A detached red-brick bungalow in Warrington taken back to the rafters a section at a time, refelted and re-battened, then covered in new dark concrete tiles with the valley reworked.
The roof on this Warrington bungalow had reached the end of its tile covering, so rather than patch it we took it off. The house is a long low red-brick bungalow with a hipped roof, a chimney stack at one end and a valley where the main run meets the projecting front section — the kind of roof where a leak tends to appear in one place and turn out to have started somewhere else entirely.
We worked in sections rather than opening up the whole roof at once. One of the photographs shows the front slope stripped right back to bare rafters with the old sarking gone, while the far end is still carrying its original tiles; that is how a re-roof on an occupied house is best done, keeping the open area to what can be covered again the same day.
The old tiles came off first and were stacked on the ground and in the driveway, along with the old battens, which you can see piled up beside the new lengths waiting to go on. Anything that came off was sorted as it came down rather than left to build up on the roof, and the waste went straight into a tipper trailer on the drive.
With the covering off, the rafters were open to look at along their full length. That is the only point at which the timber can properly be inspected, and it is the reason a full strip tells you more about a roof than any number of lifted tiles.
A green breathable membrane went on over the rafters, lapped down the slope and dressed into the valley, then new treated battens were nailed through it at the gauge for the tiles. In the photographs you can see the membrane still showing at the ridge and along the hip while the courses below it are already tiled — the covering chases the felt up the slope.
The new tiles are dark concrete interlocking tiles, laid course by course from the eaves. The valley between the two slopes was reworked as part of the same job, with the tiles cut in to the valley line on both sides so water runs off the two pitches into one channel instead of over mortar.
The last photograph is the bungalow with the work done: one even tile colour across the whole roof, the hip lines straight, and the front elevation looking a good deal newer than it did when we arrived. The site was cleared of the old tiles, the offcut batten and the broken pieces before we left.
If the tiles on your own house are cracking, slipping or simply worn out, we cover this work as roofers in Warrington and across Cheshire. We also do smaller repairs — the ridge re-bedding job nearby is an example. Ask us for a free quote and we will tell you which of the two your roof actually needs.
Tell us what the roof is doing and roughly where you are. We will come and look, and you get a written price before anything starts.
