Professional New Roof Installations in Wallasey
Roofline Solutions provides professional new roof installations in Wallasey, including complete re-roofing, replacement roofs, new slate roofs and new tiled roofs.
We would rather quote for what a roof needs than for the largest job available. Sometimes that is a complete replacement; often it is a chimney flashing and a clear gutter, and we will say so.
We quote after looking at the roof. That means the loft as well as the outside — the state of the underlay, the battens and the rafter ends says far more about the real scope of a job than anything visible from the pavement.
Seaside Stock, and the Inter-War Roof Shape
The older property is broadly what you would expect: slate in many cases, complicated plans, and a fair amount of junction detail per square metre. It sits in an exposed position, which pushes towards a properly calculated fixing specification and towards renewing the lead rather than re-using it.
The inter-war half is the one that surprises people
Semis of the 1920s and 30s were very often built with hipped roofs rather than gables — four sloping planes running down to hips at the corners instead of two planes with a vertical gable wall at each end. It is a better-looking roof and it sheds wind well. It is also more expensive to cover, for reasons that have nothing to do with area.
- Every course has to be cut on the rake where it meets a hip — on both sides, on every hip. On a typical semi that is four hip lines.
- Hip tiles or hip irons run the full length of each hip and all have to be fixed and aligned.
- Cutting produces a great deal more waste than a gabled roof of the same area.
- A hipped roof reads as one closed object, so doing part of it is very visible.
Which means a rate per square metre quoted for a gabled terrace tells you nothing about a hipped semi. They are different jobs. Compare quotations for your roof, not rates in general.
One question worth putting to anyone quoting on a hipped roof: how are the hips being finished? The originals are bedded in mortar, and by now that mortar has done its cracking — which on a hip means tiles can slide. Mechanically fixed dry hip systems cost a little more and remove the failure mode.
Complete Re-Roofing in Wallasey
The thing to compare between quotations is not the total but the scope. Three prices for the same defined piece of work tell you something. Three prices for three different pieces of work tell you only which contractor assumed the least.
New Tiled Roofs Wallasey
Where a roof was originally slate and now carries tile, somebody changed it. That is worth knowing before a re-roof, because it means the structure was framed for something lighter, and because going back to slate is available to you at the one moment when it is comparatively straightforward.
New Slate Roofs Wallasey
The junctions matter more on a slate roof than the slate does. Older slated property typically carries more abutment and valley detailing than a modern tiled roof, and every one of those needs lead - which is slow, skilled and priced by weight.
Roof Replacement in Wallasey
Where a property is one of a pair or a terrace and the neighbouring roof is the same age, there is a real saving in doing both together - one scaffold, one site set-up, one waste run, and no awkward junction where new covering meets old.
Does Your Wallasey Roof Need Replacing?
Cracked or missing mortar at the ridge and verges, and lead that has split, lifted or been patched with mastic, are small in area and disproportionately visible. On their own they are repairs; alongside other signs they are part of a picture.
- An ageing slate or tiled roof
- Repeated repairs, in different areas each time
- Widespread deterioration of the roof covering
- A property renovation
- Replacing the existing covering as one complete project
- Installing a new pitched roof for a suitable building project
Roof Repair or Complete Re-Roof in Wallasey?
Where several things on the outside of the house are due within a few years of each other, that shifts a borderline case decisively. Doing them under one scaffold is the difference between paying for access once and paying for it three times.
Slate or Tile for a New Roof in Wallasey?
The safest general rule is to go back to what the building was designed for. The structure was framed for the weight of the original covering and the pitch was set for its characteristics, so returning to it is nearly always the straightforward answer - structurally, technically and visually.
New Roofs for Property Renovations in Wallasey
A sensible order is: survey and any permissions, scaffold up, structural work, strip and timber repairs, new covering and lead, then chimney, render and upper windows on the same scaffold, then fascias and gutters, then scaffold down - and only then the internal programme.
New Roofs for Extensions and Garages in Wallasey
For a garage or outbuilding the honest advice is often that a simpler specification is enough. There is no sense putting a house-grade covering on an unheated store, and we would rather say so than sell you one.
