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Roofing in Burmantofts (LS9) 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.
Inner east Leeds, where Victorian terraces, post-war blocks and the hospital estate sit within a few streets of one another. Burmantofts 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 Burmantofts 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 →Burmantofts is a mixture of periods within a few streets. Surviving Victorian terraces and back-to-backs off Beckett Street and Burmantofts Street, post-war low-rise and high-rise blocks around Ebor Gardens and Lincoln Green, later social housing and modern infill, and a lot of institutional and commercial property along York Road and around the hospital. Roof types run from Welsh slate on the old terraces through concrete tile on the post-war housing to flat asphalt, felt and membrane on the blocks and commercial buildings. The clay that made the district's terracotta came out of the ground here, and it is still on the older frontages.
On the terraces it is the familiar list: slipped slates from corroded nails, shared stacks wanting pointing and flaunching, cracked cement fillets at the abutments, and continuous gutters blocking at the joints. On the blocks and flat-roofed buildings the failures sit at the details. Upstands too shallow, outlets silted up, laps that have opened, and penetrations where a cable or a pipe has gone through a membrane without a proper collar. Older asphalt cracks at movement joints and around parapets. Redundant stacks on the terraces still take wind and weather with nothing being spent on keeping them sound.
Multi-occupancy and managed property is common here, so a written report with photographs counts for a great deal more than a figure given at the door. We survey, set out what is urgent and what can be planned, and put it in a form a housing officer, a managing agent or an insurer can work from. Access comes off busy roads with restricted parking, and on blocks there are residents underneath, so scaffold, hoists and timings get agreed beforehand. Where a roof is high or hard to reach we take drone images rather than guess at what is happening behind a parapet.
We run in from Bradford on the A647 through the city and out along the York Road side, or on the M606 and M62 and up when the middle of Leeds is choked. We do commercial and multi-occupancy work as well as houses, with reports and quotes that stand up to scrutiny and photographs against every line of them. If a block needs the work splitting across two budget years we will set it out that way rather than pretending it all has to happen at once. £5m public liability insurance, free survey and written quote, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee on qualifying work, and emergency callouts seven days a week for live leaks and storm damage. Ring 0113 460 1042 and we will come and have a proper look.
Blocks around Burmantofts run from single-ply on the newer schemes to felt and the odd mansard on the older conversions. Getting up there safely is most of the planning, so access is settled first and everything else follows from it.
Big period property in Burmantofts, 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.
The terraced rows in Burmantofts 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 1950s and 1960s houses in Burmantofts 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.
In Burmantofts that mostly means Beckett Street, Burmantofts Street and the streets round Ebor Gardens, 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 Burmantofts, the neighbouring pages are Lincoln Green (LS9), Quarry Hill, Arena Quarter, Richmond Hill (LS9), Harehills and roofers in Leeds Centre — and then every other area across Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty 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 LS9.