A roof that starts at the rafters.
A first roof is the one chance to get the pitch, the membrane and the detailing right. Everything after that is a repair. Most of ours go on extensions, dormers and garages, working to the drawings alongside whoever is building it.
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every job covered, from a single slate to a full re-roof
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New roof installation.
A new roof is a different job from re-covering an old one. There is no existing covering to tell us what works, no previous roofer's decisions to inherit and no surprise underneath when we strip it. What there is instead is a drawing, a pitch somebody has already settled on, and a house that will live with the result for sixty years.
The pitch is the thing that decides most of it. Above about 22 degrees you can slate it. Between roughly 15 and 22 you are into interlocking tile or a slate with a manufacturer's low-pitch approval. Below 15 it is not a slate roof at all, whatever the drawing says, and the honest answer is a flat system instead. We would rather have that conversation before the joiner has cut the rafters than after.
Then it is membrane, battens and covering, with the eaves, verges and abutments detailed so wind and driven rain have nowhere to get in. This coast tests all three. We work to the drawings and around whoever else is on site, and we leave what Building Control or your warranty provider needs to see.
What a new roof covers
- A look at the drawings and the pitch before anything is ordered
- Breathable membrane laid and lapped to BS 5250
- Graded, treated battens set out to the right gauge
- Slate, tile or stone chosen for the pitch and the exposure
- Eaves and ridge ventilation where the build-up needs it
- Lead soakers, flashings and abutment detailing
- Dry ridge and dry verge, mechanically fixed to BS 5534
- Photographs of the build-up before it is covered, for your records
Also called Roof installation · Brand new roof · New build roofing · Extension roof · Garage roof
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.
- Tell us early
- The cheapest time to change a roof covering is while it is still a line on a drawing. Once the rafters are up, the pitch is the pitch.
- Working round a builder
- On most extensions we are one trade among several. We will fit round the programme rather than turning up and expecting the site to ourselves.
- Building Control
- We photograph the membrane, battens and insulation build-up before the covering goes on, so there is evidence when the inspector comes.
- Garages and outbuildings
- Worth doing properly. A cheap garage roof is the one that has you back up a ladder in five years, and it is usually the easiest roof on the plot to get right.
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The rest of slating and tiling.
These sit alongside this one under slating and tiling. If yours turns out to be one of those instead, the price is worked out the same way.
Re-roofing
Stripped to the rafters, felted, battened and re-covered. A standard semi is usually two days once the scaffold is up.
Slate roofing
Welsh, Spanish, reclaimed and Lakeland green — what separates one slate from another, and which one belongs on your house.
Heritage roofing
Listed buildings, conservation areas and old stone houses. Reclaimed slate, lime mortar, and the conversation with the conservation officer before the scaffold goes up.
Stone roofs
Cumbrian stone slate and Westmorland green, graded and set out in diminishing courses. Heavy coverings, so the timbers get looked at before anything goes back on.
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.
- Roof maintenanceGeneral maintenance · Annual roof check · Roof survey · Moss removal
- Commercial and industrial roofingIndustrial and factory roofing · Factory roofing · Farm building roofing · Warehouse roofing · Commercial roofer
- Roof windows and glazingRooflights · Sky lights · Roof glazing · Daylight into a loft
- Roofing materialsRoofing material · Roofing supplies
Get a price for the new roof.
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.