Roof Repairs in Glasgow
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The Job
Most roof repairs come down to finding the fault, and the fault is hardly ever where the water shows up. Glasgow gets a lot of rain, and wind-driven rain finds a weak spot and then travels: water on a bedroom ceiling near the chimney is usually flashing that has lifted or cracked higher up, or a back gutter behind the stack that has filled with moss. A damp patch at the top of a wall is often a verge where the mortar has gone. A drip in the loft that only shows in a storm is a slipped slate or tile, a broken one, or a nail that has rusted through, and it has usually been letting a little in for a long time before anybody noticed. Slate roofs need the same care: a slate held by one nail moves a little in every gale until it slides, and a single slipped slate lets water onto the timber underneath every time it rains. So the first thing we do on any repair is get up there and look, with a camera. We photograph what we find and send you the photos with the price, so you can see the crack in the lead or the slate hanging loose for yourself. Then we fix that, and we tell you about anything else we saw while we were up there without turning it into a sales pitch. Some roofs need a handful of slates and a length of lead. Some have reached the point where every repair is buying six months, and we will say so.
Signs You Need Us
- A damp patch on a ceiling that grows after rain and dries out in between
- Tiles or slates on the lawn, in the gutter or in the flower bed
- A ridge tile sitting proud or missing, visible from the road
- Daylight showing in the loft, or wet on the underside of the felt
- Staining on a chimney breast or round a roof window
- Moss and debris piling up in one spot on the roof or in a valley
What We Check
- Every tile and slate on the slope, not just the one that fell
- The ridge and hips: mortar bedding, fixings, and whether they lift by hand
- Lead flashing, soakers and back gutters at the chimney and any abutting wall
- Valleys for cracked lining, blocked outlets and moss
- The felt or membrane underneath where we can see it from the loft
- The gutters and outlets, because an overflowing gutter is a roof leak by another name
What We Do
- Slipped and broken tiles replaced like for like, or the nearest match if the tile is no longer made
- Ridge and hip tiles re-bedded in mortar, or converted to a dry-fix system that does not rely on mortar at all
- Lead flashing redressed, re-welted or replaced; back gutters cleared and re-lined
- Valleys re-lined in lead or GRP where the old lining has failed
- Storm damage made watertight first, then repaired properly once the weather allows
- Photos from the roof before and after, sent to you with the invoice
On the Day
Most repairs are done from a ladder or a small tower and take a few hours. For anything at height on a two-storey house we use a tower or a short run of scaffold and tell you beforehand. We tidy the gutters as we go, bag the broken tiles and take them with us, and the photos from the roof come through the same day.
The Cost of Leaving It
A slipped tile lets a small amount of water onto the felt every time it rains. The felt was never meant to hold water for long, so it rots, then the batten under it rots, and after a few winters what would have been a single tile is a patch of stripped roof with new battens and membrane. A leaking chimney flashing does the same to the chimney breast plaster inside and to the timbers around the stack. The cheapest repair is always the one done the year the tile slipped.
Our Roof Repair Work
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Photographs from our own jobs.
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Questions About Roof Repairs
What does the free roof check cover?
We look at the part of the roof that is giving you trouble and the roof around it, photograph what we find and tell you what it needs and what it costs, in writing. There is no charge for the check and no obligation to go ahead.
Do you repair slate roofs as well as tiled ones?
Yes. Slipped and broken slates are replaced and fixed, ridges and hips re-bedded or dry-fixed, and lead flashing at chimneys and walls redressed or replaced, on slate and tiled roofs alike.
Is it worth repairing an old roof?
Usually, if the fault is local: a few slates, a ridge, a flashing. If we find the slates or the timbers underneath have reached the end, we show you the photos and tell you plainly, and a repair is still there as an option while you decide.