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Roofers for Roundhay, run out of Bradford. We tell you whether the roof wants a repair or replacing, and we show you the photographs the answer came from.
Wide Edwardian avenues and tall Victorian villas laid out around the park, with mansion conversions and later detached houses filling in behind them. Roundhay 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 Street Lane, Old Park Road and the avenues running off Princes Avenue, 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 →Roundhay was built to be looked at. The avenues around the park carry tall Victorian and Edwardian villas with steep slated pitches, decorative ridge, turrets, dormers and stacks with four or five flues in them, and a good number of the largest houses are now split into apartments. Behind and beyond that sit substantial inter-war detached houses, later family housing towards Oakwood and the Gledhow side, and the shop parades with flat roofs and long gutter runs over the back. These roofs are large, high and visible from the street, so the quality of the finish counts for as much as the watertightness.
Leadwork is where most of the money goes on houses like these. Valleys between wings, secret gutters behind parapets, bay tops, dormer cheeks and the back gutters behind those big stacks were often undersized to begin with and have since fatigued and split along the folds. Cast iron gutters and hoppers, where they survive, rust from the inside at the joints and start weeping down the stonework. Where somebody has repaired with mastic or flashing tape it will be lifting at the edges within two seasons. None of that is a covering problem, which is why a price worked out by counting slates misses it.
The park and the old gardens mean heavy mature tree cover, so valleys fill with leaf, shaded slopes stay green and branches scuff slates in a gale. The houses stand in their own grounds, which sounds straightforward and often is not, because scaffold has to come round the back through a garden and the roofs are high enough that nothing sensible happens off a ladder. On the converted blocks the roof is common parts, so the decision belongs to a management company or a freeholder, and they need a written report with photographs before they can put anything to the leaseholders.
From Bradford we take the A658 across and pick up the outer ring road round the top of the city, or come in on the A647 and out through Meanwood, depending on the hour of the day. It is a proper drive, so we survey thoroughly in one visit rather than making repeat trips. Drone footage is included where a roof is too high or too cut up to walk safely, and the written report is set out to suit an insurer or a managing agent as well as a homeowner. Free survey, insured, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, emergency callouts seven days a week.
The modern estates around Roundhay 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.
Blocks around Roundhay run from single-ply on the newer schemes to felt and the odd mansard on the older conversions. Getting up there safely is most of the planning, so access is settled first and everything else follows from it.
Listed buildings and conservation streets in Roundhay come with rules attached, and those rules exist for a reason. Matched stone slate or Welsh slate, lime rather than cement, lead dressed the way it was meant to be, and a straight word from us about whether consent is needed before anything is priced.
Big period property in Roundhay, 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.
Around Street Lane, Old Park Road and the avenues running off Princes Avenue is the part of Roundhay 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.
If you are right on the edge of Roundhay, the neighbouring pages are roofers in Oakwood, roofers in Gledhow, Moortown, roofers in Moor Allerton, Chapeltown and Shadwell (LS17) — and then every other area across Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — about twenty minutes 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 LS8.