Coastal Kent
About ten miles by road from our base at Shadoxhurst, Romney is one of the towns we cover most, for quick repairs and full re roofs alike.
Romney sits out on the Marsh, which means wind off the Channel and salt in the air. Both matter more than most homeowners expect, because salt corrodes ferrous fixings far faster than ordinary damp air.
We have taken tiles off roofs around here after nothing more than a breezy week, purely because the nails holding them had rusted through. That is a specification failure rather than a tile failure, which is why we quote stainless fixings on exposed work as standard rather than as an upgrade.
Salt off the Channel corrodes ferrous metal far faster than ordinary damp air. We have taken tiles off roofs in 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 areaMost Romney repairs we are called to start at a fixing rather than a tile. We have taken sound tiles off roofs here after nothing worse than a breezy week, because the nails holding them had rusted through in the salt air.
Roof repairs in detailA full re roof on the Marsh is quoted with stainless fixings as standard, not as an upgrade line at the bottom. That is the single biggest difference between a Romney roof that lasts and one that comes back.
New roofs in detailStripping back is the only way to see what the salt has done to the battens and the fixings underneath. Retiling over the top hides it for a season and no longer.
Felt and batten in detailRomney is about ten miles from our base at Shadoxhurst, which is close enough for the twenty four hour call out to mean something out on the Marsh. Made watertight first, repaired properly once the weather lets us.
Emergency repairs in detailWhy homeowners here call us
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