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Bradford-based roofers working Adwalton and the rest of BD11. Repairs, re-roofs, stone slate, flat roofs, chimneys and guttering, surveyed free and quoted on paper.
A ridge-top village on the old Bradford to Wakefield road, battlefield moor on one side and the Spen valley falling away on the other. Adwalton is barely out of the city centre, so surveys and small jobs there get slotted in around bigger work on the same side of Bradford. If your house is anywhere near the A650 frontages and the streets off Adwalton Moor, the chances are we have had a ladder up on the same row. Ring for a free survey and a written price with nothing attached to it.
GRP, EPDM and torch-on felt over back extensions, dormers, mill outriggers and garages, laid to a fall that clears itself.
What this covers →Heavy gritstone slate on the old terraces, Welsh slate on the villas, tile on the estates. Matched, coursed and mechanically fixed.
What this covers →Soot-black gritstone stacks repointed in lime, rebuilt, re-flaunched, re-flashed. Take-downs below the slate line as well.
What this covers →Rotten boards stripped out, UPVC or timber in, eaves ventilation kept open, done while the gutter work is on the same scaffold.
What this covers →Cast iron, aluminium and UPVC hung, re-falled, cleared and repaired, shared terrace runs and back-to-back gutters included.
What this covers →Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.
What this covers →Adwalton is close enough to Bradford that we are through it most weeks. It is a stone village that grew along the A650 and then filled out behind the main road with semis from the thirties and estate housing from the fifties. The older cottages and through terraces are gritstone under heavy Yorkshire stone slate, laid in diminishing courses and putting a great deal of weight on original timbers. The semis behind are clay or concrete interlocking tile. The newer closes on the moor side are modern concrete tile on dry-fix ridges. Three different sorts of roof with three different sets of problems, often within a hundred yards of each other.
On the stone slate the trouble is load and fixings. Pegs and nails give up, slates slip, and somebody patches the gap with a lighter modern slate that will not sit right and lets water track past the course below. Torching falls away and the roof breathes cold into the bedrooms. On the inter-war semis the weak points are bedded ridges, rusted hip irons and the cement fillets where a stack passes through the slope. Around the flat-roofed rear extensions and garages, old felt has gone brittle at the edges and water now stands where the fall has flattened off.
The ridge position is the thing you feel here. Adwalton sits high with the moor open to the west and the ground dropping towards the Spen valley, so the prevailing wind reaches the roofs unbroken. Ridge tiles and gable verges take the brunt, and once a single verge tile lifts the wind gets underneath the course and works along it. After a gale we generally find lifted ridges, cracked verge bedding and slipped slates on the exposed gables rather than wholesale damage. Gutters on the terraces are shared runs, so a blockage at one house often shows as damp two doors along.
This is home ground. Straight out of Bradford on the A650, or round on the A6177 and across, and we are in BD11 without planning a day round it. That matters most for storm work, because we can get a temporary cover on a roof and then come back and do the job properly rather than bodging it in the wet. Emergency callouts run seven days a week for live leaks and storm damage. Surveys and written quotes are free, we hold £5m public liability insurance, and qualifying work carries a ten-year written workmanship guarantee. Ring 0113 460 1042 and we will come and have a proper look.
Commercial roofs around Adwalton are nearly all flat or shallow, and three faults cover most of it: felt blistered and split, fibreglass cracked along the trim, and a box gutter that has not been cleared since the building opened. We fly them, write the report up with the photographs, and phase the work round trading hours.
On protected property in Adwalton we repair before we replace. Every sound slate goes back on, the shortfall is made up in reclaimed stock of the same size and thickness, and the lead is dressed properly instead of being buried in mastic.
Stone houses around Adwalton carry heavy gritstone or Welsh slate on timbers that have held it for well over a century. What comes round again and again is slates split and crept after a hard frost, ridges bedded in cement that has cracked along the run, and lead torn at the fold where it was always going to go.
Big period property in Adwalton, whether still one household or now cut into three flats, wants a proper scaffold and somebody comfortable on old slate. Like-for-like slating, stacks rebuilt where they have opened up, and the dormers and bay tops put right on the same visit.
Around the A650 frontages and the streets off Adwalton Moor is the part of Adwalton we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.
Spotted one of those from the ground? Put the details in or ring 0113 460 1042 and we will get the drone up and show you what is really going on up there.
If you are right on the edge of Adwalton, the neighbouring pages are Drighlington (BD11), Tong (BD4), Holme Wood, roofers in Gildersome, Tyersal and roofers in Bierley — and then every other area across Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a few minutes out.
Phone or put the form in, whichever is easier. Free survey, written quote and a ten-year guarantee, the same across the whole of BD11.