Roofing in Leamington Spa, priced in writing before anything starts.
Roofing in Leamington is mostly about what you cannot see from the street, because on the spa era buildings the roof is hidden behind a parapet and drains in ways the elevation gives no clue about.
Parapet gutters are the single biggest source of trouble in this town. A gutter running behind a parapet is doing a hard job in a place nobody looks, usually lined in lead that has been patched repeatedly. When it fails, the water goes into the building rather than down the outside, so the first sign is a damp ceiling rather than a wet wall. Patching buys a season. Renewing the lead properly, with the right laps and the right falls, is the only repair that lasts, and it is the one we quote.
Slate is the usual covering on the older stock, on cut timbers, often with shared party walls running up between properties in a terrace. Work on one roof frequently touches a neighbour’s, which is a party wall matter and worth raising early.
The later housing is concrete tile on trussed rafters and is a far simpler proposition. The weight point still matters: a roof built for concrete tile will generally take slate, but a roof built for slate cannot always take concrete tile.
Re-covering triggers a Building Regulations requirement to look at insulation, and we arrange that inspection and see it through to sign off. In a conservation area the covering is not a free choice. 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 Warwick District 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 Leamington Spa street to the next.
Scaffold on a Leamington frontage usually stands on the footway or the carriageway, which is a highway licence from Warwickshire County Council arranged by the scaffold company and needed before the tower goes up. On the wider Regency streets there is often room; on the terraces there is not.
We do not strip more roof in a day than we can make watertight by the evening. On a parapet roof that discipline matters more than usual, because there is no overhang and nowhere for driven rain to go except inside.
Lead has thickness codes, and using too thin a code on a long parapet gutter is the most common false economy in this town.
Part of our wider building work in Leamington Spa.
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.
