Roofers Churwell

Churwell roofing, the short version

A steep stone village on the hill between Beeston and Morley, old cottages at the top and several hundred newer houses on ground the pit and the brickworks left behind. Churwell 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. If your house is anywhere near Churwell Hill, Old Road and the new village off Victoria Road, the chances are we have had a ladder up on the same row. Ring for a free survey and a written price with nothing attached to it.

What we take on for Churwell roofs

Roofers in Churwell: roofing and roof repairs across LS27

Churwell is built on a hill and that governs nearly everything about its roofs. The A643 climbs out of the Elland Road end and changes its name to Victoria Road near the top, and the stone cottages and terraces along it sit stepped into the slope with their backs dug into the bank. Above and behind them are 1960s council and private semis, and since the turn of the century several hundred new homes have gone up on the old pit and brickworks land. That gives you stone slate and Welsh slate at one end of the age range, weathered concrete interlockings in the middle, and modern dry-fix detailing on the newest streets.

On the stepped terraces the job that comes round again and again is the back gutter, and the abutment where one roof runs into next door's at a different height. Old stone slate loses its pegs and nails, and because the stone is heavy one slip usually brings two or three more with it. The sixties semis have reached the point where the tiles have lost their surface and sit wet on the north pitch, with ridge and hip mortar cracked right through. On the newer village the faults are workmanship rather than age: verge units popping off, dry ridge systems never clipped down properly, and extension flat roofs that were never laid to a fall worth the name.

A hill this steep makes access half the job. Vans cannot always get round the back on Old Road and the streets off it, and scaffold on a sloping terrace has to be built properly rather than propped. Exposure changes as you climb, too. Houses at the top get wind straight off the open ground towards Morley and lose verge and ridge first, while lower down there is more shelter but heavier shade and thicker moss. The wooded ground on the valley side drops leaf into the gutters every autumn, and a blocked gutter here soaks the stonework rather than politely spilling on the path.

Churwell is an easy one from our side. Down the M606 onto the M62, off at the Gildersome junction and up through Cottingley, and we are on the hill. We survey for nothing, put the drone up where a pitch is too steep or too brittle to be walked safely, and set out what we found and what it costs in writing before anyone commits to anything. Every job we install carries a ten-year written workmanship guarantee, we hold £5m public liability insurance, and storm damage and live leaks get an emergency callout seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.

Churwell houses and the roofs they carry

1930s semis and their hipped roofs

The 1930s semis in Churwell 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.

Post-war estates

Post-war housing in Churwell is largely concrete tile gone porous, brittle felt at the eaves and fascia boards quietly rotting behind the gutter. Re-covers are normal at this age, and ours go on with breathable membrane, dry verges and ventilation that actually does something.

Large detached houses

The larger detached houses in Churwell have busy roofs: several hips, long valleys, dormers, and whatever has been added on over thirty years. The work has to be neat and the materials have to match, and the drive and the borders get looked after while we are on site.

Recent developments

Newer houses in Churwell 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.

Around Churwell Hill, Old Road and the new village off Victoria Road is the part of Churwell we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.

What we are called out to most in LS27

• Concrete tiles gone porous and holding damp
• Felt turned brittle and split along the eaves
• Multi-hip roofs with long, awkward valleys
• Extension and conservatory abutments flashed badly from new
• 1930s coverings reaching the end all at once
• Cement-bedded ridges cracked the length of the run

Most of that list starts cheap and turns expensive. Ring 0113 460 1042 or book the survey while it is still the cheap version.

Why Churwell property owners use Bradford Roofing

• Bradford firm, Churwell on the round — The yard is in Bradford, not a call centre in another county. Whoever climbs up to survey the roof in Churwell is one of the people who comes back to do the work.
• 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 Churwell 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.
• Finance on the larger jobs — Re-roofs and chimney rebuilds can be spread on qualifying work. Ask when the written quote lands and we will set out what is available.

Around Churwell

Same van, same week: Cottingley (LS11), Farnley (LS12), Gildersome (LS27), roofers in Morley, roofers in Wortley and Beeston. The full list runs the length of Leeds and the Bradford district.