Roofers Eccleshill

Eccleshill roofing, the short version

A village on a ridge that kept its stone core, its weavers' cottages and its walled lanes while estates went up all round it. Eccleshill is barely out of the city centre, so surveys and small jobs there get slotted in around bigger work on the same side of Bradford. If your house is anywhere near Stony Lane, Stone Hall Road and Tunwell Lane, 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 Eccleshill roofs

Roofers in Eccleshill: roofing and roof repairs across BD2

Eccleshill was a village on a ridge long before Bradford reached it, in Domesday as Egleshil and a wool township by the seventeenth century. The conservation area follows the old linear pattern along Stony Lane, Stone Hall Road and Moorside Road, with Tunwell Lane still unsurfaced between its stone walls. What is in it is worth knowing about before anyone quotes: vernacular cottages with two-light mullioned windows and stone slate roofs, three-storey weavers' houses such as Moorwell Place, coursed sandstone terraces built for the mill workforce, and mill blocks of four storeys. Around that core are inter-war and post-war estates on tile.

The appraisal is blunt about what spoils the place, and concrete tile put on in place of stone slate or Welsh slate is top of the list. That is worth taking seriously, because a cheap re-cover here can be hard to undo and does the street no favours. On the old roofs the stone itself is almost always still good; the failure is in the pegs and nails, so the proper job is a strip, a sort, fresh treated battens and a re-hang, with reclaimed slate of matching thickness making up the gap. Decorative stone corbels carrying the gutters need looking at while the scaffold is there.

The ridge position brings long views east towards Ravenscliffe Wood and Woodhall Hills, and with the views comes the weather. Elevations facing north and east take driven rain with nothing in the way, and the stone gable copings and verges are where it gets in. Chimney stacks up here are tall and exposed and want lime pointing rather than cement. On the surrounding estates the work is the standard modern round - porous concrete tile, cracked mortar ridges, brittle felt - and those are simple, well-priced re-roofs with dry-fixed edges.

We work Eccleshill regularly and we are comfortable in both the old village and the estates around it. Free survey and a written quote that says exactly what is going back on, with a clear word about consent if a property is listed or the work will be visible in the conservation area. Stone slate stripping and re-hanging, lime repointing, stack rebuilds, lead valleys and abutments, tile re-covers with breathable membrane, plus gutters, fascias and flat roofs. Insured, and the workmanship carries a ten-year written guarantee. Phone 0113 460 1042 or fill the form in and we will call you back.

Eccleshill houses and the roofs they carry

1930s semis and their hipped roofs

The 1930s semis in Eccleshill 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.

1950s and 1960s estate housing

The 1950s and 1960s houses in Eccleshill 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.

Newer builds and dry-fix roofs

The modern estates around Eccleshill 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.

Listed and conservation-area property

On protected property in Eccleshill we repair before we replace. Every sound slate goes back on, the shortfall is made up in reclaimed stock of the same size and thickness, and the lead is dressed properly instead of being buried in mastic.

Around Stony Lane, Stone Hall Road and Tunwell Lane is the part of Eccleshill we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.

What we are called out to most in BD2

• Dry verges and ridge fixings shaken loose
• Builder snagging nobody ever came back to finish
• 1930s coverings reaching the end all at once
• Cement-bedded ridges cracked the length of the run
• Concrete tiles gone porous and holding damp
• Felt turned brittle and split along the eaves

Any of that familiar? Ring 0113 460 1042 or book the free survey and somebody will come and look at it properly.

Why Eccleshill property owners use Bradford Roofing

• 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.
• Storm work, seven days a week — When the wind strips a run of slates in Eccleshill 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 Eccleshill

Working out of Bradford puts Eccleshill on the same round as Idle (BD10), roofers in Bolton, Greengates, roofers in Thackley, Wrose (BD18) and roofers in Undercliffe, along with everywhere else across the Bradford district and Leeds.