Bradford district · callouts 7 days0113 460 1042
Quote on paper Insured £5m 10-year guarantee Drone surveys
Bradford-based roofers working Morley and the rest of LS27. Repairs, re-roofs, stone slate, flat roofs, chimneys and guttering, surveyed free and quoted on paper.
A stone town on its own hill, gritstone terraces and chapels on the tops and later housing filling the ground below. Morley 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 Queen Street, Fountain Street and the terraces above Morley Bottoms, 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.
Leaks followed back to where the water actually gets in, slates re-fixed, lead re-dressed. One visit, one written figure, ten years behind it.
What this covers →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 →Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.
What this covers →Morley is built of the same coarse gritstone as most of Bradford, quarried out of the same beds, and it behaves the same way on a roof. Up on the tops round Queen Street and Fountain Street there are stone terraces, chapels and former mill buildings, some still carrying heavy stone slate, plenty re-covered in Welsh slate. Down towards Churwell and out past Scatcherd Park and Dartmouth Park the stock shifts to inter-war semis, post-war estate housing and newer development on concrete tile. For a roofer it is a town of two halves, and the older half needs a merchant who can still supply matching stone.
Heavy stone slate is the most demanding covering in the district. It splits along the bedding plane after enough frost cycles, the oak pegs and old nails holding it fail long before the stone does, and the roof structure underneath has been carrying serious weight for a century or more, so spread rafters and dipped ridges are common findings. Stone verges that have been repaired in cement are shedding, and stacks pointed hard are losing their faces. Get this wrong and you end up with a roof that looks fixed and is quietly moving. We would rather take the covering off, sort the timbers and re-lay the stone than pretend a patch will hold.
The hill is the other half of the story. Morley stands high with the ground falling away on more than one side, so the top streets get weather that the ones down the bank never see. West-facing gables and exposed ridge runs take the worst of it, and ridge tiles on a long terrace are the thing most likely to move in a gale. Rain driven horizontally against soot-black stone finds any joint that is open. On the lower estates the pattern is more ordinary: porous concrete tile, cracked hips, slipped tiles and verges lifting.
From Bradford it is the M606 to the M62 and off at the Morley junction, or across the tops on the Gildersome side, so we are over there often. Working on Bradford stone day in, day out means we source reclaimed stone slate that actually matches coursing and colour rather than whatever is on the yard. Free survey, drone footage where the ridge and the valleys need seeing, and an itemised written quote with photographs. Stone slate and tiling matched to the street, insured to £5m, ten-year written workmanship guarantee behind the work, and callouts seven days a week when a storm takes a roof. Ring 0113 460 1042.
The terraced rows in Morley 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.
The 1930s semis in Morley 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 Morley 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 Morley 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 Morley addresses we end up at most often are around Queen Street, Fountain Street and the terraces above Morley Bottoms, plus everything tucked in behind them.
Most of that list starts cheap and turns expensive. Ring 0113 460 1042 or book the survey while it is still the cheap version.
Same van, same week: Tingley (WF3), Gildersome, Churwell (LS27), Cottingley (LS11), roofers in Farnley and roofers in East Ardsley. The full list runs the length of Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a short run out.
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 LS27.