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Looking for a roofer in Harehills? We come out from Bradford, look at the whole roof rather than the wet patch, photograph it, and put a written price in your hands before anything is touched.
Leeds at its densest, brick back-to-backs and through terraces in tight grids off two busy main roads, roof runs going the full length of the street. Harehills 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 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 →Harehills is about as tightly built as Leeds gets, and its roofs are one continuous job rather than a set of separate ones. Grids of red brick back-to-backs and through terraces run off Harehills Lane, Harehills Road and Roundhay Road, mostly under Welsh slate, with shared stacks on the party walls and long unbroken runs of ridge and gutter. There are larger Victorian houses on the Chapeltown side, shops with flats above on the main roads, and pockets of newer social housing. A lot of the stock is let, so roofers in Harehills are as often talking to landlords and agents as to owners.
On a terrace, one slipped slate is everyone's problem eventually. Nails corrode and courses creep along the row, and because the roofs are continuous the water tracks along the batten and comes out in a different house from the one with the fault. Party-wall stacks shared between two properties get repointed on one side and left on the other, so the flashing keeps failing. Old cast iron guttering running the full length of a row rusts through at the joints and puts water straight down the brickwork, and back-to-back yards make shared gutters and hoppers a recurring source of arguments and leaks.
Density makes access the biggest single factor in any job here. Narrow streets, permit parking, back entries too tight for a wagon and shared yards all mean scaffolding has to be planned and sometimes licensed, and stripping a slate roof needs a proper chute and a skip that can actually be sited. Neighbour agreement matters too, because a stack or a valley on a party wall belongs to two houses. Wind is less of an issue than in the open suburbs, since the terraces shelter each other, but the ends of rows and anything overlooking a gap take it full on.
We know this kind of housing well because Bradford is full of it, and we come in on the A647 and out on Roundhay Road, which is no distance at all. We are used to terrace work: dealing with the neighbour, getting the scaffold up without blocking the street, and being clear about which house owns which half of a stack. Landlords and agents get a written report with photographs. Free survey and written quote, £5m public liability insurance, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee, emergency callouts seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.
Through terraces and back-to-backs in Harehills are simple shapes with awkward details: back gutters tucked behind the stacks, parapet and valley runs sitting full of water, and slates hanging on nails that gave up a long time ago. We fix whatever is letting the water in rather than chase the stain across the ceiling.
Landlords with property in Harehills want a fixed written price and no argument about access, and both are easy enough to give. Most of the work on lets is guttering, flashing and re-fixing slates, with a strip and re-cover booked in between tenancies.
The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Harehills 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.
Stone houses around Harehills 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.
In Harehills that mostly means Harehills Lane, Roundhay Road and the terraced grids off Harehills Road, and the streets running off them.
Most of that list starts cheap and turns expensive. Ring 0113 460 1042 or book the survey while it is still the cheap version.
Nearest to Harehills on our list are roofers in Gipton, Burmantofts, Lincoln Green, roofers in Osmondthorpe, Richmond Hill (LS9) and roofers in Quarry Hill. The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of Leeds and the Bradford district included.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty minutes 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 LS8.