Bradford district · Aire valley · Leeds

Bradford roofs, read properly before anybody quotes.

Stone slate on the old terraces, Welsh slate on the villas, felt and fibreglass over the back extensions, and gritstone stacks that have not been touched since the mills shut. We find out what has actually failed, show you the photographs, then put a figure on paper.

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01Water coming inStain spreading, drip in the loft, wet chimney breast.Start here →02Slates on the pathGone in the wind, or a course that has crept out of line.Start here →03Stack or lead goneCrumbling flaunching, open joints, flashing lifted off.Start here →04Flat roof pondingExtension, dormer or outrigger holding water after rain.Start here →
Where we work

The district first, then the whole of Leeds.

Bradford itself is the core of it: the city centre and Little Germany, Manningham, Heaton, Great Horton, Wibsey, Bowling, Bierley, Eccleshill and Idle. Then out along the Aire to Shipley, Saltaire, Baildon, Bingley and Keighley, up the Worth valley to Oakworth and Haworth, and west onto the tops at Thornton, Denholme, Cullingworth and Queensbury. Leeds is twenty minutes down the A647 or the A657, and every one of its districts has a page of its own.

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The work

Nine jobs. The same standard on all of them.

These are what fill an ordinary week on Bradford roofs, from a single cracked slate to the whole covering in a skip. Each page sets out what is involved, how it runs on site, and what people ring up to ask first.

Roof Repairs

Leaks followed back to where the water actually gets in, slates re-fixed, lead re-dressed. One visit, one written figure, ten years behind it.

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Re-Roofing & New Roofs

Off, re-battened, breathable membrane, then a covering that suits the street. Stone slate, Welsh slate, clay or concrete.

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Flat Roofing

GRP, EPDM and torch-on felt over back extensions, dormers, mill outriggers and garages, laid to a fall that clears itself.

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Stone Slate & Tiling

Heavy gritstone slate on the old terraces, Welsh slate on the villas, tile on the estates. Matched, coursed and mechanically fixed.

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Chimney Repairs

Soot-black gritstone stacks repointed in lime, rebuilt, re-flaunched, re-flashed. Take-downs below the slate line as well.

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Fascias, Soffits & Eaves

Rotten boards stripped out, UPVC or timber in, eaves ventilation kept open, done while the gutter work is on the same scaffold.

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Guttering

Cast iron, aluminium and UPVC hung, re-falled, cleared and repaired, shared terrace runs and back-to-back gutters included.

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Storm & Emergency Work

Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.

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Commercial & Mill Roofing

Mills, units, shops, schools and warehouses. Drone survey, written report, work phased round trading and stock.

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How a job runs

Four stages, and nothing invented in between.

1

Get a proper look

Off the roof where it is safe, off a tower where it is not, drone up on the tall stacks and steep slate. Every slope photographed, and the loft looked at from inside.

2

Say what has failed

In plain words, with the pictures in front of you. What went, why it went, and whether that is a morning's work or the whole covering.

3

Put it on paper

Itemised, written, usually with you inside a day and open for 90 days. Where repair and replacement are both defensible, each gets its own figure.

4

Do it and sign it off

Booked for real dates, worked clean, site cleared, gutters checked. Finished photographs and the ten-year written workmanship guarantee handed over at the end.

How we deal

Five things that hold whatever the roof is.

  • 01

    Nobody prices a roof from the pavement

    You cannot see a perished batten or a split valley from the street, and anyone who quotes from there is guessing. Photographs reach you before any figure does.

  • 02

    A repair when a repair is the right answer

    Most roofs sent to us for replacing wanted a day or two of work instead. Where it is genuinely borderline, both prices go on the quote and you choose.

  • 03

    Materials matched to the street

    Reclaimed gritstone slate on the old terraces, Welsh slate on the villas, matched tile on the estates, and lead at the abutments rather than a smear of mastic.

  • 04

    Neighbours dealt with, not ignored

    Back-to-backs, shared gutters and party-wall stacks need two households on side. We knock on, explain it, and split a quote so it reads fairly to both.

  • 05

    The number still answers in a gale

    Ridge gone overnight, water running down a chimney breast, felt lifted off a dormer. Make safe first, then the proper repair once the wind has dropped.

On the roof

Gritstone, soot, slate and shallow felt.

Bradford Roofing is a new name and there is no sense pretending otherwise: these show the kinds of roof that fill our week, not jobs completed under this name. Ours go up here as they are signed off and the customer is happy for them to.

Stone terraced houses stepping up a hillside street, with chimney stacks and aerials along the roofline
Stone slate

Through terraces climbing the valley side

Great Horton, Wibsey, Thornton
Gritstone chimney stacks and clay pots standing above the roof of a stone terrace
Stacks and lead

Gritstone chimneys taken back and rebuilt

Manningham, Bowling, Keighley
Stone cottages with a slate roof and a chimney stack below a wooded valley hillside
Welsh slate

Villas with steep pitches and long lead valleys

Heaton, Saltaire, Baildon
Chimney stacks and the slate roofline of a long stone terrace
Full strip

Estate housing still on its first covering

Holme Wood, Buttershaw, Allerton
Free, no visit

Want an opinion before anybody puts a ladder up?

Two ways to get one. Send a photograph of the roof, or answer five questions about it. Neither puts you on a call list and neither costs anything.

Send a roof photo

One shot from the pavement or the back yard is usually enough. We tell you what can be seen in it and whether it is worth a visit.

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Five-question roof check

Covering, damp, moss, gutters, storms. Out comes a score and a straight steer on whether it needs looking at now or can wait.

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Stone mill-town elevation with arched windows under a pitched roof and chimney stacks
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If water finds its way back in through something we fitted, putting it right is on us. A guarantee written on paper means nothing unless that part holds.

Bradford Roofing
Who we are

A Bradford firm, run by the men on the ladders.

The name is new and we would sooner put that on the first page than have you work it out later. The roofers behind it learned the trade on West Yorkshire roofs working for other people: stone slate on the terraces, lead on Victorian stacks, felt and fibreglass on flat extensions, and re-roofs on estates right across the district. They now trade under their own name because they wanted the job done their way.

So you will not find scheme badges on this site that nobody here has earned, and no reviews, because nobody has written one yet. What we can hand you is the insurance, the written guarantee, and a set of photographs of your own roof taken before a single slate is moved.

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Based in Bradford
£5m
Public liability cover
10yr
Written guarantee
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Before you ring

What people ask us first.

There are a good many more on the FAQ page. If yours is not there, ring and put it to us; the phone gets answered by a roofer, not a call centre.

All the FAQs
  • It is. Somebody comes out, gets a proper look at the covering, the flashings and the loft, photographs the lot and sends you a written price. Nothing is owed whichever way you decide.
  • Bradford and its district are home ground, from the city centre out to Shipley, Bingley, Keighley, Thornton, Queensbury and Haworth. We also cover every Leeds postcode, and there is an area page for each one.
  • Nearly always a repair. Plenty of roofs sent to us for replacing wanted a morning's work instead. Where it is genuinely borderline we price both options and hand you the photographs so you can see why.
  • Normally within a day of the visit. It is itemised, so you can see what each part of the job costs, and it stands for 90 days.
  • Our workmanship, in writing, for ten years. Materials carry their own manufacturers' warranties on top of that.
  • Yes. Reclaimed gritstone slate, lime pointing, lead dressed properly, and a straight answer on consent before anything is priced. A lot of Bradford needs exactly that.

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Free survey, a written price inside a day, and an honest answer on whether the work needs doing at all.

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