Roofing in Corby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Corby roofing is more uniform than anywhere else we work, which makes diagnosis quicker and the honest answer cheaper more often than people expect.
The overwhelming majority of the housing is concrete tile on trussed rafters, laid in quantity to a consistent standard from the 1950s onward. Those roofs do not usually fail in the field. They fail at the details, and after seventy years the details are the oldest thing about them.
The verge is the most common. A mortar bedded verge cracks over time, lets water under the end tiles and eventually lifts them in a gale, and it is the usual reason for a leak at a gable end rather than anything wrong with the covering. A dry verge system fixes it permanently and costs far less than the re-roof people assume they need.
Flashings are the other. Where an original roof meets a later extension, a porch or a chimney, the flashing was often the weakest element on the building and is now decades old. Most of the leaks we are called to on this stock originate there, and telling somebody they need a flashing rather than a roof is a smaller invoice and the correct answer.
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 coverings, flat roofs and repairs 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 North Northamptonshire 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 Corby street to the next.
Scaffold on a Corby plot usually stands on your own ground, which avoids a highway licence entirely and takes both cost and lead time out of the job. In the villages, where buildings meet the lane, a licence from the council is needed before the tower goes up.
Flat roofs over garages, porches and rear additions are common on this stock and are frequently at the end of their life all at once, because they went on at the same time. Where several are failing we will price them together rather than returning three times.
We do not strip more roof in a day than we can make watertight again by the evening, even where the programme would prefer otherwise.
Part of our wider building work in Corby.
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.
