Bradford district · callouts 7 days0113 460 1042
Quote on paper Insured £5m 10-year guarantee Drone surveys
Bradford-based roofers working Thorp Arch and the rest of LS23. Repairs, re-roofs, stone slate, flat roofs, chimneys and guttering, surveyed free and quoted on paper.
A limestone village on the north bank of the Wharfe, with a trading estate and a national document store hidden in the woods behind it. Thorp Arch 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. The same short list of faults keeps coming back on Thorp Arch roofs, and the useful part of a survey is knowing which of them is a morning's work and which means the covering has finally had its day.
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 →Thorp Arch is two places in one. The village is limestone and quiet, set on the north bank of the Wharfe with All Saints church at its heart, a green, lanes running down to the bridge across to Boston Spa, and cottages roofed in pantile and stone slate with modern infill among them. A short distance away, hidden in the woods, sits the trading estate built on the old ordnance factory, with the national document store, the prison and dozens of commercial units on it. Those are large flat and shallow-pitch roofs and an entirely different kind of work.
In the village the job is heritage repair. Limestone is softer than gritstone and it does not forgive hard cement, so a stack pointed with the wrong mix spalls at the faces and carries damp into the flue. Pantiles slip on broken nibs, the old torching has generally gone, and where lead at an abutment has been swapped for flashing tape it will already be lifting. Several properties are listed or sit within the conservation area, which means matching materials, lime mortar and consent for anything that changes the appearance, plus reclaimed tile sourced in the right colour rather than the nearest thing going.
On the estate the failures are industrial. Profiled sheet roofs lose their coating and corrode at the fixings and the laps, rooflights go brittle and yellow until they crack under a foot, and the long valley gutters between bays silt up and back water into the building. Everything there is occupied and working, so roofing has to be phased around operations, with safe access agreed in advance and nothing left open overnight. For those buildings we produce a drone survey and a written condition report first, so whoever holds the budget can see what needs doing now and what will keep another year.
This is the far corner of our patch. From Bradford we go across on the A658 to the A61 at Harewood and then along the A659, or up the A1(M) when we are coming from further north, and either way it is a planned trip rather than a casual one. We block-book the Wharfe villages so the journey is worth making and you get a firm appointment out of it. Free survey, written quote with the materials named, no obligation. Insured, ten-year written workmanship guarantee, and emergency callouts seven days a week for anything live. Ring 0113 460 1042.
Newer houses in Thorp Arch 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.
On protected property in Thorp Arch 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.
Cottages and older stone property in Thorp Arch were built to take weather off the tops and largely still do. When they want work it is re-fixing on new battens, sorting a valley out, or re-bedding a ridge, always in materials that match what came off.
The larger Victorian and Edwardian houses in Thorp Arch 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 Thorp Arch addresses we end up at most often are around the village green, Walton Road and the lanes down to the Wharfe bridge, 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.
Thorp Arch backs onto Boston Spa, Clifford, Bramham, roofers in Wetherby, roofers in Ainsty and Linton (LS22), and the price is for the work rather than the mileage anywhere in Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — further out, but well inside the round.
Phone or put the form in, whichever is easier. Free survey, written quote and a ten-year guarantee, the same across the whole of LS23.