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Roofing in Baildon (BD17) from a firm working out of Bradford itself. Leaks traced back to where the water actually starts, stone slate re-fixed, stacks repointed in lime, gutters re-hung.
A gritstone village that climbs off the Aire onto open moor, with a conservation-area core of stone-slated cottages and streets of later housing spreading out behind it. Baildon 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. The stock changes street by street here, but the method does not: get up on it or fly it, find where the water is really getting in, explain it in plain words, then put the price in writing.
Off, re-battened, breathable membrane, then a covering that suits the street. Stone slate, Welsh slate, clay or concrete.
What this covers →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 →Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.
What this covers →Baildon puts two different roofing jobs inside one postcode. The conservation-area core round Browgate, Northgate and the old village is stone built and stone slated, with graded Yorkshire slate laid in diminishing courses on roofs that have carried that weight since long before anybody thought about breathable membranes. Behind and above it sit Victorian and Edwardian terraces, inter-war semis and a great deal of later estate housing on concrete tile. Work in the old core has to be like for like, with the slate reclaimed and regraded and the mortar lime based. Work on the estates is ordinary tiling. Pricing one as though it were the other is how people get caught out.
Weight and fixing decide a stone slate job here. A Yorkshire slate roof can run to a hundred kilos a square metre, so before anything comes off we want to see the rafters, the purlins and the wall plate, because a roof that has been re-laid once already may well have been laid back onto tired timber. The original oak pegs perish, and the slate then creeps down the roof a course at a time rather than coming off in a gale. Stripping, sorting and re-laying on new treated battens with stainless fixings is the right repair; picking up the slipped ones and bedding them in mortar is not.
Then there is the moor. Baildon sits high with the ground rising to the open top behind it, and wind that comes across Baildon Moor and down over Shipley Glen hits the west and north elevations with nothing in the way. Ridge lines, verges and stack tops take it first. Gritstone chimneys up here are often soot blackened and soft in the joints, and cement pointing applied at some point in the past has trapped water in the stone rather than keeping it out. Repointing in lime, re-flaunching and putting lead soakers back where mortar fillets have been used is regular work on the higher streets.
Baildon is a short run up the valley for us and we are in BD17 most weeks, on stone and on tile alike. The survey costs nothing, we get photographs of the ridge and the stack tops by drone where walking a stone roof would break slates, and the findings go in writing, separating the work that will not wait from the work that will. Stone slate stripping and re-laying, Welsh slate, tiling and re-roofs, lead valleys and soakers, chimney rebuilds and lime repointing, gutters, fascias and flat roofs. Insured to five million pounds, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, and we turn out at weekends when a gale has done damage.
Big period property in Baildon, 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.
Detached property in Baildon 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.
Newer houses in Baildon get roof problems too, just different ones: dry-verge caps lifting, ridges that were never bedded properly, and snagging the builder walked away from. We put the details right and pick it up from where the warranty ran out.
Listed buildings and conservation streets in Baildon come with rules attached, and those rules exist for a reason. Matched stone slate or Welsh slate, lime rather than cement, lead dressed the way it was meant to be, and a straight word from us about whether consent is needed before anything is priced.
In Baildon that mostly means Browgate, Northgate and the roads climbing towards Baildon Moor, and the streets running off them.
If the roof is doing any of that, book a free survey or ring 0113 460 1042. We will tell you what needs doing and, just as plainly, what does not.
If you are right on the edge of Baildon, the neighbouring pages are roofers in Shipley, Saltaire (BD18), Thackley (BD10), Nab Wood, roofers in Wrose and Idle (BD10) — and then every other area across the Bradford district and Leeds.
The Aire valley, 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 BD17.