Roof repairs in Newark

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.