Roofers Cookridge

Cookridge roofing, the short version

High, wooded and built in waves, with the 1920s water tower stood on one of the highest points in Leeds and estates pushing out into the trees around it. Cookridge 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 Cookridge Lane, Green Lane and the roads through Moseley Wood, 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 Cookridge roofs

Roofers in Cookridge: roofing and roof repairs across LS16

Cookridge went up in stages and you can read every one of them off the roofs. The original triangle of houses between Cookridge Lane, Moseley Wood Lane and Green Lane dates from the 1920s, and behind it came estate after estate through the post-war decades, pushing steadily into the woodland. Coverings run from clay and Welsh slate on the older and larger property, through heavy concrete interlockings on the 1950s and 60s estates, to lighter modern tile and fibre cement on the housing built on the old Cookridge Hospital site. Enquiries to roofers in Cookridge come from all of those, and they do not want the same answer.

The post-war concrete tile is the bread and butter. Fifty or sixty years of Yorkshire weather takes the surface off, the tile drinks water, moss roots in it and the north pitch never properly dries. Ridges bedded in cement have cracked and the ridge tiles rock when you put a hand on them. Eaves felt has perished. On the older 1920s property the list is slipped slate, tired lead at the abutments and stacks that need repointing and re-flaunching. Newer houses on the hospital site are too young for covering failure but old enough for the dry-fix components and the flat roofs over bays and porches to start showing their weaknesses.

Height and trees are the two local facts that matter. The water tower stands on one of the highest points in Leeds, and the streets up near it are genuinely exposed, so ridge, verge and hip take more wind than a suburb has any right to. At the same time the estates were cut into woodland and a lot of the trees were left, so valleys and gutters fill with leaf and needle every autumn and slopes under a canopy stay wet. That combination, exposed at the top and shaded underneath, is why two houses on the same street can need completely different work.

From Bradford it is the A658 out through Apperley Bridge and Rawdon, then across at Horsforth and into LS16, which is one of our shorter runs into Leeds. On a big cut-up roof under trees we will fly the drone rather than guess at what the valleys are doing, and you get the photographs with an itemised written quote. Survey costs nothing and there is no sales visit attached to it. £5m public liability insurance, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee, and emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.

Cookridge houses and the roofs they carry

Large detached houses

Detached property in Cookridge from the 1960s onwards is coming round for full re-roofs now. In the meantime it is extension flat roofs and conservatory junctions that were never flashed properly in the first place.

Modern estate housing

The modern estates around Cookridge 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.

Protected stone and conservation streets

Listed buildings and conservation streets in Cookridge come with rules attached, and those rules exist for a reason. Matched stone slate or Welsh slate, lime rather than cement, lead dressed the way it was meant to be, and a straight word from us about whether consent is needed before anything is priced.

Big period houses, many of them now flats

Big period property in Cookridge, 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.

In Cookridge that mostly means Cookridge Lane, Green Lane and the roads through Moseley Wood, and the streets running off them.

What we are called out to most in LS16

• Extension and conservatory abutments flashed badly from new
• Dry verges and ridge fixings shaken loose
• Builder snagging nobody ever came back to finish
• Reclaimed slate matched for size, thickness and coursing
• Repairs kept inside conservation and listed building rules
• Multi-hip roofs with long, awkward valleys

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.

Why Cookridge property owners use Bradford Roofing

• Bradford firm, Cookridge on the round — The yard is in Bradford, not a call centre in another county. Whoever climbs up to survey the roof in Cookridge 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.
• Materials matched to Cookridge 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 Cookridge it is the same number to ring. We make it safe first, photograph it for the insurer, then come back and repair it properly.
• Access settled before the price — Narrow back streets, shared ginnels, hillside plots and working yards. How the scaffold goes up is worked out at the survey, not argued about on the first morning.

Around Cookridge

Nearest to Cookridge on our list are Ireland Wood (LS16), Tinshill (LS16), roofers in Lawnswood, roofers in Holt Park, roofers in Far Headingley and Adel. The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of Leeds and the Bradford district included.