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Homeowners, landlords and agents in Far Headingley 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.
The quieter, greener end of the Otley Road, large stone villas and inter-war semis set back behind walls and gateposts around St Chad's. Far Headingley 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. The stock changes street by street here, but the method does not: get up on it or fly it, find where the water is really getting in, explain it in plain words, then put the price in writing.
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 →Far Headingley is the sedate end of the Otley Road, past the shops and the noise, where the plots get wider and the walls get higher. The stock is large Victorian and Edwardian stone villas around St Chad's and Shaw Lane, substantial inter-war semis and detached houses on the roads off Weetwood Lane, and a smaller number of later builds and conversions. Coverings are mostly Welsh slate and clay tile on the older houses, concrete interlockings on the thirties stock. The roofs are big, steep and cut about with gables, dormers, turrets and long valleys, so Far Headingley roofing tends to mean careful detail work rather than a quick strip and re-cover.
Steep slate roofs like these usually fail quietly and from the back. Nails corrode and slates creep on the rear pitch for years before anyone notices, because the front is the only elevation people ever look at. Lead work is the other constant: box gutters behind parapets, secret gutters between gables, and valleys that were originally generous and have been narrowed by later re-slating until they overflow in heavy rain. Tall stone stacks with multiple flues want repointing and a fresh flaunching, and the gutter tucked in behind the stack is a classic leak that gets pinned on the chimney. Bay roofs and porch flats are common weak points on the inter-war houses.
Mature trees are everywhere here, which is half the charm and most of the maintenance. Leaf falls into valleys and hoppers every autumn, north slopes under a canopy stay damp and grow moss, and the odd branch scuffs the slate in a gale. Parts of the area lie within conservation area boundaries, so anything visible from the street wants to be matched in like materials, natural slate for natural slate and cast iron kept where it exists. Large houses converted into flats bring a freeholder or an agent into the conversation, and those decisions get made off a written report rather than a chat on the pavement.
From Bradford it is the A65 out past Rawdon and over Horsforth, then across onto the top of the A660, so LS16 is a comfortable run for us. On a steep multi-valley slate roof nobody should be walking it for a look, so we fly it and give you close photographs of every valley, gutter and stack with the written quote. The survey is free and there is no sales pitch attached. £5m public liability insurance, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee, and emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.
The 1930s semis in Far Headingley 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.
Detached property in Far Headingley 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.
The modern estates around Far Headingley 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.
On protected property in Far Headingley 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 Otley Road, Shaw Lane and the roads off Weetwood Lane is the part of Far Headingley we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.
Any of that familiar? Ring 0113 460 1042 or book the free survey and somebody will come and look at it properly.
Nearest to Far Headingley on our list are roofers in Lawnswood, Weetwood, Beckett Park, Meanwood, Ireland Wood (LS16) and Cookridge. The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of Leeds and the Bradford district included.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a short run out.
Phone or put the form in, whichever is easier. Free survey, written quote and a ten-year guarantee, the same across the whole of LS16.