Roofers in Pinner, Hatch End and Northwood

Roofers in Pinner for Tudor revival, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco houses

Pinner is one of the best-preserved pieces of Metroland. The village grew fast between 1923 and 1939, when the Metropolitan Railway turned fields around an old medieval street into garden estates, and the estates were laid out in styles borrowed from older England: Tudor revival, Arts and Crafts cottage, a little Art Deco. The roofs were designed to match.

That makes Pinner roofs more complex than the average semi. There are steeper pitches, more hips and valleys, tile-hung gables, catslide roofs that sweep low over porches and chimneys in prominent positions. A roof that looks simple from the road has twenty junctions between tile and brick, and each one is a place for water to get in.

What is on the roofs of the Pinner estates

Grange Estate and the Tudor revival houses

Tudor revival means steep gables, clay plain tiles and chimneys with stepped brick. The tiles are small, close-nailed and slow to repair properly, because a patch of different colour stands out on a house designed to look old. We source matching clay and re-lay in courses that run true.

Pinnerwood Park Estate and Arts and Crafts

Pinnerwood Park Estate is a conservation area built in the Arts and Crafts style, on a steep, semi-rural slope that rises to over 120 metres near Pinner Hill. Roofs there are long, low and hand-finished, with deep eaves, so the detail at the verge and the eaves line matters as much as the tiles.

Cecil Park Estate, Elm Park Road and the 1930s semis

Cecil Park was a testing ground for suburban housing, and Elm Park Road is a street of cottages. After ninety years the fixings, hips, ridge and lead are what fail first. We repair hips and ridges, renew soakers and re-felt where the underlay has perished. Elm Park Court, at West End Lane, is a listed Art Deco building and a reminder of how much of Pinner is protected.

Pinner High Street, Moss Lane and the conservation areas

Pinner High Street is a conservation area, and so are Moss Lane and Pinnerwood Park Estate. Harrow Council also applies Article 4 controls to parts of the borough, which means changes to the front of a house need planning permission first. We tell you what applies to your road at the survey.

For roofers in Pinner, that is half the job. We match materials like for like, keep the pitch and the proportions, and leave the roofline looking as the original architect intended. On a conservation-area house, a wrong tile is more expensive than a right one.

The Pinner repair list: leaks, dormers and tile-hung gables

Roofers in Pinner spend more time at the junctions than on the open slope, and so do we. Each repair is traced to the cause, photographed so you can see it, and priced in writing. If the roof is beyond patching, we say so and quote the re-roof. Our lead work and chimney repairs pages show how we treat the detail that decides whether a roof lasts.

• Leaks at hips and valleys where the lead has split or lifted
• Slipped plain tiles on steep Tudor revival pitches
• Cracked flaunching and open pointing on tall chimneys
• Flat roofs on dormers, porches and rear extensions, in felt or EPDM
• Gutters and fascias on deep eaves that have rotted behind the boards
• Full re-roofs when the battens and felt have perished

Hatch End, Eastcote and Northwood

Hatch End forms the north-eastern corner of Pinner and has its own station, open since 1842. Eastcote and Rayners Lane run alongside, and Northwood HA6 lies beyond them. Across all of it the housing is the same inter-war Metroland family, with the same ageing ridge, hip and lead details.

If you want roofers in Northwood, we cover Northwood and Northwood Hills as part of the same survey area. One call, one written quote, one 20 year written guarantee.

Steep roads, narrow drives and scaffold in Pinner

Pinner Hill and Pinnerwood climb steeply, and many of the older roads are narrow with parked cars on both sides. Delivery lorries and scaffold have to be planned: we check the access before we price, and any third party charges, such as a highway licence for pavement scaffold, are listed in your written quote. A risk assessment comes before every job.

The office is at 59 Union Street, Dunstable, about 30 miles from Pinner by the M1 and M25, so a free survey is easy to arrange.

Written price and a 20 year written guarantee

Every quote is free, with no obligation, and we promise to beat any written quote. All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee. We are fully insured, a family business and over 25 years in roofing.

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