Roofers in Stowmarket

The roofs we see in Stowmarket

Stowmarket grew around the railway and then kept expanding, so the roofs run from Victorian brick and slate near the station out to estates built in every decade since. The villages around it are older, with clay pantile and thatch on the oldest, and that changes what a repair involves.

In town it is the usual mid life problems: slipped concrete tiles, mortar ridges that have had enough, and roofline that was fitted over timber which should have come off. In the villages it is pantile and leadwork on older property, and we will always tell you when a roof needs a specialist rather than a roofer.

What we get called out for in Stowmarket

Slipped concrete tiles and tired mortar ridges on the estates, roofline that was capped over rotten timber rather than replaced, and pantile and leadwork on the older village property around the town.

Signs your roof needs looking at

• Sagging along the ridge line when you look from across the road
• Mortar missing from the ridge or the edge of the roof
• Tiles, slates or lumps of mortar on the ground after wind
• Fascia or bargeboard paint flaking, with the timber going dark underneath
• A flat roof that still has water sitting on it days after rain