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Quote on paper Insured £5m 10-year guarantee Drone surveys
Homeowners, landlords and agents in Manston 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.
Inter-war Leeds at its most typical, long avenues of bay-fronted semis running off the Cross Gates side towards the park. Manston 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. If your house is anywhere near Manston Lane, Manston Drive and the avenues round Manston Park, 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.
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 →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 →Manston is inter-war Leeds doing exactly what inter-war Leeds does. Long avenues of bay-fronted semis run off Manston Lane, Manston Drive and Manston Avenue towards the park, built in the twenties and thirties in brick with hipped or gabled roofs, deep eaves and a small roof over every bay. Most were laid in plain clay or early concrete tile. Between them and the Cross Gates shops there is post-war infill, and towards the Thorpe Park side there is newer commercial and residential development on ground that used to be factory land. The domestic stock is remarkably consistent, which means the faults are consistent too.
Roofs of this age are at the point where the covering itself is the problem rather than any one slipped tile. Early concrete tiles have lost their surface, gone porous and put on weight, and on the shaded pitches they carry moss that holds water against the laps. Nibs snap, tiles slide, and each one that goes loads the course below. Mortar-bedded hips crack the full length and start to rock, and the mortar verge at the gable breaks away in sections. The bay roofs are a specific weak point: often lead or felt, frequently the original, and almost always the last part of the house anyone thinks to look at.
Manston is not especially exposed, sitting on the fairly level ground east of the city, but the avenues are lined with mature trees and that is where the maintenance goes. Gutters block, water runs behind the fascia, and the timber eaves on houses of this age rot from the back forwards. Because the semis are paired, a roof problem on one half quickly becomes one on both, particularly at the shared stack and along the shared gutter line. Where one neighbour has re-roofed and the other has not, the join between old and new work is worth a close look.
We come over from Bradford on the A647, round the inner ring road and out on York Road into LS15, which is an easy enough journey to do regularly. With semis we are happy to survey both halves and give each owner their own written quote, because it is usually cheaper and tidier for the pair to go up at once behind one scaffold. Free survey, photographs with the quote, £5m public liability insurance, a ten-year written workmanship guarantee and fascia and soffit work done off the same lift. Ring 0113 460 1042 or send the form over.
The modern estates around Manston 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.
The 1930s semis in Manston 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.
Post-war housing in Manston is largely concrete tile gone porous, brittle felt at the eaves and fascia boards quietly rotting behind the gutter. Re-covers are normal at this age, and ours go on with breathable membrane, dry verges and ventilation that actually does something.
The larger detached houses in Manston have busy roofs: several hips, long valleys, dormers, and whatever has been added on over thirty years. The work has to be neat and the materials have to match, and the drive and the borders get looked after while we are on site.
The ground we cover in Manston is Manston Lane, Manston Drive and the avenues round Manston Park, and the closes, folds and ginnels off it as well.
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.
Manston backs onto Austhorpe (LS15), roofers in Cross Gates, roofers in Swarcliffe, Barwick-in-Elmet, Killingbeck and Whitkirk, and the price is for the work rather than the mileage anywhere in Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty minutes out.
Ring and describe what you can see from the ground. We survey for nothing, quote on paper, and guarantee the workmanship for ten years anywhere in LS15.