Slipped Slates • Failed Valleys • Lead At The Stack
Roof Repairs Eastbourne
Most leaks begin at a junction: the lead at a chimney stack, a valley between two slopes, the mortar on a ridge, or the flat roof over the back. The mark on your ceiling is usually some way from the hole itself, which is why we start on the roof rather than in the bedroom.
Every repair starts with a free roof check, and a small fault gets called a small fault.
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We Find It, Then We Fix It
A leak rarely shows itself where it began. Water gets in at a junction, lands on a batten or a rafter, and travels along it until something stops it - which is why the stain on the ceiling can be a metre or more from the fault, and why chasing the stain is the slow way to find anything.
Working that out is the job, and it is what we do first. We come out, get up on the roof and trace the water back to where it is really getting in - the lead at a chimney, a valley, cracked mortar, a rusted nail, or a flat roof holding water. Then you get a straight answer on what your roof needs and what it will cost to put right.
Slipped slates, tired lead, a valley that has given up, or a damp patch two people have already been paid to find - all of it ordinary work for us, and a small fault gets called a small fault. The roof check is free and you are under no obligation. Ring 01323 33 55 33.
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What you get from us
What A Repair Here Involves
It starts with a free roof check
The free roof check is the first step for every job on this page. We go up and look at your roof properly, because that is the only way to tell you whether it is one slate or a whole valley.
The entry point, not the stain
We put the repair where the water got in, not where it showed, so you are not paying for the same leak twice. Closing up the wrong spot is how you end up paying three times for one leak.
A small job gets called a small job
Two slates and a clip is two slates and a clip. We will not talk it up into a re-roof, and if your roof is fine we will say so and leave it alone.
Roof Repairs We Take On
Pitched and flat roof repairs across Eastbourne, Hailsham and Polegate:
- Leak tracing and repair - we find where your water is really getting in, and fix it there rather than where the stain is.
- Slipped, cracked and missing slates - matched to your roof and fixed back properly, so you are not looking at the same gap next winter.
- Lead and flashing repairs - the lead at your chimney and where the roof meets a wall, renewed properly rather than sealed over.
- Valley repairs - the channel between two slopes relined and the tiles either side re-laid, so it stops soaking the ceiling below.
- Ridge and verge - loose, rocking ridge tiles re-bedded or dry-fixed before one comes off in a gale.
- Storm damage - slates off after a bad night? We will make it good and check the rest of the slope while we are up there.
While it is actually running: move what you can, get a bucket under it, and if it is anywhere near a light fitting turn that circuit off at the consumer unit. Then ring, and somebody will come and look at it properly.
Common questions
Roof Repair Questions We Get Asked
The fault decides it, not the size of the house. A slate or two back in place is quick work. A valley that needs relining, lead at the stack that has to come off and be renewed, or a flat roof over the back that has reached the end is another order of work, and whether it needs a scaffold moves it again. The free roof check is where the figure comes from.
Because water travels before it drops. It gets in at a junction, most often the lead around the stack on a slate terrace or a valley on a thirties semi, then runs along the top of a batten or down a rafter until something stops it. The stain marks where it came off the timber, not where it got in, and the repair has to go to the second of those.
Storm damage generally is, and wear and age generally are not; that is the line most refused claims fall on. Slates taken off in a named storm are one thing. A valley that has been thinning for fifteen years and finally let go in the same week is another, and an insurer will usually tell the two apart. The free roof check will tell you which of the two you have.
Because the last two repairs went where the stain was. On a slate terrace the water can get in at the back of the chimney stack and come through a ceiling on the far side of the room. On a thirties semi it can get in at the top of a valley and show at the bottom of a wall. Finding the entry point is the job; sealing over the stain is what has already been tried twice.
The south-westerly off the sea works on one slope of every roof in the town and leaves the other in its lee. What lets go is usually not the slate but the nail or clip holding it, and once one has gone the slates around it have less to hold on to. Those go back with new fixings rather than a smear of sealant, and the rest of that slope is checked for the same fault.
Usually, and it is one of the commonest calls from the bungalows out at Willingdon and Polegate. Water that sits on a felt roof with no fall to the outlet finds the joint where the flat roof meets the pitched one, and that abutment is where the repair generally goes. Whether the felt itself is worth keeping is settled at the free roof check, and if it is not, the flat roofing page has what a new one involves.
Towns we cover
Roof Repairs Across Eastbourne
We are roofers in Eastbourne working across Meads, Old Town, Upperton, Hampden Park, Langney and Sovereign Harbour, and out to Hailsham, Polegate and Willingdon. A leak that started this morning, or a slope you have been watching since the winter - either way, get us out to look at it. The roof check is free, there is no obligation, and if it does not need doing we will tell you. Ring 01323 33 55 33.
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