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Looking for a roofer in Yeadon? 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.
A hill town above the Aire valley with its town hall, its tarn and the airport runway along the top edge of it. Yeadon 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. The same short list of faults keeps coming back on Yeadon 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.
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 →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 →Storm damage and live leaks made safe across Bradford, the Aire valley and the Worth valley, callouts seven days a week.
What this covers →Yeadon is about the shortest run we make into Leeds. Out of Bradford on the A658 through Apperley Bridge and Rawdon and you are on the High Street, which is why we are in LS19 constantly. The town is properly built: gritstone weavers' cottages and terraces round Ivegate and the High Street, mill housing from the Nunroyd and Westfield days, the town hall on the main street, Victorian and inter-war stock behind it, post-war and modern estates out towards the tarn and the airport, and a fair amount of commercial property along the top road.
The gritstone roofs are heavy and old and the fixings are the weak point. Once the pegs and nails go, slates creep and the courses open up, and because the covering weighs what it does, the timber underneath has often taken a set: dipped ridge lines, eaves that have spread, purlins that want looking at before anything else is decided. Stone stacks are soot-black and their pointing has gone on the weather face. Stone gutters on some of the older terraces are cracked and have been lined with felt at some point, which never holds for long.
Yeadon sits high above the Aire valley with the airfield along the top edge, and it is exposed in a way that shows on the roofs. Weather comes off the moors and over the valley with nothing to break it, so verge and ridge details go first and frost gets into anything porous over the winter. On the inter-war and post-war stock that means tiles which took on water in autumn splitting in a cold snap. Snow lies here longer than it does down in the valley, and a roof with blocked gutters and a tired covering will let you know about it when it thaws.
Being this close means we can survey quickly, come back and finish properly, and take a storm call without it being a trek. The survey is free and we get in the loft, because on a stone slate roof in Yeadon the condition of the timber and the batten ends decides everything else. You get photographs, a written quote itemised by section, and a straight recommendation rather than a sales pitch. Everything we fit carries a ten-year written workmanship guarantee, we are insured for public liability, and emergency callouts run seven days a week.
Inter-war housing around Yeadon 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.
Post-war housing in Yeadon 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.
Newer houses in Yeadon 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.
Listed buildings and conservation streets in Yeadon 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.
Around High Street, Ivegate and the streets round Yeadon Tarn is the part of Yeadon 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 Yeadon, the neighbouring pages are Rawdon (LS19), Carlton, Guiseley, roofers in Horsforth, Arthington and roofers in Bramhope — and then every other area across Leeds and the Bradford district.
Leeds, worked from Bradford — a short run 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 LS19.