From roof cleaning to new flat roofs, we have completed dozens of jobs in Dymchurch. Our local knowledge means we can respond quickly and offer tailored solutions that last.
Dymchurch is about as exposed as Kent gets. Roofs here take the weather from the sea first and everything else second, so ridge tiles, verges and eaves are usually where the trouble starts.
Wind pulls upwards on a roof rather than pressing down, and the suction is fiercest exactly at those edges. It is why we replace more ridge tiles than almost anything else on this stretch of coast.
Two roofs, half an hour apart, two specifications
Sheltered, inland Ashford
Galvanised fixings
Perfectly sound here, and cheaper. Spending more would be spending for the sake of it.
Exposed, Lydd and Dymchurch
Stainless fixings
Quoted as standard rather than as an upgrade, because the cheaper option does not survive out here.
Salt off the Channel corrodes ferrous metal far faster than ordinary damp air. We have taken tiles off roofs in Dymchurch after nothing more than a breezy week, purely because the nails holding them had rusted through. That is a specification failure, not a tile failure.
If a roofer quotes the same specification for a Lydd bungalow as for a sheltered terrace in town, they either do not know the difference or have not priced for it.