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Bradford-based roofers working Belle Isle and the rest of LS10. Repairs, re-roofs, stone slate, flat roofs, chimneys and guttering, surveyed free and quoted on paper.
South Leeds council-built housing on wide sweeping roads, with Middleton Park along one whole side of it. Belle Isle is about twenty minutes out, down the valley or over the tops depending on what the traffic is doing, and we are across there constantly. Most calls from Belle Isle 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.
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 →Mills, units, shops, schools and warehouses. Drone survey, written report, work phased round trading and stock.
What this covers →Belle Isle is mostly inter-war and post-war estate housing: semis and short terraces along Belle Isle Road and Winrose Drive and the curving roads running back towards Middleton Park, with later infill and a number of maisonette and low-rise blocks. The standard covering is concrete interlocking tile, much of it original to the build and now well weathered, with clay tile on the earlier phases. The roofs themselves are simple, being duo-pitch with hipped ends on the corner blocks, shallow porch canopies and flat roofs over rear additions and outbuildings.
Concrete tile of that vintage has usually lost its surface. It goes porous, holds water, grows moss and starts breaking at the nib, and once tiles begin cracking on one slope the rest are exactly the same age. Mortar-bedded ridges and hips are the other standing problem: the bedding cracks, the tiles rock, and the next gale takes them off. Underlay from the original build has gone brittle and torn back at the eaves, so anything getting past a slipped tile ends up sitting on the wall head. Flat roofs over outbuildings and rear additions are frequently still on their first felt.
Because the houses went up in phases to a small number of designs, faults arrive in batches along a street rather than singly. That is useful. If we are already set up on one property the neighbours can be looked at and quoted while the access is there, with everyone paying for their own. A lot of the housing is rented, privately or otherwise, so we write everything up with photographs as a matter of course. The estate sits fairly high and open and the roads along the park edge get the wind across open ground, which is where the lifted ridges turn up after a storm.
From Bradford it is the M606 onto the M62 and round to the M621, then down into LS10, so it is motorway nearly the whole way. We will say straight out whether a roof needs repairing or stripping and re-covering, and we will not quote a full re-roof where a batch of replacement tiles and a dry-fix ridge will see it out. Free survey and a written quote, £5m public liability insurance, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee on qualifying work, and emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042 and we will come and have a proper look.
The terraced rows in Belle Isle 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.
The 1930s semis in Belle Isle have reached the age where the covering, the cement-bedded ridges and the felt underneath all give out within a few years of one another. Where a repair is honest we quote the repair; where it is not, we say so and price the re-cover.
The 1950s and 1960s houses in Belle Isle have plain gabled or hipped roofs, which keeps a re-cover sensible on price. Fascia, soffit and gutter replacement on these streets is a steady part of most weeks.
The modern estates around Belle Isle are mostly interlocking concrete tile on dry-fix systems. The faults tend to be small, irritating and wind-related, and they get sorted with parts that match the rest of the roof.
The Belle Isle addresses we end up at most often are around Belle Isle Road, Winrose Drive and the roads backing onto Middleton Park, plus everything tucked in behind them.
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.
We are in and out of Hunslet (LS10), Beeston (LS11), Beeston Hill (LS11), Richmond Hill, Middleton and Robin Hood (WF3) on the same trips that bring us to Belle Isle, and the finder covers the rest of Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty minutes out.
Say what you have noticed and we will pick it up from there. Free survey, an itemised written price, and ten years on the work right across LS10.