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Looking for a roofer in Micklefield? 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.
Open limestone country on the old Great North Road, quarry and colliery village with big skies and nothing to break the wind. Micklefield sits towards the far edge of the round, but the van is in Leeds every week and the quote is for the work, not the mileage. Most calls from Micklefield start with a stain spreading on a ceiling or a slate lying in the yard. The next step is a free look at the whole roof, with the drone up wherever the pitch is too steep or too high to read from the ground.
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 →Micklefield is two villages that grew into one. The older settlement round Church Lane is limestone, quarried more or less where it stands, with cottages and farm buildings under stone slate and pantile. New Micklefield, down towards the railway, is the pit village: long rows of brick terraces put up for Peckfield colliery, mostly re-covered in concrete tile at some point in the last fifty years. Along the Great North Road there is a string of older frontage property, and around the edges there are modern estates on interlocking tile. It is a small place with an unusually wide spread of roof types.
Wind is the first thing to understand about working here. The village sits on open limestone country with arable fields running away on every side and the A1 corridor beyond, and there is nothing at all to break a westerly. Verge courses, ridge tiles and anything that relies on mortar rather than a mechanical fixing will be the first to move, and on the terraced rows the end house always takes it worst. After a named storm the calls from LS25 are usually the same: a strip of ridge lifted, dry verge caps gone, or a sheet off a garage or an outbuilding.
The building stock adds its own faults on top of that. Magnesian limestone is soft and absorbent, so hard cement pointing on a stack or a verge destroys the stone face around it rather than protecting it. On the ex-colliery terraces the concrete tiles laid in the seventies and eighties are now porous and mossy, with cracked mortar hips and slipped tiles where nibs have snapped. Shared stacks along a row need the whole row considered, not one house. On the modern estates it is dry verge and ridge fixings that were never tightened properly, which the wind finds soon enough.
From Bradford we go M606, M62 east, then off towards Garforth and out along the A63 and A656 into the village, an easy road journey. Because exposure does so much of the damage here, we fix mechanically where mortar would only fail again, and we will point out the details on your roof that the next gale will find. The survey and the written quote cost you nothing and come with photographs. £5m public liability insurance, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, and storm and emergency work seven days a week. Ring 0113 460 1042.
Inter-war housing around Micklefield usually means hipped roofs in clay or early concrete tile over felt that was never expected to last ninety years. Hip irons, ridges and the eaves are where it shows first, and they are worth looking at before a winter rather than after one.
The 1950s and 1960s houses in Micklefield have plain gabled or hipped roofs, which keeps a re-cover sensible on price. Fascia, soffit and gutter replacement on these streets is a steady part of most weeks.
The larger detached houses in Micklefield 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.
Newer houses in Micklefield get roof problems too, just different ones: dry-verge caps lifting, ridges that were never bedded properly, and snagging the builder walked away from. We put the details right and pick it up from where the warranty ran out.
The ground we cover in Micklefield is Great North Road, Church Lane and the terraces of New Micklefield, and the closes, folds and ginnels off it as well.
Spotted one of those from the ground? Put the details in or ring 0113 460 1042 and we will get the drone up and show you what is really going on up there.
Working out of Bradford puts Micklefield on the same round as Kippax, roofers in Garforth, roofers in Aberford, Allerton Bywater (WF10), Swillington (LS26) and Scholes (LS15), along with everywhere else across Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — further out, but well inside the round.
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 LS25.