Roofing service
Ridge and hip tiles replaced and mechanically fixed, plus repointing.
Wind pulls upwards on a roof rather than pressing down, and the suction is fiercest at the ridge, the verges and the eaves. That is why storm damage almost never starts in the middle of a slope.
BS 5534 was revised in 2014 so that ridge and hip tiles must be mechanically fixed rather than held on with mortar alone. Plenty of roofs around here still rely on bedding mortar that was never designed for the exposure it now sits in, which is why we replace more ridge tiles than almost anything else.
Included in this service
Salt off the Channel corrodes ferrous metal far faster than ordinary damp air. We have taken tiles off roofs on the coast 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 area
