Roofers in St Albans: slate, tile and flat roofs, guaranteed for 20 years
Roofers in St Albans for slate, clay tile and flat roofs, from one slipped slate to a full re-roof, with over 25 years' experience. Call 01582 807949 for a free, no obligation quote and a 20 year written guarantee on the work.
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Roofers in St Albans, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
St Albans is a Roman city with a Tudor core, a Victorian railway suburb and a belt of Edwardian villas, and the roof over your head depends on which of those you live in. This is the housing we see across the city, and the roof jobs each type creates.
Area and postcode
Housing
Roof jobs it creates
Clarence Park and Verulam (AL1)
Victorian and Edwardian villas with bay fronts and decorative brickwork
Slate and clay tile repairs, lead round bays and stacks, ridge re-bedding
The Park and London Road (AL1)
Edwardian villas on generous plots, Victorian terraces, Art Deco touches
Large hipped roofs, valley lead, tall chimney stacks, guttering at height
St Michael's Village (AL3)
Tudor timber frames and Georgian townhouses beside the River Ver
Old clay tile matched to the existing roof, careful lead work
Fleetville and Camp (AL1)
Late Victorian terraces and 1920s to 1930s semis
Slate re-roofs, flat roofs on rear extensions, fascias and soffits
Marshalswick and Jersey Farm (AL1, AL4)
1930s Arts and Crafts influenced homes, post-war semis, later estates
Clay tile hips and gables, tile-hung bays, concrete tile re-roofs
Bernards Heath and Townsend (AL3)
Victorian villas and Edwardian semis, mid-century housing
Chimney repointing, ridge and hip repairs, gutter replacement
Sopwell and Cottonmill (AL1)
Victorian terraces, interwar housing, 1950s council homes
Chiswell Green, Park Street and London Colney (AL2)
Post-war suburban housing and period cottages along Watling Street
Re-roofs, dry verge, cottage roof repairs
Victorian and Edwardian roofs: slate, clay and lead
The Victorian terraces of Fleetville, Sopwell and the streets off London Road were roofed in Welsh slate, with brick chimney stacks and lead where the roof meets a wall. Edwardian villas in Clarence Park and The Park moved to clay tile with ornamental ridge pieces and tile-hung bays. Both are 100-plus-year-old roofs, and both fail in familiar ways.
A slate roof loses slates when the iron nails corrode, and a clay roof loses tiles to frost. Lead flashings split at the stack, and the first sign is a brown ring on the bedroom ceiling. These are the jobs that show whether roofers in St Albans know older houses: finding the failed flashing or the slipped slate, fixing the cause and quoting the rest of the roof honestly.
Many terraces and villas also carry a flat-roofed rear extension or kitchen added in the last fifty years. Those roofs reach the end of their life long before the slate above them does, and we renew them in felt, EPDM or GRP and dress them up to the wall with new lead so the junction stops leaking. Roofing in St Albans is as much about those small joins as about the big slopes.
Slate terraces in Fleetville and Sopwell
We strip back to sound battens, relay the good slate and replace the broken with matching natural slate. A review from a customer with a complex old house describes a new slate roof panel, replaced flat roof lead, new gutters, chimney work and repointing, finished in rapid succession with no missing days. See slate roofing for the detail.
Clay-tiled villas in Clarence Park and The Park
Big hipped roofs mean long ridges, valleys and several chimney stacks. We re-bed ridge and hip tiles, renew lead work and repair or rebuild chimneys, working from scaffold so every part of the roof is seen up close.
1930s semis in Marshalswick and Jersey Farm
Marshalswick and Jersey Farm were laid out as a garden suburb in the 1930s, with Arts and Crafts influenced houses and generous gardens, and post-war semis filled the gaps. The typical roof is a clay-tiled hip or gable with a tile-hung bay and timber barge boards. After ninety years the tiles still shed water, but the felt or lime torching beneath them has aged out and the barge boards have rotted. Roofers in St Albans meet this pairing constantly on 1930s streets: sound tiles on a tired structure.
That makes this a re-roof and roofline area: new membrane and battens, the good tiles reused where they are sound, and white uPVC fascias and soffits fitted in the same visit. The post-war concrete-tiled semis get a straight new roof with a dry verge, and a flat-roofed garage or kitchen extension gets a new flat roof at the same time.
Conservation areas in the city centre, Sopwell and the villages
The district holds 19 conservation areas, and the city centre and Sopwell are two of them, with Redbourn, Wheathampstead, Sandridge and London Colney among the villages. Where a roof sits in one, the look matters as much as the leak, so we match tile size, colour, slate type and ridge detail to the existing roof.
St Michael's Village (AL3) and the streets around the cathedral carry Tudor and Georgian roofs, where old clay tile and lime mortar details are repaired like for like. Any local planning authority charge goes into the quote as a separate line, so you see the full figure before you agree.
Access, permits and scaffold in a cathedral city
Around the centre, Clarence Park and Fleetville, houses sit on narrow streets with permit parking and few drives. A scaffold or skip on the public highway needs a licence, so we plan the scaffold, the skip and the loading bay before the day and book the job around your street. Then comes the risk assessment, completed before the work starts, as on every job.
The office at 59 Union Street, Dunstable is about 15 miles from St Albans, along the A5 to Markyate and on through Redbourn. That is close enough for a roofer to see your roof and give you a written price quickly.
A fair price from roofers in St Albans you can check
Three review profiles back us up: TrustATrader 4.91 from 62 reviews, Google 4.7 from 23 and Checkatrade 9.63 from 73. We are a family business, fully insured, and the quote is free with no obligation. Send us a written quote from anyone else and we will beat it.
St Albans roofing quotes from us start with a full no obligation assessment, then a detailed quote with no hidden costs and a detailed timetable. All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee. For a leak, a blown ridge or a chimney, start with roof repairs in St Albans. For a whole roof, read our new roof cost guide first, then ask for your price.
Nearby places we also cover
From St Albans we reach Harpenden to the north, Hemel Hempstead to the west, Watford to the south and Welwyn Garden City to the east, and the villages between them. Tell us the postcode on the free quote form and we will confirm a visit.
How it works
How it works, from first call to guarantee
Tell us what the roof is doing
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Free survey
Hugh or one of the team comes out, carries out a full assessment of the roof and talks you through what they find.
Detailed written quote
A detailed quote and timetable in writing. Free, no obligation, and we will beat any written quote.
The work, guaranteed
A risk assessment before we start, fully insured work, and a 20 year written guarantee when it is signed off.
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Recent work by our team
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Word for word, each one linked to the platform it was left on.
TrustATrader review
Complex work on an old house, new slate roof panel, replacing flat roof lead, new gutters, chimneys sorted, soffit repairs, new ridge tiles, repointing and painting. A major amount of work done in rapid succession with no missing days in between under the auspices of Hugh. I would thoroughly recommend him and his team. One gutter joint came apart in the hot weather following and Hugh came very promptly to fix it. How work should be done.
I had invited them to inspect my roof and guttering. They provided me with information and photographs of the work that was required. The quote was good value. When they undertook the work, it was very professional, with further photographs to allow me to inspect the work undertaken and completed. Happy to recommend.
Our chimney, fascia and gable boards needed repair. When the edge tiles came off the deterioration of the roof battens and roofing membrane was obvious. Such is the excellent customer care and problem solving, Hugh’s team swung into action, extra scaffolding was swiftly erected and the whole roof replaced with new tiles within two weeks, with some additional work I requested also completed. All done efficiently, tidily and by a skilful, hard-working and polite team. I appreciated such good communication and advice and am delighted with the outcome. Several neighbours have said how impressed they are with the finished result. I am happy to recommend this company to others.
All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee
Every job, from a single slipped tile to a full re-roof, comes with a 20 year guarantee in writing. You get it with your paperwork when the job is signed off, and if anything we did lets you down inside those 20 years, you ring the same number and we come back and put it right.
Do you cover Harpenden, Redbourn and Wheathampstead as well as St Albans?
Yes. We work across the whole St Albans area, AL1 to AL4, and into Harpenden, Redbourn, Wheathampstead, Sandridge and London Colney. See our Harpenden page for the north side of the district.
Can you re-roof a Victorian terrace in slate?
Yes. We strip to the battens, renew the underlay, relay sound slate and replace broken slate with matching natural slate. Lead flashings and chimney flaunching are renewed in the same visit.
Do roofers in St Albans have to work differently in a conservation area?
The materials matter more. We match slate, tile and ridge detail to the existing roof, and any planning authority charge appears in the quote, so there are no surprises when the invoice arrives.
Will you tell me if my St Albans home only needs a repair?
Yes. Customers say we did not push them to decide and gave honest advice on the initial survey. If a repair solves it, that is the quote you get. If the roof is finished, we say so and show you why.
How long does a re-roof take on a St Albans terrace?
Reviews describe a scaffold up within about 24 hours of agreeing a price and a full re-roof finished in days. Bigger houses with extra chimney, fascia or lead work take up to two weeks.
How do I check you before I book in St Albans?
Read the reviews on TrustATrader (4.91 from 62), Google (4.7 from 23) and Checkatrade (9.63 from 73). We are fully insured and offer a free, no obligation quote, so you can compare us on paper first.
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