Roofing in Rugby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most of the roofs we strip and re-cover in Rugby are failing at the battens and the felt rather than at the tiles. On the interwar and post-war housing the covering frequently has life left in it while the timber underneath does not, which is why a roof that looks sound from the pavement can still be the reason a bedroom ceiling is staining.
On the Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the town centre the recurring items are the chimney and the abutment details, and on a terrace those are shared with next door, so the work has to be planned with the neighbour rather than around them.
We survey from the roof, not from the ground. What we fit is on our roofing page.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Rugby Borough Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our roofing page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Rugby street to the next.
Re-covering a roof on a like-for-like basis is not normally a planning matter, though a change of covering type or profile can be, and it certainly is where permitted development rights have been removed.
It is a Building Regulations matter: a full strip and re-cover engages the thermal element rules and the work is notifiable. We arrange the inspections and see the work through to sign off.
Roofing needs scaffold, and on a Rugby terrace that fronts straight onto the pavement the scaffold stands on the highway, which needs a licence from the council before it goes up. That is the item that sets the start date, not our availability.
Where the property has a driveway or a side return the scaffold usually sits wholly within the boundary and the job can start sooner.
The other honest constraint is weather. A strip is not started unless the forecast gives us the window to get it back watertight, and we would rather move a start date by a few days than open a roof we cannot close.
Part of our wider building work in Rugby.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
