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Pitched and flat roofing across Colton and the wider LS15. The survey costs nothing, the quote is itemised on paper, and the workmanship carries a ten-year written guarantee.
A small old village centre swallowed by a modern estate of cul-de-sacs and ginnels, sat right on the point where the outer ring road runs out. Colton 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. The same short list of faults keeps coming back on Colton 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.
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 →Colton is mostly a late twentieth-century estate wrapped round a much older village centre. The closes off Colton Lane are cul-de-sacs linked by ginnels and back alleys, with detached and semi-detached houses, short terraces and small blocks of flats, nearly all of it on concrete interlocking tile with plain gable or hip ends. The old village at the Meynell Road and Park Road junction is a different thing entirely: older stone and brick property, the Methodist chapel, a few cottages. For roofers in Colton that means a lot of very similar roofs with very similar faults, and then a handful that need completely different materials.
Estate roofs of this age are all arriving at the same stage together. The concrete tiles have weathered smooth and started to absorb water rather than shed it, which shows as green north pitches and tiles that crack underfoot. Mortar bedding on ridges and hips has gone brittle and the ridge line begins to rock. Original bitumen felt at the eaves has perished where it laps into the gutter, so water gets behind rather than into the gutter, and the fascia softens from the back. Extension and garage flat roofs done on the cheap when the houses were built are usually the actual source of anything leaking indoors.
Colton is flat, open and on the outer eastern rim of the built-up city, with the A63 and the motorway junction on the doorstep and fields beyond. There is very little to slow the wind coming off that open ground, so the ends of rows and the exposed gable ends lose verge mortar and dry verge caps first, and once an edge lifts the wind gets its fingers under everything behind it. On the plus side the estate layout makes access easy, with parking and room to stand a scaffold on most of the closes, which keeps a straightforward re-cover simple to programme.
Getting here from Bradford is all dual carriageway: M606 to the M62, along to the motorway junction and in on the A63, or across on the ring road if the traffic is kinder. Because so many of the estate roofs are the same specification, we can usually tell you on the phone what is likely to be wrong before we even get the ladders off, then confirm it with a free survey and photographs. Written quote, itemised, no pressure. £5m public liability insurance, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.
Stone houses around Colton carry heavy gritstone or Welsh slate on timbers that have held it for well over a century. What comes round again and again is slates split and crept after a hard frost, ridges bedded in cement that has cracked along the run, and lead torn at the fold where it was always going to go.
The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Colton 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.
The 1930s semis in Colton 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 housing in Colton 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.
In Colton that mostly means Meynell Road, Park Road and the closes off Colton Lane, and the streets running off 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.
Colton backs onto Whitkirk, Halton (LS15), Killingbeck, Cross Gates (LS15), roofers in Austhorpe and roofers in Osmondthorpe, and the price is for the work rather than the mileage anywhere in Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty minutes out.
Describe it as best you can and leave the rest to us. Surveys cost nothing, quotes go on paper, and the workmanship is guaranteed for ten years in LS15.