Roofers Haworth

Haworth roofing, the short version

A moorland village of blackened gritstone with a setted street running straight up the hill and listed property most of the way along it. Haworth 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 Main Street, Church Street and West 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 Haworth roofs

Roofers in Haworth: roofing and roof repairs across BD22

Haworth is the most constrained roofing job in the district, and it pays to know that before you start. The village core is a conservation area with a great deal of listed property along Main Street, Church Street, West Lane and Changegate, and the setted street itself is part of what is protected. That means the covering that comes off has to be the covering that goes back on: graded Yorkshire stone slate laid in diminishing courses, with matched reclaimed material where slates are beyond saving. It also means consent may be needed, and that a cheap substitute here is not simply a poor idea, it is refused.

The other constraint is what the slate is sitting on. A lot of these roofs still have their original timbers, sized generations ago for that weight and since weakened by woodworm, rot at the wall plate and old alterations. Before we quote a strip and re-lay we want the rafter and purlin sizes, the condition at the bearings and any sign of spread in the walls, because putting a hundred kilos a square metre back onto tired timber is not a repair. Where timbers need sistering or replacing, that gets priced up front rather than discovered halfway through the job.

Then the weather, which up here is genuinely severe. Haworth stands on the edge of the moor with Penistone Hill above it and nothing west of that for a long way, so driven rain arrives horizontally and gets through joints that would be perfectly adequate anywhere else. Stone stacks are tall and soot blackened, and the pointing on the weather face goes first. Access on Main Street is its own problem, since the gradient, the setts, the pedestrian traffic and the delivery restrictions all have to be arranged rather than assumed, and in the visitor season that takes some planning.

We do conservation and stone slate work across the Worth valley and we handle the consent side rather than leaving it with you. Survey free, photographed from the air so nobody walks a fragile stone roof to prove a point, and a written quote naming the reclaimed slate, the lead code and the lime mortar. Stone slate stripping and re-laying, timber repairs, stack rebuilds and lime repointing, lead valleys, soakers and back gutters, gutters and downpipes. Five million pounds of public liability cover, and a written ten-year guarantee standing behind the workmanship. Ring us on 0113 460 1042 or put your details in the enquiry form.

Haworth houses and the roofs they carry

Listed and conservation-area property

Listed buildings and conservation streets in Haworth 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.

Older stone property

Cottages and older stone property in Haworth were built to take weather off the tops and largely still do. When they want work it is re-fixing on new battens, sorting a valley out, or re-bedding a ridge, always in materials that match what came off.

Victorian and Edwardian villas

The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Haworth 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.

Between-the-wars housing

The 1930s semis in Haworth 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.

Around Main Street, Church Street and West Lane is the part of Haworth we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.

What we are called out to most in BD22

• Reclaimed slate matched for size, thickness and coursing
• Repairs kept inside conservation and listed building rules
• Gritstone slate split and crept after frost
• Gable copings and stacks wanting lime repointing
• Lead valleys and flashings behind tall stacks
• Nail sickness finally letting go on Victorian slate

Sounds familiar? Ring 0113 460 1042 or ask for a survey. What you get back is a straight answer and a written price, not a sales visit.

Why Haworth property owners use Bradford Roofing

• 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.
• Materials matched to Haworth 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 Haworth it is the same number to ring. We make it safe first, photograph it for the insurer, then come back and repair it properly.
• Finance on the larger jobs — Re-roofs and chimney rebuilds can be spread on qualifying work. Ask when the written quote lands and we will set out what is available.
• 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 Haworth

Haworth backs onto Cross Roads (BD22), Oxenhope (BD22), Oakworth, Stanbury (BD22), Ingrow and Keighley (BD21), and the price is for the work rather than the mileage anywhere in the Bradford district and Leeds.