Roofers in Aylesbury: free quote, 20 year written guarantee

Roofers in Aylesbury for a county town that kept growing

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire, and it has been added to in layers: a medieval and Georgian core around the church and market square, Victorian streets beyond it, then large post-war and overspill estates, and finally the design-led new neighbourhoods on the edge. Three postcodes cover Aylesbury itself, HP19, HP20 and HP21, with HP18 and HP22 reaching the villages around it.

Our office at 59 Union Street, Dunstable is about 21 miles from Aylesbury by Leighton Buzzard and the A418. An Aylesbury roofer visits, looks at the roof from the ground and the ladder, and gives you a written price.

Quarrendon, Fairford Leys and Watermead (HP19)

Quarrendon on the north-west side of town began as a post-war estate and was built out in four stages up to the 1980s, so one estate carries several generations of roof. Fairford Leys, also in HP19, is an urban village built in a deliberately traditional style, with three- and four-storey townhouses, Victorian detail and design guidelines that govern roof materials and chimneys.

The work on those two estates is opposite. In Quarrendon, the older houses need re-roofing with membrane, battens and dry verge, and the flat roofs on porches and garages need renewing. In Fairford Leys, the roofs are young, so the job is a targeted repair that matches the existing tile and the original design: a lifted ridge, a failed lead flashing or a leak at a roof window. Browse our roof repair and lead work services.

Town centre, Walton, Southcourt, Bedgrove and Elm Farm (HP20, HP21)

HP20 takes in the town centre, Broughton and Elmhurst. HP21 covers Walton, Walton Court, Southcourt, Bedgrove, Elm Farm and Queens Park. Between them sit Victorian terraces near the centre, 1930s and post-war semis, and the overspill estates of the 1960s and 1970s.

The older terraces are slate and clay tile with lead and chimney stacks that have outlived their pointing. The estate houses are brick under concrete tile, now forty to sixty years old, with felt that has perished and verges that have cracked. We repair the first group like for like and re-roof the second group with new membrane and a dry verge, working from a single scaffold. Our slate roofing and new roofs pages explain both.

Conservation areas: Aylesbury Town, Walton Road and Wendover Road

The Aylesbury Town conservation area is compact, only 13 hectares, but holds 139 listed buildings, among them St Mary's Church, the King's Head and townhouses along Church Street and Temple Street. Walton Road and Wendover Road are conservation areas too.

On a listed or conservation street the roof is part of the heritage, so we match tile, slate and ridge detail and show any planning authority charge as its own line in your quote, so you see the whole cost before you agree.

The villages around Aylesbury: HP18 and HP22

HP18 reaches Waddesdon, Brill, Long Crendon and Ickford. HP22 covers Aston Clinton, Stoke Mandeville, Weston Turville, Wendover and Wingrave. Roofers in Aylesbury working these villages meet older cottages with plain clay tile, post-war semis on village edges and new infill, and the Chiltern foot slopes round Wendover bring steeper pitches and more wind.

We quote village roofs the same way as town roofs, with a free visit and a written price. Milton Keynes lies to the north and Leighton Buzzard to the east, so a neighbour in the next village can book with the same team.

An open vale means open roofs

The Vale of Aylesbury is low and flat, and weather crosses it without much to stop it. Ridge tiles, verges and the edges of flat roofs take the wind, and a roof that held for thirty years can lose a ridge in one storm. For a leak or a blown tile, go to emergency roof repairs.

Before every job we complete a risk assessment, agree the scaffold position with you, and afterwards leave the property tidy. Customers describe the team as polite, punctual and clean, and one review says the scaffold arrived about 24 hours after the price was agreed.

Rooflines, gutters and chimneys: the small jobs that stop big ones

Roofers in Aylesbury see the same chain of events in estate houses: a gutter joint leaks for years, the fascia behind it rots, the soffit follows and damp reaches the rafters. Replacing the fascia, soffit and gutter together costs less than a rotted rafter, and it is one scaffold for the lot.

Chimneys on the older brick terraces need pointing and flaunching, and on the 1960s estates the shared stacks need the same. We carry out chimney repairs and fit new guttering and fascias and soffits in the same visit. If you are comparing Aylesbury roofing quotes, ask each one to itemise this work.

• Fascias and soffits replaced in white or black uPVC
• Gutters and downpipes renewed or cleared
• Chimney stacks repointed, flaunching renewed, pots reset
• Lead flashings renewed where the stack meets the roof

A quote you can check from roofers in Aylesbury

Two public profiles carry our record: TrustATrader 4.91 from 62 reviews and Google 4.7 from 23. We are a fully insured family business and our quotes are free with no obligation. We will beat any written quote you hold, and all work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee.

Send the form with your postcode and a photo if you have one, or call 01582 807949. For a bigger job, our guide to new roof costs helps you plan the budget first. Our neighbours in Hemel Hempstead and Luton use the same free quote form.