Roofers in Barnet, Finchley, Mill Hill and Hendon

Roofers in Barnet on some of the highest ground in London

High Barnet sits about 130 metres above sea level, one of the highest built-up spots in London, and the roofs feel it. The old Great North Road climbs Barnet Hill to the church of St John the Baptist, and every house on that ridge faces the wind across open country to the north. Ridge tiles lift, verges loosen and gutters overflow in storms that do little harm a few miles south.

The streets around the High Street mix Georgian and Victorian buildings with Edwardian and 1930s semis that spread out once the railway arrived. Monken Hadley next door is a conservation area with its own character. Whichever you live in, the roof is the part of the house that takes the beating, and as roofers in Barnet we start by looking at how it has been holding up.

The borough is large and varied, so we have split this page by district. Find yours below, or call 01582 807949 and tell us the postcode.

Finchley: N2, N3 and N12

Finchley is really three town centres, East Finchley, Church End and North Finchley, strung along the Northern line on the way to High Barnet. The parish grew from 46,716 people in 1921 to 58,964 in 1931, which tells you how much of it was built in a single decade. That is why so many Finchley roofs are now at the same age together.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces cluster near the old centres, with Welsh slate, lead valleys and chimneys on party walls. The inter-war semis between them have hipped tile roofs and bay-window covers. Hampstead Garden Suburb crosses the N2 border, and its conservation area is the strictest in the borough, so we price like-for-like clay tile and tell you what consent applies before the first slate comes off.

Finchley Church End is a conservation area of its own. If you want a roofer in Finchley who handles consent questions as part of the quote, you have found one.

Mill Hill NW7: village cottages and Broadway semis

Mill Hill Village runs in a ribbon along The Ridgeway, with Green Belt either side and a High Street of 100 yards. Since the 17th century the area has been a country retreat for Londoners, and large houses and cottages from every century since survive under slate and clay tile. The Broadway side grew from the 1890s after the station opened, and most houses in Mill Hill are semi-detached.

The hills do the damage: Milespit Hill, Bittacy Hill and Holders Hill all lift the wind onto the slopes. Old clay plain tiles delaminate, soakers corrode and brick chimneys lose their pointing. Mill Hill is a conservation area, so repairs on the older streets use matching tile and slate.

Hendon NW4 and the 1920s boom

Hendon Central station opened in 1923 on open fields. In that first year 687 houses and other buildings were finished and plans for another 1,500 were approved, so the semis around Watford Way and the Quadrant are among the oldest inter-war roofs in North London. Their original concrete or clay tiles are now a century old.

Older Hendon sits higher. Church End is the high point at about 85 metres, the Victoria Estate round Victoria and Stratford Roads dates from the 1870s and 1880s, and Waverley Grove and Tenterden Grove were laid out in the 1860s. Those Victorian streets mean Welsh slate, worn lead and rusted nails, and the shops and flats along Brent Street add flat roofs of their own.

Whetstone and Totteridge N20

Whetstone's High Road was the Great North Road, and the large detached and semi-detached houses behind it go up the slope towards Totteridge, which has its own conservation area and a lot of roof area per house. Larger roofs mean longer scaffold runs, bigger valleys and more chimneys, and they reward a proper survey over a guessed price.

We survey every elevation and give you one written quote for the lot. A single slipped slate can turn out to be a failed valley, and you see it with your own eyes before you decide.

Roof repairs in Barnet when the wind has been through

Calls from Barnet start with one of three problems: a ridge or verge the wind has shifted, a leak that follows a chimney or bay, or a flat roof that has stopped draining. Roofers in Barnet who know the hill fix the cause in that order and leave the roof tight for the next storm. Each of these jobs has a fixed process at Doyle Homes, from the photographs to the written guarantee.

Hill-top ridges and verges

Wind-driven rain gets under ridge tiles first. We re-bed them or fit a dry verge and ridge system, replace the cracked tiles around them and check the verge for loose mortar, so the next storm finds nothing to lift.

Lead, chimneys and bays

On Victorian and Edwardian houses the leak is rarely where the stain is. Water tracks along a rafter from a failed soaker or a cracked stack, and we follow it back to the source, then renew the lead work or repoint the stack.

Extensions and garages

A flat roof on a rear extension or garage that has stopped draining will not mend itself. We find the pond, cut out the failed section or recover the whole roof, and you get the same 20 year written guarantee as on a full re-roof.

What roofers in Barnet are called for most

Browse the new roofs, flat roofing and tiled roofing pages for the detail on each, or the fascias and soffits page for the roofline.

• Slipped tiles and ridges on exposed hill-top roofs
• Lead flashings and valleys behind chimneys and bays
• Felt and fibreglass flat roofs on rear extensions and garages
• Re-roofs on 1920s and 1930s semis when the battens have perished
• Fascias, soffits and guttering, replaced in uPVC

Parking, scaffold and the M1 run

Barnet has controlled parking zones around the High Street, the stations and the Northern line centres. On narrow Victorian roads the scaffold has to stand on the pavement, which needs a highway licence. We check the access before we price, and any third party charges are listed in your written quote. The office is at 59 Union Street, Dunstable, about 25 miles up the M1, so a free survey is a short run for us.

Every job starts with a risk assessment. All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee, we are fully insured, and we promise to beat any written quote. Also covering roofers in Enfield, Edgware, Potters Bar and Harrow, plus the rest of North London. Request your free quote now.