Coastal Kent
Premier Roofing and Building Kent Ltd has become a trusted name in New Romney. Whether your roof has been damaged in a storm or it is simply time for an upgrade, we are here to make it stress free.
New Romney has a real mix, from older Marsh properties with mortar bedded ridges to newer estate housing where the original specification is now twenty years old.
Both come to us for the same reason. Something has started letting water in, and it is almost always a joint or an edge rather than the middle of a slope.
Salt off the Channel corrodes ferrous metal far faster than ordinary damp air. We have taken tiles off roofs in New Romney 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.
How we specify for each areaNew Romney has a real mix, from older Marsh properties with mortar bedded ridges to newer estate housing on its original specification. Both call us for the same reason, and it is almost always a joint or an edge.
Roof repairs in detailA joint between two things that move at different rates is where a roof leaks, and properly dressed lead lasts decades where repeated sealing lasts a season.
Leadwork in detailWhere a newer estate roof has reached the end of its first specification, replacing it is the point at which the coastal detailing can finally be put right.
New roofs in detailStorm damage is what most often brings New Romney to the phone out of hours. We stop the water first and quote the repair once the roof is safe.
Emergency repairs in detailLittlestone is in New Romney parish, less than two miles east, and part of it is a conservation area, designated in April 1990 and covering the northern end of Madeira Road, the Coast Road and the east end of St Andrew's Road. It holds a single listed building, the 1890 former water tower on Madeira Road. Inside that boundary a dormer or any other roof enlargement needs planning permission on an unlisted house, and re-cladding a wall in tile or timber is not permitted development either. Outside it, the ordinary rules apply. Worth knowing which side of the line a house sits before anything is ordered, and worth checking with Folkestone and Hythe District Council.
Greatstone is the bungalow village. A full count of the public energy certificates across every postcode around the centre puts bungalows at about 56 per cent of the stock, against roughly 8 per cent at Littlestone up the road, and loft conversions run about four times as common here as a result. That matters on a quote, because a bungalow carries the largest roof area for the floor space underneath it, and because a converted loft changes what the roof has to do. There is no conservation area and no listed building anywhere near, so re-roofing here is the straightforward version.
Why homeowners here call us
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