Roofing in Burbage, priced in writing before anything starts.
Roofing in the Burbage core has one characteristic that governs everything: the roofs run continuously from house to house.
That has two consequences. The first is that a repair on your roof frequently touches your neighbour’s, at a shared valley, a party wall upstand or a stack that serves both. Those junctions are where water gets in, and they are also where responsibility gets murky. We establish who owns what before we start rather than halfway through, and where the work is notifiable under the Party Wall Act we say so.
The second is access, which is covered below but is genuinely a roofing issue here rather than a general one.
The older village roofs are slate or clay tile on cut timbers, and in the conservation area the covering material is not a free choice. The estate housing is concrete tile on trussed rafters and much simpler. The weight point still applies: a roof built for concrete tile will generally take slate, but a roof built for slate cannot always take concrete tile, and on a light old cottage structure that margin is real.
Re-covering triggers a Building Regulations requirement to look at insulation, and we arrange that inspection and see it through to sign off. 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 Burbage street to the next.
With the house on the footpath there is nowhere for scaffold to stand except the public highway, so a scaffold licence from Leicestershire County Council is needed before the tower goes up, arranged by the scaffold company. The pavement also has to remain passable, which on a narrow frontage means a properly designed scaffold rather than the cheapest one.
We do not strip more roof in a day than we can make watertight by the evening. On a continuous terrace that matters doubly, because an open roof is a risk to the houses either side as well as to yours.
Scaffold on a continuous terrace usually has to tie into the building, and on a shared frontage that means fixings in masonry your neighbour also owns. We agree that in advance rather than drilling first and explaining afterwards, and we make good properly when the scaffold comes down instead of leaving a row of plugged holes across the front of the street.
Part of our wider building work in Burbage.
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.
