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Homeowners, landlords and agents in Arthington ring us for anything from one crept slate to a full strip and re-cover. Insured, guaranteed in writing, and nobody trying to sell you a roof you do not need.
A scattered Wharfedale hamlet under a twenty-one-arch viaduct, made up of farms, estate cottages and a few large private houses. Arthington is a short run from the yard and we are on that side of the district most weeks, so a survey does not mean waiting about. Most calls from Arthington start with a stain spreading on a ceiling or a slate lying in the yard. The next step is a free look at the whole roof, with the drone up wherever the pitch is too steep or too high to read from the ground.
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 →There is not a great deal of Arthington, but what there is tends to be old, stone-built and expensive to get wrong. Farmhouses, barn conversions, estate cottages and some substantial private houses along Arthington Lane and Creskeld Lane, with gritstone walls and Yorkshire stone slate on the older property. Converted agricultural buildings bring their own issues: long unbroken slopes, rooflights cut into an existing covering, and valleys where a new range meets an old one at an angle nobody planned. Newer houses use reconstituted stone slate or plain tile. Very little here is a standard estate roof and almost nothing is a standard price.
Stone slate is heavy and these roofs are old, so the timber is the first thing we look at. Sagging ridges, spread rafters, rotten wall plates and purlin ends that have been quietly damp for years all show up before the covering itself gives out. The slates usually outlast everything else. It is the pegs, the nails, the torching and the sarking that go. Where slates have been replaced piecemeal with a lighter modern substitute the courses no longer diminish properly and water runs off the edge of the slate below. Lead valleys and back gutters behind chimneys are the other regular failure point.
The setting is exposed and heavily wooded at the same time. The valley funnels wind along its length, and the trees on the slopes below the viaduct drop enough leaf to fill a gutter run in a single autumn. Buildings stand on their own rather than in rows, so there is no shelter from a neighbour on any side. A good deal of the property here is listed or sits in a conservation area, and reclaimed stone slate, lime mortar and proper leadwork rather than substitutes will be expected on anything visible. We would rather explain that before quoting than surprise you with it afterwards.
From Bradford we go out on the A658 through Rawdon and past the airport, drop down towards Pool and turn along the valley, which is one of the easier runs on our patch and one we make often. On barns and long slopes we use a drone to look at the whole covering before anyone climbs anything, because guessing at the far end of a roof you cannot walk is how quotes go wrong. Free survey, a written quote that itemises the work, £5m public liability insurance and a ten-year written workmanship guarantee on qualifying work. Ring 0113 460 1042 and we will come and have a proper look.
On protected property in Arthington 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 Arthington 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.
The terraced rows in Arthington share a good deal more than a wall. The stack usually straddles the party line, and on the older streets the gutter runs the length of several houses, which is why a fault three doors down turns up in your back bedroom. We would rather see the whole run than one roof in isolation.
Detached property in Arthington from the 1960s onwards is coming round for full re-roofs now. In the meantime it is extension flat roofs and conservatory junctions that were never flashed properly in the first place.
In Arthington that mostly means Arthington Lane, Creskeld Lane and the property under the viaduct, and the streets running off them.
Sounds familiar? Ring 0113 460 1042 or ask for a survey. What you get back is a straight answer and a written price, not a sales visit.
Nearest to Arthington on our list are Pool-in-Wharfedale (LS21), roofers in Bramhope, Otley (LS21), roofers in Carlton, roofers in Rawdon and Yeadon (LS19). The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of Leeds and the Bradford district included.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a short run out.
One call and somebody comes out and looks at it properly. Free survey, written quote, and work guaranteed in writing throughout LS21.