Roofers in Leighton Buzzard, 9 miles from our door

Roofers in Leighton Buzzard, nine miles from our door

Leighton Buzzard is one of the closest towns to our office at 59 Union Street, Dunstable, about 9 miles along the A505. That matters on a roof job: when the weather turns and a ridge lifts, a roofer who is a short drive away is on your drive quickly, and the scaffold crew does not have a long haul either.

We quote across LU7, which covers the town, Linslade on the western bank of the canal, and the villages round them. The quote is free, there is no obligation, and the work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee.

Two towns on one canal: Leighton Buzzard and Linslade

The Grand Union Canal and the River Ouzel run through the middle of Leighton-Linslade, with Leighton Buzzard on one bank and Linslade, which has its own conservation area, on the other. The Grand Junction Canal opened in 1800, and Victorian terraces grew up beside the wharves and the railway, in brick under slate.

Those terraced roofs are 130 or more years old. Slates slip as nails rust, chimney stacks shared between neighbours lose their pointing, and lead flashings at the party walls split. We repair slate roofs like for like, rebuild or repoint stacks and renew lead, with our slate roofing and chimney repairs services.

The High Street: shops, flats and flat roofs

More than 70 buildings on Leighton Buzzard High Street are listed, and many have shops below and flats above, with pitched roofs at the front and flat roofs behind. Rear flat roofs, parapet gutters and lead valleys are the weak points, and they leak into the rooms below.

We carry out commercial roofing for shops, flats and landlords as well as homes, and we repair historic buildings like for like. Any planning charge goes on its own line in the quote.

Interwar semis and 1960s estates around the centre

Away from the canal, Leighton Buzzard is mostly 1930s semis and post-war family estates in brick under clay or concrete tile, with garages, porches and kitchen extensions that have flat roofs. At fifty to ninety years old the felt under the tiles has perished, the verges have cracked and the flat roofs are due.

The right job is a full new roof with membrane, battens and a dry verge, new fascias and soffits and guttering, and new felt, EPDM or GRP on the flat roofs, all under one scaffold. One customer had a new roof for the garage and conservatory plus new gutters and downpipes and structural repairs, and described the service as prompt, professional and tidy.

New estates to the south and east

Leighton Buzzard is expanding to the south and east, and the new estates have young roofs with dry-fixed ridges and verges. For roofers in Leighton Buzzard that means a different kind of call: a ridge cap that has lifted, a verge that has split, a roof window that leaks, or a gap round a chimney. We find the cause, repair it exactly and give a written guarantee on the repair.

Villages near Leighton Buzzard

Heath and Reach, Eggington, Billington and Stoke Hammond all sit within easy reach, along with the villages of the greensand ridge. Cottages here carry old clay tile and steep pitches, and bungalows carry flat porch roofs. We quote these the same way, with a free visit and a written price.

Our neighbours in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, Bedford and Luton use the same team, so a friend or relative a few miles away can book the same team.

Conservatories, garages and extensions

Leighton Buzzard roofing is not only about the main slope. Conservatories added in the 1990s have polycarbonate or glass roofs that cloud, leak and overheat, and garage roofs in old felt or sheeting reach the end of their lives. One customer wrote that we put a new roof on their conservatory to a very high standard and that the team took pride in their work.

We re-roof conservatories with a solid tiled or insulated roof, replace garage roofs in felt, EPDM or GRP, and build extension roofs on new joists. See garage and extension roofs for the options.

Guttering, fascias and chimneys

Water finds the weak joint in a roofline. A split gutter rots a fascia, the soffit follows, and a chimney with failed flaunching lets rain into the stack. Roofers in Leighton Buzzard are called to all three, and all three can fail on one house.

• Guttering and downpipes replaced or repaired
• Fascias and soffits renewed in uPVC
• Chimney stacks repointed, flaunching and pots reset
• Lead flashings renewed round stacks and walls

What you get from Doyle Homes

Our public record is TrustATrader 4.91 from 62 reviews and Google 4.7 from 23. We are a fully insured family business, we complete a risk assessment before every job, and we will beat any written quote. Our roof repairs start with a visit to find the cause. Leighton Buzzard homeowners can call 01582 807949 or send the free quote form.