Nottinghamshire
Roof repairs in Newark
Slipped pantiles, hidden leaks and failed lead put right across NG22, NG23 and NG24.
A slipped tile lets water in months before anything shows indoors. We repair roofs across Newark-on-Trent and the surrounding villages, from a single tile to a whole elevation, and you get photographs of what is actually wrong before you get a price.
Pantiles, and why they slip
Much of the older housing in Newark carries clay pantile. They interlock by sitting in each other's lap rather than clipping together, which is why one lifted by wind or a failed nail takes its neighbour out of line too. Caught early it is a quick, cheap repair. Left for a couple of winters it soaks the felt and battens underneath and stops being either.
Parapets and valley gutters
Georgian frontages around the market place often hide their roofs behind a parapet, with a valley gutter running along behind it. Those gutters are lined, usually in lead, and when the lining fails there is nothing between the water and the building. They are also invisible from the street, so problems announce themselves indoors. If your house has one, it is worth having looked at before it tells you itself.
Tracing a leak to its actual source
Water runs along battens and down rafters and drops wherever it likes, so the stain on the ceiling is rarely under the hole. We work back to the real entry point, lifting tiles where we need to rather than guessing from the ground, and photograph what is underneath so you can see the same evidence we did.
Matching what is there
Where a tile has been out of production for years, we have sourced matched replacements from a salvage yard rather than fit the nearest modern thing, because a bright patch in a weathered roof is not really a repair. Repairs carry the same five or ten year guarantee as our largest jobs, and our customers have rated us 5.0 across Google, Checkatrade, MyBuilder and Bark.
- Free written quotes
- The price quoted is the price paid
- Five or ten year guarantee on every repair
- Fully insured, public and employer's liability
- 5.0 rating across Google, Checkatrade, MyBuilder and Bark
Our work
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Every photograph here is EverCrest's own, taken on the job.
What people say
In their words, not ours
One of the problems of finding a roofer when you are an older person is the thought of being scammed, especially given the increasing numbers of rogue traders together with the high costs at stake especially if the work is poor or non existent. We trawled a lot of roofers and found varying prices and limited experience and ‘one man bands’ offering little or no guarantees for their work. We came across Fred’s newly formed EverCrest Property Care Ltd Company and were initially concerned at the limited 3 months or so that they had been trading for, albeit that Fred had been a Sole Trader for some 6 years. So we undertook a ‘due diligence’ on the company and found they had worked on a limited number of roofing projects in the start up time. However having had a number of positive conversations with Fred we decided to give his company a chance having had a very good response and price to our required specification that formed the basis of our Building Control Application through Boston Borough Council. They say you can only make a first impression once and EverCrest Property Care Ltd certainly made an excellent impression indeed, in fact the work they undertook was first class and our Building Control Inspector was equally impressed with the standard of works they carried out. Our project involved replacing a main roof on a detached property and likewise on a kitchen extension. Work commenced on a Friday with the scaffolding being erected along with the delivery of two skips. On the Monday morning around 8:30am a team of 7 arrived on site and by 10am both roofs had been stripped and the Building Inspector was called early to check out the structure prior to the roofers installing the new insulation, membrane and battening in readiness for the new soffits, guttering and tiles being installed from Tuesday onwards. By Thursday the project had been completed and the Building Inspector returned first thing Friday morning and signed off the work having been impressed with the finished work. On the basis of the above experience we would have no hesitation in recommending EverCrest Property Care Ltd as a suitable and very experienced roofing contractor and would be happy to give any references to their standard of works.
Brilliant work! Reasonable price a friendly. Recommend to anyone. Sorted out my roof after 3 companies turned me down.
Amazing roof repair everything finished to a high standard,good communication and reasonable priced would definetly recommend.
Before you ring
Roof Repairs in Newark: common questions
Is a single slipped pantile worth calling about?
Yes, because the felt underneath is the last line of defence and was never meant to be the first. One tile out of line is cheap to put back; the same tile after two wet winters is a much bigger job.
My house has a parapet and I cannot see the roof at all. Can you check it?
That is exactly the kind of roof worth checking, because the valley gutter behind a parapet fails out of sight and the first sign is usually damp indoors. We get up, look properly and photograph it.
How do you find a leak with no obvious hole?
By working back from where the water lands to where it enters, which means getting up and lifting tiles rather than guessing. You get photographs of the actual entry point.
Do you cover Balderton and Fernwood?
Yes, along with the rest of NG24 and the NG22 and NG23 villages. The estate roofs there are all a similar age, so the faults are familiar and quick to diagnose.
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