Roofers in Stevenage who know the New Town roof

Roofers in Stevenage who know the first New Town

Stevenage was designated on 1 August 1946 as the first New Town in the United Kingdom, and it was planned as six self-contained neighbourhoods around the old market town. That plan dates every roof in the town. Tell us the neighbourhood and we already know the era, the likely tile, the likely flat roof and the likely weak spot.

Our office at 59 Union Street, Dunstable is about 21 miles away, through Luton and up the A505 and A602 corridor. You get a roofer on your drive and a written price without waiting weeks for a diary slot.

Bedwell, Broadwater and Shephall: the roofs of the 1950s (SG1, SG2)

Bedwell (SG1) was occupied from 1952, with Broadview the first street finished in 1951, and Broadwater and Shephall (SG2) followed in 1953. They were built for families moving out from London, as terraces and semis to an affordable standard, in brick under concrete tile.

Those roofs are now seventy-plus years old. The tiles have outlived the felt under them, the mortar on the verges has cracked, and the timber fascias and soffits have rotted where gutters leaked. The right fix is a full strip and re-lay on membrane and battens, with a dry verge, new fascias and new guttering in one go. See our new roofs service and fascias and soffits.

Chells, Pin Green and Symonds Green: the 1960s and the flat roof era

Chells was built in the 1960s, and Pin Green and Symonds Green came later still. This is where Stevenage starts to show flat roofs: garage blocks, porch canopies, shallow-pitch extensions and bungalows with low or flat roofs. The original felt from that era has long since failed, and its replacements are ageing too, with blistering, ponding and split edges.

We renew these roofs in torch-on felt, EPDM rubber or GRP fibreglass, with new edge trims and lead at the wall. If you are choosing between systems, our flat roofing page compares them, and our garage roofs page covers the court-garage jobs.

• Garage and porch roofs re-laid with a new deck where the old one has rotted
• Roof lights re-kerbed and sealed
• Extension roofs dressed against the wall with new lead
• Gutters and downpipes cleared, repaired or replaced

Great Ashby and the newer estates

Great Ashby, to the north-east, is Stevenage's newer neighbourhood, and the roofs there are modern tile with dry-fixed ridges and verges and lead at the abutments. They are far from worn out, so the jobs are specific: a lifted ridge cap, a split verge, a gap at a bay roof or a small leak at a wall junction.

Small faults on a newer roof get a fast, tidy roof repair from us, not a sales pitch for a new roof.

Old Town and the conservation areas

The Old Town High Street has been a conservation area since 1969. Its houses are red brick and plain clay tile, with some slate and a few timber frames, and the roofs are simple pitches with the ridge running parallel to the street. St Nicholas and Rectory Lane (designated 1982) is different again: individual houses set back behind hedges, with slate and tiled gables, yellow brick and a few 1960s bungalows with flat roofs.

Shephall Green, Symonds Green and the Town Square are conservation areas too. In all of them the roof is part of the street, so we match tile, slate and ridge to what is there, and put any planning authority charge on its own line in the quote.

The roofing jobs Stevenage homes create

Stevenage's cycle tracks, footpaths and roundabouts were designed to keep traffic away from houses, and many terraces face a green or a path. Roofers in Stevenage need to plan the scaffold and the material delivery around that layout, and a risk assessment before every job is how we do it.

Leaks, storm damage and emergency calls in Stevenage

A leak in a New Town house is rarely where the stain shows. Water runs along a batten or a felt lap before it drops, so the damp patch on the landing can be two metres from the slipped tile that caused it. Roofers in Stevenage who only patch the stain are back within the year, and we trace the cause first.

When wind lifts a ridge or a tile comes down, call 01582 807949. Our emergency roof repairs make the roof safe first, with scaffold or temporary cover if the weather will not wait, then fix it properly. One customer's review describes the team attending within 24 hours and the roof made safe within a further 48.

From first call to finished roof

Every job follows the same path, so you know what happens next.

• You call or send the form, and we book a visit to look at the roof.
• We carry out a full no obligation assessment and photograph what we find.
• A written quote arrives with no hidden costs, plus a timetable for the job.
• Scaffold goes up, the work is done by the team, and the site is left tidy.
• You hold the 20 year written guarantee, and any concern gets a call to us.

Your Stevenage quote from Doyle Homes

Stevenage homeowners can read the proof first: TrustATrader 4.91 from 62 reviews and Google 4.7 from 23. We are fully insured, the quote is free with no obligation, and we will beat any written quote. All work is backed with a 20 year written guarantee.

We also cover Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City and Luton, and our Hertfordshire page lists the rest of the county. Send the free quote form or call 01582 807949.