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Roofing in Lidget Green (BD7) from a firm working out of Bradford itself. Leaks traced back to where the water actually starts, stone slate re-fixed, stacks repointed in lime, gutters re-hung.
Victorian and Edwardian terraced streets on the Thornton Road side of the city, built for mill work and still largely as they were built. Lidget Green is the yard's own postcode, which means a look at the roof is normally only a day or two after the call. 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.
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 →Cast iron, aluminium and UPVC hung, re-falled, cleared and repaired, shared terrace runs and back-to-back gutters included.
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 →Mills, units, shops, schools and warehouses. Drone survey, written report, work phased round trading and stock.
What this covers →Lidget Green is Victorian and Edwardian terracing more or less as built, running off Legrams Lane and Cemetery Road on the Thornton Road side of the city. The stone came out of the ground within a couple of miles of where it was laid, and the roofs are heavy - Yorkshire stone slate on the earlier rows, Welsh slate on the later ones, on timbers that were sized for the load and have carried it for well over a hundred years. Rented property makes up a good share of the street, which in roofing terms means small faults get left longer than they should before anybody rings.
The commonest fault we find here is a stack that has been pointed in hard cement. Local sandstone is porous and moves a little with the weather; cement does not, so the moisture that used to leave through the joint leaves through the face of the stone instead and takes the surface with it in the first hard frost. You end up with a stack shedding grit into the gutter, a soft flaunching, and pots that rock. Alongside that, old lead soakers get replaced with mortar fillets that crack within two winters, and the valley between a house and its back addition silts up and overflows into the wall.
Access is straightforward on the through terraces because there is a back street, which makes scaffolding cheaper than on a back-to-back. It also means the rear elevations have been altered heavily - back additions, dormers, rooflights and flat roofs added over decades by different hands, each junction a place for water to get in. Nothing here is conservation area, so material choice is open, but we still match slate size and coursing along a row because a single bright new roof in the middle of forty dark ones looks wrong and does nothing for the value of the house.
We are only minutes away, so a survey in BD7 is easy to arrange and we are usually on that side of the city anyway. Free look at the roof, drone photographs where the pitch makes a foot survey awkward, written quote with the materials named, and an honest split between what needs doing now and what will keep. Lime repointing and stack rebuilds, lead soakers and back gutters, slate re-fixing, valleys, gutters and rear extension flat roofs. Landlords and agents can have a whole street surveyed in one visit. Insured, and the workmanship is guaranteed in writing for ten years.
Mill ranges and units in Lidget Green need one straight answer: patch it, overlay it, or strip it. We say which and show why, and we will work early mornings, evenings or weekends where that is what keeps the place running.
Cottages and older stone property in Lidget Green 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.
Big period property in Lidget Green, whether still one household or now cut into three flats, wants a proper scaffold and somebody comfortable on old slate. Like-for-like slating, stacks rebuilt where they have opened up, and the dormers and bay tops put right on the same visit.
The terraced rows in Lidget Green share a good deal more than a wall. The stack usually straddles the party line, and on the older streets the gutter runs the length of several houses, which is why a fault three doors down turns up in your back bedroom. We would rather see the whole run than one roof in isolation.
Around Legrams Lane, Cemetery Road and the terraces behind Lidget Green is the part of Lidget Green we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.
If that is roughly what is happening at your place, ring 0113 460 1042 or send the details over. Looking costs nothing and guessing works out dearer.
If you are right on the edge of Lidget Green, the neighbouring pages are Great Horton, roofers in Girlington, Clayton, roofers in Manningham, Allerton (BD15) and Little Horton (BD5) — and then every other area across the Bradford district and Leeds.
The Bradford district, worked from Bradford — on the doorstep.
Phone or put the form in, whichever is easier. Free survey, written quote and a ten-year guarantee, the same across the whole of BD7.