Roofing in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
There are two quite different roofing jobs in Lutterworth and it is worth knowing which one you have.
The older housing in and around the conservation area is largely slate, on cut timbers, often with valley gutters and parapets where a Georgian frontage was added to an older building. Those details are where the water gets in. A parapet gutter that has been patched for twenty years will keep failing at the same place until the lead is renewed properly, and no amount of sealant fixes it.
Post-war and modern housing north and east of the town is concrete tile on trussed rafters. The common mistake here runs the other way: a roof designed for concrete tile can generally take slate, but a roof designed for slate cannot always take concrete tile, because the tile is heavier. If somebody offers to re-cover an old slate roof in concrete without looking at the structure, get a second opinion.
Re-covering is the point at which the Building Regulations become involved, because replacing a substantial part of a roof covering triggers a requirement to look at insulation. We arrange the Building Control inspection for that and see it through to sign off.
In the conservation area the covering material is not a free choice. We check before quoting, and we quote the material that will actually get through.
There is more detail 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 Harborough 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 Lutterworth street to the next.
Roofing needs scaffold, and scaffold on a narrow Lutterworth frontage often has to stand on the footway or the road. That is a highway licence from Leicestershire County Council, arranged by the scaffold company, and it needs to be in hand before the tower goes up rather than on the morning.
On the long burgage plots the rear elevation is usually the easier side to scaffold and the front is the one that needs the paperwork. We factor both into the programme so the roof is not left open waiting for a permit. Weather is the other thing we plan around, and we will not strip more roof in a day than we can make watertight again by the evening, even where that means a shorter day than the programme would like.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
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.
