Working roofers. Straight dealing.

Bradford, and why a roofer would want this patch

Stand anywhere on the rim of the Bradford basin and look down. What you see is a city built almost entirely out of local gritstone, roofed almost entirely in heavy stone slate, and then blackened by seventy years of mill smoke before anybody thought to clean it. Underneath that there is more variety than most cities manage: true back-to-backs where one covering serves two houses and neither owner has a rear elevation; long through terraces stepping up the valley sides with shared eaves gutters running six or eight houses at a stretch; Victorian villas in Heaton and Manningham with steep Welsh slate, tall multi-flue stacks and lead valleys thirty feet long; mill buildings along the Aire turned into flats, carrying acres of shallow roof and box gutters that nobody has cleared since the conversion.

Then the ground rises. Thornton, Denholme, Cullingworth, Oxenhope, Stanbury and Queensbury sit on the Pennine edge with nothing to the west of them, and roofs up there take weather that houses down in the basin never see. Saltaire sits between the two, a World Heritage Site where a repair has to match what came off and the answer on consent matters before anybody prices anything. That mix is the reason this is an interesting patch to work, and the reason a roofer here has to know more than one way of doing things.

The firm trades under its own name now. Before that, the roofers in it were doing the same work across Bradford and Leeds for other people. Nothing about how the job is done has changed. What has changed is whose name ends up on the guarantee.

What you get from us

• A survey that costs nothing, from the roof, a tower or the drone, with the photographs sent over to you afterwards.
• A straight answer, including the one where we say the covering will see another few winters and you keep your money.
• An itemised written quote, normally within a day of the visit, held open for 90 days.
• Turning up when we said we would, working clean, and telling you where things stand on the longer jobs.
• The right material for the building: reclaimed gritstone slate, Welsh slate, clay, concrete tile, and lead where lead belongs.
• Neighbours handled properly on back-to-backs, shared gutters and party-wall stacks, so the job actually gets agreed.
• Ten years of written workmanship cover, put in your hand the day the job is signed off.

What we will not do

• Put a founding date on the website that we cannot stand behind. The name is new and the site says so.
• Display trade-scheme logos we are not entitled to display.
• Write our own reviews. When customers leave them they will go up, and until then this site stays quiet on the subject.
• Sell a re-roof to somebody who rang about one slipped slate.
• Point a Victorian gritstone stack in hard cement because it is quicker than lime.
• Batten over wet timber, dress a flashing in mastic, or lay a membrane on a soaked deck.
• Ring three times after a quote. The survey was free and the decision is yours to make in your own time.

Cover and paperwork

We carry £5m public liability and £10m employer's liability, and the certificates go over before anybody starts if you would like to see them. Every job is photographed as found, as it goes and at the end. Quotes and guarantees are written, not spoken. Landlords, letting agents, insurers, managing agents and solicitors can have whatever documentation the file or the claim needs.

The patch

Bradford and its district are home ground: the city centre, Little Germany, Manningham, Girlington, Heaton, Frizinghall, Great Horton, Lidget Green, Wibsey, Buttershaw, Bowling, Bierley, Holme Wood, Laisterdyke, Bradford Moor, Undercliffe, Eccleshill, Idle, Thackley, Greengates and Apperley Bridge. Out along the Aire that means Shipley, Saltaire, Wrose, Baildon, Bingley, Cottingley, Crossflatts, Riddlesden, Keighley, Steeton and Silsden, and up the Worth valley Oakworth, Oxenhope and Haworth. West and south it takes in Allerton, Sandy Lane, Wilsden, Cullingworth, Denholme, Thornton, Clayton, Queensbury, Low Moor and Wyke. Leeds is a short run down the A647 through Pudsey or the A657 through Apperley Bridge, and every Leeds district has an area page of its own setting out the housing there and what those roofs normally need.