Roofers in Sudbury

The roofs we see in Sudbury

Sudbury is a Stour valley wool town, which means a lot of the centre is timber framed, listed or in the conservation area, with clay peg tile and long steep pitches. Around it the housing is a mix of Victorian brick and post war estates on concrete tile.

Period property is the bulk of what we get asked to look at here. Peg tile roofs where the oak pegs or the batten have gone, valleys that were lined decades ago, and chimney stacks on timber framed buildings where the pointing has been done in a cement mix that is too hard for the brick. All of it wants doing in the material it was built in, not covered over.

What we get called out for in Sudbury

Peg tile and plain tile repair on period property, valley linings that were put in decades ago, and chimney repointing where somebody has used a cement mix far too hard for the brick underneath it.

Signs your roof needs looking at

• Staining on the chimney breast in a bedroom
• Green streaks running down the wall below a gutter joint
• Daylight visible through the roof when you are in the loft
• A ridge tile sitting visibly proud of the line next to it
• Moss thick enough to hold water on a north facing slope