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Homeowners, landlords and agents in Cottingley ring us for anything from one crept slate to a full strip and re-cover. Insured, guaranteed in writing, and nobody trying to sell you a roof you do not need.
Two twenty-five storey towers on a hilltop with low-rise estate housing and the Huddersfield line underneath them, near enough Elland Road to hear a full house. Cottingley 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. Most calls from Cottingley 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.
Leaks followed back to where the water actually gets in, slates re-fixed, lead re-dressed. One visit, one written figure, ten years behind it.
What this covers →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 →Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.
What this covers →There is a Cottingley on our side of the county too, up by Bingley, so it is worth saying plainly that this one is the Leeds Cottingley in LS11, on the hill above Elland Road. The two twenty-five storey towers on top of it are the landmark, and around and below them sit low-rise estate housing, maisonettes and short terraces on concrete tile, with the railway line and the station at the bottom. The mix of high-rise, low-rise and social housing means flat roofing and communal work makes up more of the job list here than it does in most Leeds suburbs.
On the low-rise blocks and maisonettes the failures are nearly always at the edges of a flat or shallow roof rather than in the middle of it. Upstands pull away at the corners, laps open up on old felt, outlets silt up until the water sits and finds the weakest seam, and parapet and trim details corrode. On the pitched estate housing it is the usual list for the age: porous concrete tiles, cracked ridge bedding, perished eaves felt and soft fascia boards behind the gutter. Communal gutters running behind several front doors get blamed for leaks that are actually coming in over the top of a blocked outlet.
This is a hilltop site and it is properly exposed. There is nothing between the top of Cottingley and the open ground to the west, so wind gets at every edge, and the taller buildings shed and funnel it in ways that catch out roofs stood behind them. Anything with a housing office, a landlord or a management company behind it needs the work written down before it gets authorised, which is fair enough but means a verbal opinion is no use to anybody. Access for scaffold and tower needs planning round parking, bin stores and the shared paths between blocks.
It is a quick run down from Bradford, M606 to the M62 and onto the M621, off near Elland Road and up the hill. For landlords, agents and residents groups we fly the roof, photograph every outlet and seam and put a written report together that somebody can actually take to a meeting. Homeowners get the same survey without the paperwork if they do not need it. Free survey and written quote, £5m public liability insurance, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.
Inter-war housing around Cottingley 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 1950s and 1960s houses in Cottingley 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.
The modern estates around Cottingley 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.
Blocks around Cottingley 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.
In Cottingley that mostly means Cottingley Drive, the towers on the hill and the streets down to the station, 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.
Cottingley backs onto Churwell, Farnley, Wortley, Armley, roofers in Beeston and roofers in Beeston Hill, and the price is for the work rather than the mileage anywhere in Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a short run out.
One call and somebody comes out and looks at it properly. Free survey, written quote, and work guaranteed in writing throughout LS11.