Roofers in LeedsRoof Repairs, Repointing& Re-Roofs Across LS

The city's terraces and back-to-backs were slated with iron nails that have now had well over a century of damp. They corrode through, and slates begin slipping in ones and twos across the whole slope.

Patching buys time and is often the right call. But when slates are coming down every winter from different areas of the roof, the fixings have reached the end and a strip and re-cover is the cheaper answer over any sensible timescale.

Leeds has decades' worth of rear extensions, box dormers and bay roofs finished in felt. Once the surface cracks and laps open, water tracks along the deck and appears somewhere entirely different inside.

The other frequent fault is the upstand where the flat roof meets the main wall. A cement fillet instead of a proper lead or dressed upstand will always fail, and it is one of the most common defects we find in the city.

Back-to-backs and terraces share stacks, gutters and party walls. A defect on one property routinely shows as damp on another, and both owners can spend money without addressing the actual cause.

We inspect the full junction and report honestly, including when the fault sits on a neighbouring property. It is a more useful answer than a quote that would not have fixed anything.

Suburban Leeds is full of concrete-tiled roofs from the 1950s to 1970s where the bitumen felt underlay has gone brittle and torn. Wind-driven rain that gets past the tiles is then unchecked.

The symptom is damp appearing in the loft during driven rain but not steady rain, with no obviously broken tile above. It is diagnosed from inside the roof space, and the fix is a re-cover with modern breathable membrane rather than endless spot repairs.