tell you what it is likely to be. Coming out to look costs nothing.
What the work looks like.
Our own photographs, taken on our own roofs — not a stock library.
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Worth knowing.
- Asbestos
- Plenty of older units are roofed in asbestos cement. We do not disturb it. If that is what you have, it needs a licensed contractor and we will say so rather than work around it.
- Line the gutter first
- On most leaking units the valley gutter is the problem, not the sheeting. Lining it is the cheapest useful thing you can do to the building.
- Working over a live unit
- We sequence the work so the inside stays dry and usable, and we will work evenings or weekends where that is what it takes.
- What size we take on
- Workshops, farm buildings, small industrial units and community buildings. We are a family firm, not a national contractor, and we would rather tell you a job is too big than make a mess of it.
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The other things we do.
Most jobs turn out to be more than one of these at once. If you're not sure which you need, describe what you can see and we'll work it out.
Slating and tiling
Nearly every pitched roof on this coast is slate. Stripping them, re-covering them, matching them to the terrace next door and putting stone back on the ones that had it.
Flat roofs
Fibreglass, EPDM rubber and torch-on felt for extensions, dormers, garages and porches. Laid to falls so water actually leaves the roof.
Repairs and leaks
Slipped slates, cracked tiles, failed valleys, damp patches on the ceiling. We find where the water is getting in before we quote for anything bigger.
Chimneys and leadwork
Repointing, flaunching, chimney removal and rebuilds, plus lead flashings, valleys and soakers cut and dressed on site.
Gutters, fascias and soffits
The cheapest part of the house to look after and the one most often left. Clearing, repairing and replacing gutters, downpipes, fascias and soffits.
Storm damage
Emergency call-outs, tarpaulins and temporary covers when the weather comes in off the Irish Sea. We work with insurers and can supply photos and reports.
Get the unit surveyed.
Coming out to look costs nothing and there's no call-out charge. You get a written price before anyone lifts a slate.
Fill this in and we'll come back to you the same day, usually within a couple of hours. If water is coming in right now, don't type — phone.
07743 455071- 01We ring you back to talk through what you've got.
- 02We come out and look at the roof properly, free of charge.
- 03You get a written price with nothing hidden in it.