Roofing in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
There are two roofing jobs in Hinckley and it is worth knowing which one you have before anybody quotes.
The late Victorian housing around Druid Street and the centre is largely slate on cut timbers, built tight in terraces and pairs, with shared party details and valleys where the runs meet. Valleys and abutments are where water gets in. A valley patched for twenty years will keep failing in the same place until the lead is renewed properly, and sealant only postpones the conversation.
The interwar, post-war and modern housing is concrete tile on trussed rafters. The common mistake runs the other way here: a roof built for concrete tile will generally take slate, but a roof built for slate cannot always take concrete tile, because concrete is heavier. If somebody offers to re-cover an old slate roof in concrete without examining the structure, get a second opinion.
Re-covering is where Building Regulations become involved, because replacing a substantial part of a covering triggers a requirement to look at insulation. We arrange the inspection for that and see it through to sign off.
In a conservation area the covering material is not a free choice, and in the Druid Street area, where the buildings read as one tightly dated group, that is enforced with more consistency than most places. We check before quoting. More 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 Hinckley & Bosworth 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 Hinckley street to the next.
Scaffold on a narrow Hinckley frontage usually has to stand on the footway or the carriageway, which is a highway licence from Leicestershire County Council arranged by the scaffold company, and it has to be in hand before the tower goes up. We also do not strip more roof in a day than we can make watertight by the evening, even where that means a shorter day than the programme would like.
Chimney stacks are the part of an older Hinckley roof most likely to be quietly failing. On the terraces the stacks are shared, exposed on every side, and usually still carrying their original flaunching. Once the roof around a stack has been patched a few times the stack is generally next. If scaffold is already up for a re-cover, dealing with it then costs a fraction of bringing the scaffold back in three years for something that was visible on day one.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
