Roofers Bramley

Bramley roofing, the short version

A west Leeds township on the hillside above the Aire, Victorian core, big estates behind it and a famous set of Edwardian baths. Bramley 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. The same short list of faults keeps coming back on Bramley roofs, and the useful part of a survey is knowing which of them is a morning's work and which means the covering has finally had its day.

What we take on for Bramley roofs

Roofers in Bramley: roofing and roof repairs across LS13

Bramley covers a lot of ground and a lot of building periods. There are Victorian stone and brick terraces and back-to-backs around Town Street, Hough Lane and Broad Lane, mostly under Welsh slate or Yorkshire stone slate; large inter-war and post-war estates at Fairfield, Rossefield and Swinnow, tiled in concrete; and later infill and modern housing scattered through the lot. Add shops with flats above along Town Street and a good deal of commercial property along the Stanningley corridor, and the roofing work here takes in just about everything we do.

On the old terraces the problems are slipped slates from nail fatigue, shared stacks with open joints and failed flaunching, and cement fillets where a stack passes through a slope. The stone slate on the older Bramley property is heavy, and the timbers underneath are the thing we check before anything else. On the estates it is weathered concrete tile, cracked ridge and hip bedding, brittle original underlay and flat roofs over rear additions that are long past their date. On the commercial stock along the main road it is felt and asphalt over large flat areas with outlets nobody has cleared.

Bramley is on a hillside and the wind comes up it, particularly on the higher streets behind Town Street and up towards Swinnow, where ridges and verges go first. Lower down, the older streets are tighter and shaded and hold moss on the north slopes. Gutters on the terraced rows are continuous, so we always check the whole run rather than just your length, because it is very common for the water coming into your bedroom to be arriving from a dropped joint two doors up. Where a property is let, we write it up with photographs for the landlord as standard.

Bramley is about as close to Bradford as Leeds gets. The A647 runs straight through it along the Stanningley bypass, so we are in and out of LS13 constantly and getting to a live leak is not a special trip. That counts for something in a storm, when getting a cover on quickly is the difference between a wet loft and a collapsed ceiling. Emergency callouts seven days a week. Free survey and written quote, £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.

Bramley houses and the roofs they carry

Rented property

Landlords with property in Bramley want a fixed written price and no argument about access, and both are easy enough to give. Most of the work on lets is guttering, flashing and re-fixing slates, with a strip and re-cover booked in between tenancies.

Mill-era villas and conversions

The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Bramley carry steep slate, tall multi-flue stacks and long lead valleys, and most of the trouble is in the lead rather than the slate. Flashings done on the cheap a generation ago, cracked soakers and open stack joints account for most of the calls.

Stone terraced rows

Through terraces and back-to-backs in Bramley are simple shapes with awkward details: back gutters tucked behind the stacks, parapet and valley runs sitting full of water, and slates hanging on nails that gave up a long time ago. We fix whatever is letting the water in rather than chase the stain across the ceiling.

Inter-war semis

Inter-war housing around Bramley usually means hipped roofs in clay or early concrete tile over felt that was never expected to last ninety years. Hip irons, ridges and the eaves are where it shows first, and they are worth looking at before a winter rather than after one.

The ground we cover in Bramley is Bramley Town Street, Hough Lane and the streets off the Stanningley bypass, and the closes, folds and ginnels off it as well.

What we are called out to most in LS13

• Gutters on rented houses nobody has cleared in years
• Lead valleys and flashings behind tall stacks
• Nail sickness finally letting go on Victorian slate
• Stacks shared across the party wall
• Back and parapet gutters standing full of water
• Work carried out with tenants still in the house

If that is roughly what is happening at your place, ring 0113 460 1042 or send the details over. Looking costs nothing and guessing works out dearer.

Why Bramley property owners use Bradford Roofing

• Priced on paper, broken down — Every quote is written out and itemised, normally a day or so after the visit, so you can see what you are paying for and what has been left out on purpose.
• Drone up where a ladder tells you nothing — Steep gritstone pitches, tall multi-flue stacks and mill ranges get flown and photographed. You see exactly the same pictures we do before you decide anything.
• Insured, and guaranteed in writing — £5m public liability, £10m employer’s liability, and a ten-year written guarantee on the workmanship for all major work.
• Materials matched to Bramley roofs — Reclaimed Yorkshire stone slate, Welsh slate, clay and concrete tile matched to whatever came off, and lead used where lead belongs instead of tape and mastic.
• Storm work, seven days a week — When the wind strips a run of slates in Bramley it is the same number to ring. We make it safe first, photograph it for the insurer, then come back and repair it properly.

Around Bramley

Nearest to Bramley on our list are roofers in Stanningley, roofers in Rodley, roofers in Pudsey, Hawksworth, roofers in Kirkstall and Farsley. The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of Leeds and the Bradford district included.