Roofers in Harpenden for larger roofs and period homes

Roofers in Harpenden for big roofs and mature gardens

Harpenden is a commuter town of large houses on tree-lined roads. Detached homes make up a far bigger share of the housing than the national average, and a detached house has a bigger roof to maintain: more ridge, more hips, more valleys, more chimneys and more lead. Roofers in Harpenden start every job with that scale in mind.

Our office at 59 Union Street, Dunstable is only about 9 miles away, so Harpenden is one of the closest towns we quote in. A roofer can be at your door within days, and you get a written price after the first visit.

Poets' Corner, the Edwardian roads and the edge of the Common

Harpenden grew when its farms were sold for building from 1880 onwards, and the roads east of the centre, known as Poets' Corner, carry the names of English writers: Byron Road, Milton Road and their neighbours. Around them sit Victorian villas and Edwardian family houses, many beside the 238 acres of the Common, built in brick under clay tile or Welsh slate with tile-hung gables and ornate ridge tiles.

These roofs are a century old and they show it in the same places. Lead flashings crack at the chimney, ridge tiles loosen as the mortar goes, and valley gutters clog with leaf debris from the mature trees. We repair the lead, re-bed the ridge, rebuild the chimney if it has leaned and match the clay or slate to the existing roof.

What a large Harpenden roof asks of a roofer

A big roof is a set of small, separate jobs, and the cost of getting any one wrong is a stain on a good ceiling. We scaffold the whole elevation so every junction is reached, then work through the list.

Hips, valleys and ridges

Hip and ridge tiles on a large house run for metres, and the mortar on them dries and cracks. We re-bed or dry fix them, and renew valley lead or valley tiles. See dry verge and ridge.

Chimneys and lead

Harpenden houses carry several stacks. Flaunching, pointing and lead flashings fail from the top down, so we rebuild or repoint the stack and renew the lead work round it under one visit.

Dormers, bays and extensions

Rear extensions, loft dormers and bay roofs are small flat or lead-lined roofs that leak at the edges. We renew them in lead, felt, EPDM or GRP. See flat roofing.

Trees, moss and blocked gutters

Leafy roads mean shaded roofs, and shaded roofs grow moss, lichen and leaf mould. Blocked gutters then overflow behind the fascia and rot the roof edge. We offer roof cleaning and moss removal, clear and repair guttering and replace rotten fascias and soffits where the water has got in.

A customer who invited us to inspect their roof and guttering received information and photographs of the work required, a good-value quote and further photographs once the work was done, so the finished work was checked from the ground.

Batford, Southdown and Kinsbourne Green

Batford, in the Lea valley to the north-east, has its own parade of shops and the Batford Park nearby. Southdown has its own shops too, and Kinsbourne Green sits to the south. The housing on the outskirts is a mix of 1930s semis, post-war family houses and bungalows.

Those roofs are the working end of the market: clay and concrete tile that is sixty to ninety years old, with fascias and soffits to renew and flat extension roofs to redo. We quote them as carefully as the Edwardian villas, with the same free, no obligation visit.

Harpenden's conservation area

Harpenden has its own conservation area in the St Albans district. Where the roof is in one, we match slate, tile and ridge to what is already there, and list any planning authority charge separately in your quote.

Why a Harpenden roof costs what it costs

Roofers in Harpenden price larger roofs, and the size is the reason. More square metres of tile, longer ridges, more lead, taller scaffold and heavier chimney work all add up, and a quote from us shows each line: materials, labour and any third party charges, with no hidden costs.

Read our new roof cost guide for the market ranges, then ask for your own written price. If you already have a written quote from another firm, we promise to beat it. Roofing in Harpenden is competitive on price, and we win on the whole picture: the written guarantee, the insurance and the finish.

What the first visit covers

The visit is free and carries no obligation. Here is what happens.

• We look at the roof from the ground, the ladder and, where it is safe, the scaffold line.
• We photograph each defect and explain it in plain English.
• The quote is written and detailed, and the timetable comes with it.
• We carry out a risk assessment before the work starts.
• When the job is done, the site is left tidy and the 20 year written guarantee is yours.

Booking roofers in Harpenden

Our record is public: TrustATrader 4.91 from 62 reviews and Google 4.7 from 23. We are a fully insured family business, the quote is free with no obligation, and we will beat any written quote. All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee.

For a leak or a blown ridge, book our roof repairs service or ask for a visit with the free quote form. We also cover St Albans, Luton, Hemel Hempstead and Hitchin.