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Looking for a roofer in Carlton? We cover LS19 from Harrogate with a free survey, a written quote and work that is done properly the first time.
A small farming settlement above the airport, stone cottages and farmhouses with a few modern infill houses tucked among them. Carlton is roughly half an hour from Harrogate down the A61 or A658, and we are on that side of the county most weeks. The age of the house changes the materials, not the method: we survey properly, explain it in plain words, quote in writing and guarantee the work.
Full strip and re-cover on new battens and breathable membrane. Slate, stone or tile to suit the house and the street.
Find out more →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 →Storm damage and sudden leaks made safe the same day across Harrogate, Knaresborough and north Leeds. Proper repair after.
Find out more →Small, high and still largely agricultural, Carlton sits above Yeadon and the airport with stone farmhouses and cottages along Carlton Lane and Bayton Lane and only a limited amount of modern infill among them. Roofing in Carlton is mostly traditional work: stone slate and Welsh slate laid on old timbers, stone stacks that were built tall, and farm outbuildings standing alongside the houses. There is no dense housing up here, so jobs tend to be individual properties rather than whole rows, and each one usually has its own history of alterations to work out first.
Because the buildings are old and the roofs have usually been repaired more than once, the first job is often working out what is actually underneath. Battens softened by decades of damp, mixed fixings, slate laid over slate, and previous patches in cement rather than lead are all common. The repeat repairs are slipped and delaminated slates, rusted valley linings, lime pointing on stacks and lead work around chimneys that has been sealed rather than dressed. On outbuildings, corrugated sheeting and rooflights are usually the weak point.
Sitting on the moor edge above the valley, Carlton takes wind from every direction with almost nothing to break it, and the roofs here get more storm damage per property than anywhere sheltered. Ridge stones, verge details and pots move, and once one has lifted the rest of the line is vulnerable. It is one of the areas where we would genuinely rather look at a roof in early autumn than be called out to it in January.
We are about half an hour from Carlton, running out of Harrogate on the A658 towards the airport, so it is an easy area for us to reach when the weather has done something overnight. Repairs, re-roofs, barn and outbuilding roofs, chimney work, lead work and guttering are all covered, and we are properly equipped for stone slate rather than substituting a modern tile that will look wrong on the building. Free survey, photographs of what we find and a written price before we start. Ring 0113 460 1042.
The 1930s houses in Carlton have reached the age where the original roof covering, the cement-bedded ridges and the felt all fail within a few years of each other. We repair where a repair is honest and quote a full re-cover where it is not.
Post-war housing in Carlton is mostly concrete tile that has gone porous, brittle felt and fascias that have rotted behind the guttering. Re-roofs are common at this age and we do them with breathable membrane, dry verges and proper ventilation.
Newer houses in Carlton still have roof problems, just different ones: dry-verge caps lifting, ridges that were never bedded properly, and snagging the builder walked away from. We put the details right and take over where the warranty ran out.
The modern estates in Carlton 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 Carlton Lane and Bayton 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 Carlton we also cover Guiseley LS20, Rawdon LS19, Yeadon LS19, Otley LS21, Pool-in-Wharfedale LS21, Arthington LS21, 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 LS19.