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Looking for a roofer in Gledhow? We cover LS8 from Harrogate with a free survey, a written quote and work that is done properly the first time.
Large Victorian villas and substantial inter-war detached houses set among mature trees on the slopes above the valley. Gledhow is roughly half an hour from Harrogate down the A61 or A658, and we are on that side of the county most weeks. Most Gledhow jobs begin with a call about a damp patch or a slate on the lawn, followed by a free look at the roof, usually with the drone up so you can see the pictures too.
Leaks traced to the source, slipped slates re-fixed, lead renewed. One visit, one written price, ten-year guarantee.
Find out more →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 →Storm damage and sudden leaks made safe the same day across Harrogate, Knaresborough and north Leeds. Proper repair after.
Find out more →Set among mature trees on the slopes above the valley, Gledhow is large Victorian villas, substantial inter-war detached houses, 1960s and 1970s properties and newer premium builds. The roofs are big and complicated: steep slate pitches with gables and turrets on the older houses, long hips and multiple valleys on the inter-war stock, and dormers and extensions added to most of them since. Gledhow roofing is detail-heavy work where a neat finish matters as much as a watertight one.
Lead does most of the failing. Deep valleys between gables split along the fold, parapet gutters on the villas block and overflow inside, stack flashings perish, and bay and porch roofs, usually small original lead flats, reach the point where patching is pointless. On the mid-century detached houses the leaks come from extension flat roofs with no real fall and conservatory abutments sealed with mastic. Where a villa has been divided into flats, the added soil vents, extractors and cable runs through the covering are each a potential entry point.
The tree cover is the other constant. Gledhow Valley is heavily wooded and the big mature specimens on the older plots drop enough leaf litter to block gutters, hoppers and valley outlets twice a year. On a three-storey house that goes unnoticed for weeks while water runs down the stonework. Shaded northern slopes hold moss thick enough to lift the slate laps, and once that happens driven rain gets in on a roof that looks perfectly sound from the ground.
We are twenty-five to thirty minutes away, straight down the A61 from Harrogate, so this is easy ground for us and surveys can usually be arranged within a couple of days. The inspection is free, we take drone photographs of the parts of the roof you cannot see, and we give honest advice on repair versus replacement with both prices in writing. Slate work, lead and valley renewal, bay and porch roofs, chimney repointing, flat roofing, fascias and rainwater goods, all guaranteed for ten years. Ring 0113 460 1042 to book a survey.
The larger detached houses in Gledhow have big, busy roofs: several hips, long valleys, dormers and extensions bolted on over the years. The work has to be neat and the materials matched, and we look after the drive and the garden while we are there.
Big period houses in Gledhow, whether still one home or now several flats, need proper scaffold and a roofer comfortable with old slate. Like-for-like replacement, stacks rebuilt where they have gone, dormers and bays sorted.
Detached homes in Gledhow from the 1960s onwards are coming up for full re-roofs, and in the meantime it is extension flat roofs and conservatory junctions that have never been flashed properly.
Detached homes in Gledhow from the 1960s onwards are coming up for full re-roofs, and in the meantime it is extension flat roofs and conservatory junctions that have never been flashed properly.
Anywhere around Gledhow Wood Road and Gledhow Valley Road, 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 Gledhow we also cover Oakwood LS8, Roundhay LS8, Chapeltown LS7, Moortown LS17, Chapel Allerton LS7, Potternewton LS7, 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 LS8.