Roofing in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Roofing in Market Harborough carries a constraint that is easy to miss until the scaffold is up.
In Little Bowden the Article 4 direction covers front elevation alterations, and a roof covering is part of the front elevation as far as the street is concerned. Changing the material on a front slope, or altering the detail at the eaves or the verge in a way that reads differently from the ground, is not a neutral act there. We check before quoting rather than after, and we quote what will actually get through rather than the cheapest option.
Technically the town divides the usual way. The older housing is slate or clay tile on cut timbers, with the failures concentrated at valleys, abutments and chimney stacks rather than in the field of the roof. A valley patched for twenty years will keep failing at the same point until the lead is renewed properly.
The estate housing is concrete tile on trussed rafters, where the verge and the flashings are the weak points after several decades, and a dry verge system fixes a recurring gable end leak permanently for far less than the re-roof people assume they need.
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 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 Market Harborough street to the next.
Scaffold on an older frontage usually stands on the footway or carriageway, which is a highway licence from Leicestershire County Council arranged by the scaffold company and needed before the tower goes up.
In Little Bowden the scaffold cannot simply be founded on a front garden without regard to the boundary, so we work out where it stands at the survey rather than on the morning.
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, because a roof left open overnight costs far more than the day it saved.
Rainwater goods on a protected frontage are part of what the street sees. Cast iron that is sound is worth repairing and repainting rather than replacing in plastic, and in Little Bowden a change of material on the front of the building is exactly the kind of alteration the direction is concerned with. We price the like for like option and let you see both.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
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.
