A re-roof
Old pantiles stripped off and replaced with concrete interlocking tile, dormer and valley included.
Roofing in Orpington
New roofs and re-roofs on pitched tile. The old covering comes off down to the rafters, and what goes back on is photographed before it is covered.
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What a re-roof involves
A re-roof is the whole covering coming off and going back on. It is not a repair with more tiles. The old tiles, the battens and the felt come off down to the rafters, so the timber can be looked at properly, and then the roof is rebuilt in the order it was built the first time.
That is the only way to know what is under there. A roof that has been covered over rather than stripped can look new from the pavement and still be carrying rotten battens and torn felt, and the first you hear of it is a wet patch on a bedroom ceiling two winters later.
When it is a re-roof and not a repair
If tiles are slipping in more than one place, if the felt has gone brittle and torn at the eaves, and if the battens have rotted where the felt failed, the roof is telling you the same thing three ways. Patching each symptom costs less this month and more over five years. We say which it is when we look, and we put it in writing, because it is your money and your decision. Slipped tiles on an otherwise sound roof are a repair, and we will tell you so.
Tile
Most of what we lay is concrete interlocking tile, which is what most of the houses round Orpington were built with. Where a roof is clay plain tile or slate we match it. The tile on the roof above is a plain concrete interlocker running up to a stone chimney.
What a re-roof actually is
Four stages, in the order they happen. Each one gets photographed before the next one covers it.
Strip
The old tiles come off, then the battens, then the felt, down to the rafters. This is when you find out what state the timber is in. Rotten rafter ends and sagging purlins get dealt with now or never.
Felt
The underlay goes over the rafters, lapped downhill so anything that gets past the tiles runs out at the eaves and into the gutter, not into the loft.
Batten
New battens are fixed across the rafters at a spacing set by the tile, so each course laps the one below it by the amount the tile was designed for.
Lay
The tiles go on from the eaves up. Ridge and hip tiles finish the top and the corners, and the verges are closed so wind cannot get under the edge.
The same gable and dormer, before and after. The before is in the corner.
Another one, whole
The same roof from two positions on the scaffold, before and after. The before is in the corner of each.
The whole run
Old brown pantiles off, new grey interlocking tile on, across both pitches.
From the scaffold end
The same job from the other end of the scaffold, with the new tile run down to the eaves.
The eaves and the gutter are the same job
A re-roof finishes at the eaves, and the eaves is where the felt meets the gutter. Where the fascia has gone soft we replace it while the roof is open rather than hanging a new gutter on rotten timber. Guttering, fascias and downpipes have their own page.
Roofing in Orpington, Sevenoaks, Biggin Hill, Brasted, Westerham, Oxted and Knockholt, and the area around them. Where we work.
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Orpington, Kent, and the area around it.