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Pitched and flat roofing across Manningham and the wider BD8. The survey costs nothing, the quote is itemised on paper, and the workmanship carries a ten-year written guarantee.
Two Bradfords on one hillside: wool merchants' villas and park frontages along the top, tight terraces and back-to-backs dropping away below them. Manningham is the yard's own postcode, which means a look at the roof is normally only a day or two after the call. If your house is anywhere near Lister Park, Oak Lane and the streets off Manningham 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.
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 →Manningham has two roofscapes on one hillside. Along the top, around Lister Park and the streets Bradford protected as the Apsley Crescent, Eldon Place, North Park Road, St Paul's and Southfield Square conservation areas, there are wool merchants' villas and terraces of real quality - deep Welsh slate pitches, tall multi-flue stacks, long lead valleys and parapets. Below that, behind Manningham Lane, Lumb Lane and Oak Lane, run dense back-to-backs and through terraces built for the mill workforce. Lister Mills stands at the top of Oak Lane with its Italianate chimney over the lot of it, converted to flats and visible from half the city.
On the villas the recurring jobs are lead and chimney work rather than slate. A thirty-foot lead valley laid in one continuous length cannot move with the temperature, so it splits along the line of the roll, and that split is nearly always the source of a leak somebody has been blaming on the stack. Multi-flue stacks want repointing in lime and a fresh flaunching, and on the taller ones the back gutter behind the stack is the weak point. The Welsh slate is often still perfectly good; it is the nails that have gone, so a well-done repair means reclaimed slate of matching size and thickness, not modern fibre cement.
Down the hill the problems are the ordinary ones of dense terracing done at scale: shared eaves gutters overflowing across several houses, party-wall stacks with open joints, and stone slate creeping on failed pegs. Conversions add another layer. A lot of the bigger houses are now flats or houses in multiple occupation, which means a management arrangement or a landlord in the middle of the decision and a need for a written report with photographs before anyone signs anything off. Where a property is in one of the conservation areas, visible work has to match, and concrete tile instead of slate is exactly the change the appraisals complain about.
BD8 is on our doorstep and we are on these streets most weeks. The survey is free and comes with photographs, including the parts of a tall villa roof that nobody has looked at since the last re-roof. We give a written quote with the materials specified, so you know whether you are getting reclaimed slate or something cheaper, and we will deal with agents, freeholders or a landlord's office directly if that is easier. Slate re-fixing and re-covering, lead valleys and parapets, stack rebuilds and lime repointing, gutters and flat roofs. Insured, with a ten-year written guarantee on the work.
The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Manningham 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.
The terraced rows in Manningham 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.
Commercial roofs around Manningham are nearly all flat or shallow, and three faults cover most of it: felt blistered and split, fibreglass cracked along the trim, and a box gutter that has not been cleared since the building opened. We fly them, write the report up with the photographs, and phase the work round trading hours.
On protected property in Manningham 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 Lister Park, Oak Lane and the streets off Manningham Lane is the part of Manningham we know best, though the whole of it is on the round.
If the roof is doing any of that, book a free survey or ring 0113 460 1042. We will tell you what needs doing and, just as plainly, what does not.
Nearest to Manningham on our list are Heaton (BD9), roofers in Girlington, Bradford, Bradford City Centre, roofers in Lidget Green and Frizinghall. The rest of the patch sits on the area finder, all of the Bradford district and Leeds included.
Bradford, worked from Bradford — on the doorstep.
Describe it as best you can and leave the rest to us. Surveys cost nothing, quotes go on paper, and the workmanship is guaranteed for ten years in BD8.