Downham Market · Norfolk
Pitched roofs in Downham Market
Tile and slate pitched roofing across Downham Market, repaired properly or stripped and re-covered when repairing it would only buy you a season.
Pitched roofs in Downham Market
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Pitched roofs on Downham Market property
Georgian and Victorian brick with slate and clay pantile in town, and bungalows, farmhouses and barns across the fen villages around it. That mix is why a pitched roof job here is never quite the same twice.
Pitched roofs on Downham Market roofs
The split is very clear here. In town it is slate and pantile work, valleys and chimney leadwork on older brick property. Out on the fen it is ridge and verge, storm damage, and re-covering long low roofs that have taken forty years of wind. We also do a lot of flat roof replacement on the extensions that were added to the bungalows in the seventies and eighties.
What decides between a repair and a re-cover is almost never the tiles. It is what is underneath them. If the battens are sound and the underlay has not perished, we will patch and move on. If the felt has torn at the eaves and the batten ends are soft, then re-fixing tiles onto it is money thrown away and we will say so.
It matters here because this is some of the most exposed ground in the east of England, with the wind coming off the washes and nothing to break it., and a pitched roof that is losing its fixings sheds tiles fastest on exactly that kind of exposure.
What the job includes
- New lead soakers and flashings where the roof meets a wall, chimney or valley
- New treated battens and a breathable membrane on any full re-cover
- Dry ridge and dry verge systems, mechanically fixed rather than bedded in mortar
- Eaves protection, ventilation and the guttering reset properly at the end
Signs to look for
- Daylight visible through the roof from inside the loft
- Sagging along the ridge or between the rafters
- Damp patches on upstairs ceilings that come back every time it rains
Repair or re-cover in Downham Market
Half the pitched roofs we are asked to look at have already been repaired by somebody else. Mortar smeared along a verge, a tile bedded in cement, foam sprayed underneath. None of it is cheaper in the end, because it all has to come off before the real repair can start, and the timber underneath has usually had another two wet winters.
Getting to you in Downham Market
We work across the fen and the Norfolk border every week, so Downham Market surveys are usually quick to book. We cover the town and Denver, Nordelph, Stow Bardolph, Ten Mile Bank, Hilgay, Southery, Barroway Drove and West Dereham.
- Denver
- Nordelph
- Stow Bardolph
- Ten Mile Bank
- Hilgay
- Southery
- Barroway Drove
- West Dereham
Our work
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FAQs
Pitched roofs in Downham Market: your questions
Do I need scaffolding?
For any full re-cover, and for most work above single storey, yes. It is the only safe way to work and it goes in the written quote as a line you can see, not hidden inside the price.
Can you match the tiles on an older property?
Usually yes. We can source most common clay and concrete profiles, and where a pattern is out of production we will salvage and re-lay the sound tiles on the elevation that faces the road and use the new ones out of sight.
Do you do pitched roofs in Downham Market?
Yes. Downham Market is one of the towns we cover as standard, along with Denver, Nordelph, Stow Bardolph and the villages around them.
What does a pitched roofs job in Downham Market start with?
A free survey. We come out, get on the roof where it is safe to, photograph what we find and send you a written quote. There is no charge for that and no obligation afterwards.
Pitched roofs in Downham Market
Call 07934 565 449 or send the form and we will come out, look at it properly and put a price in writing.