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Roofing for Barwick-in-Elmet and the rest of LS15. We arrive when we say we will, quote on paper, and leave a ten-year written guarantee behind.
The maypole village keeps a core of cottages and farmhouses, ringed by comfortable detached estates built from the 1960s onwards. Barwick-in-Elmet is roughly half an hour from Harrogate down the A61 or A658, and we are on that side of the county most weeks. If you live around Potterton Lane and Chapel Lane, we have very likely driven past your house on the way to another one. Ring for a free survey and a written quote with no pressure attached.
Fibreglass, EPDM and torch-on felt for extensions, garages, dormers and bays. Laid to fall so water actually leaves.
Find out more →Welsh slate on the Victorian villas, stone slate on the dales cottages, clay and concrete on the estates. Matched, not approximated.
Find out more →Repointing, rebuilds, pots, cowls, lead trays and flashings on the tall stacks Harrogate is full of. Removals below the line too.
Find out more →Rotten boards out, UPVC or timber in, vents kept clear. Done alongside the gutters so the scaffold is only up once.
Find out more →Cast iron, aluminium and UPVC gutters fitted, refalled, cleared and repaired. Hoppers, downpipes and gulleys included.
Find out more →Storm damage and sudden leaks made safe the same day across Harrogate, Knaresborough and north Leeds. Proper repair after.
Find out more →The maypole village keeps a proper old core, and that is where the interesting roofing is. Heritage stone cottages, listed and conservation buildings and period terraces cluster around Main Street, Chapel Lane and Potterton Lane, mostly under stone slate or Welsh slate with tall stone stacks. Spreading out from there are the detached estates built from the 1960s to the present day in concrete and clay tile. Roofing in Barwick-in-Elmet means moving between those two worlds, often on neighbouring jobs.
Old roofs here fail at the fixings and the details rather than in the middle of a slope. Nails corrode, pegs give way, slates slip, and the lead in valleys and around stacks reaches the end of its life having been patched with mastic a couple of times first. Stone slate needs regrading when it is re-laid, not just slotting back. On the modern housing the calls are for loose ridges, failed verges, leaking conservatory junctions and garage flat roofs that have blistered and split.
The village stands on a hill in open Elmet countryside with hardly any shelter from the east. Exposed gable ends and tall stacks take the weather, and the older properties with their original lime mortar need that mortar maintained rather than replaced with hard cement, which traps moisture and blows the stone face off. Conservation rules apply to a fair slice of the village, so we survey with that in mind and say up front where reclaimed materials will be needed.
We reach Barwick from Harrogate in about half an hour via the A1(M) and the Aberford road, so it is an easy area for us to get out to at short notice. Repairs, re-roofs, chimney repairs, flat roofing, fascias, soffits and guttering are all covered, and where a property is listed or in the conservation area we price for the right materials from the beginning rather than adding them later. Free survey with photographs, a written quote and a ten-year workmanship guarantee. Phone 0113 460 1042 to get a date booked.
Cottages and farmhouses around Barwick-in-Elmet were built to shrug off weather, and mostly they still do. When the roof does need attention it tends to be re-fixing slates on fresh battens, sorting a valley, or re-bedding a ridge, always in the right materials.
On protected buildings in Barwick-in-Elmet our approach is repair first: keep every sound slate, make up the shortfall with reclaimed stock of the same size and thickness, and put the lead back the way it was meant to be.
On the terraces in Barwick-in-Elmet the chimneys are shared and so, often, are the gutters, so a problem next door soon turns up in your bedroom. Party-wall stacks, rotten timber gutters, slipped slates and soakers make up most of the work.
The modern estates in Barwick-in-Elmet are mostly interlocking concrete tile with dry-fix systems. The faults tend to be small, annoying and windy, and we fix them quickly with matching parts.
Anywhere around Potterton Lane and Chapel Lane, or the streets behind them, is covered.
Recognise one of those? Ring 0113 460 1042 or book a free survey and we will come and look, normally within a few days.
From Barwick-in-Elmet we also cover Scholes LS15, Manston LS15, Swarcliffe LS14, Austhorpe LS15, Whinmoor LS14, Cross Gates LS15, and everywhere else across Leeds and the Harrogate district.
Covered from Harrogate, around half an hour away.
Ring, describe what you can see, and we will sort the rest. Free survey, written quote and guaranteed work across LS15.