Roof repairs and leaks
Slipped tiles, leaks and storm damage, found and fixed.
Slipped tiles, leaks and storm damage. Found, fixed, not patched over. Send a photo on WhatsApp and you will be told where you stand.
Water that gets in keeps getting in, and every downpour takes it further into the timbers. A photo from the ground is enough to make a start.
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- Ring the number and you are talking to Cody, who runs the firm
- A team behind him: some jobs Cody does himself, some the team does
- Every photo on this site is one of our own jobs
What happens next
Finding the leak
Water does not come in where it shows. A stain on a bedroom ceiling can be from a slipped tile two metres higher up the slope, a cracked tile at the ridge, a lead valley that has split, a chimney flashing that has lifted, or a gutter that overflows behind the fascia every time it rains hard. The wet finds a route along a rafter or across the top of the felt and drops off wherever it likes. So a repair starts with finding the way in, and that means getting on the roof and looking, not standing in the garden and guessing. Once the way in is found, the fix is often small: a tile, a slate, a length of lead, a ridge re-bedded. Found, fixed and not patched over means the fault that let the water in is the thing that gets put right, not the stain it left. Some of the photographs on this page are repairs on our own jobs, like the slate roof with new slates let into the original coursing, and some are roofs as they were found, so you can see what a slipped tile or a worn hip looks like from up there.
Common repairs
Slipped and broken tiles and slates. Leaks at valleys, chimneys and where a roof meets a wall. Storm damage, which is usually tiles lifted by wind and the felt torn underneath. Ridge and hip tiles that have come loose. Flat roofs that have cracked at the edge.
A repair or a re-roof
Some roofs are past repairing. If the tiles are flaking, the battens are rotten and the felt has perished, another patch buys a winter and not much more. When that is the case you are told straight, and the choice is yours.
A roof repair, start to finish
What you can see
Tell Cody what you have noticed: a stain on a ceiling, a tile on the lawn, a drip in heavy rain. A photo from the ground helps, through the form or on WhatsApp.
The way in
Water rarely comes in where it shows, so the repair starts on the roof, tracing the route the water took to the stain.
The fault, fixed
The tile, slate, lead or ridge that let the water in is what gets put right. If the roof is past repairing, you are told so plainly and the choice stays yours.
Repairs, and roofs as they were found
Storm-damaged roof opened up for repair, tiles stripped back to the felt Tiles off in a band across the roof, membrane showing underneath A row of odd tiles in an older tiled roof Tiled roof with a gap at the top of the valley where tiles have gone Old tiled roof with lichen and worn hip tiles Old tiled roof with a roof ladder in place
Roof repair questions
Can you find a leak from a photo?
A photo shows Cody what he is dealing with and where to look first. Finding the way in for certain means getting on the roof.
Do you repair slate roofs?
Yes. New slates are let into the old coursing, and there is a slate roof repaired that way in the photographs on this page.
What causes slipped tiles?
Usually a nail or a nib that has given up with age, or wind getting under a tile and lifting it. Once one goes, the rain can reach the felt beneath.
How much does a roof repair cost?
It depends what has failed and how easy it is to reach, which is why the form asks what needs doing. With a photo, Cody can tell you where you stand.
The first phone call
Ring or send a photo
Ring Cody on the number at the top of the page. If he is up a ladder when you ring, send a WhatsApp with a photo of the problem instead.
A straight answer
You are told straight whether it is a job for us and where you stand. Photos of the problem help, and WhatsApp is the easy way to send them.
The work, then a tidy site
The roof is done the way the photographs on this site show it: timbers checked, finished tidy, ridge bedded, verges pointed and the site left clean.
A roof to look at
Ring Cody, or send photos of the problem on WhatsApp, and you will be told where you stand.
07925 796983If he is up a ladder when you ring, send a WhatsApp with a photo of the problem instead.