Independent roofers for Holt Park, working out of Harrogate. Leaks, storm damage, chimneys, gutters, flat roofs and new roofs, with plain advice on what actually needs doing.
Late 1960s and 1970s estate housing on the northern edge of the city, laid out around a shopping centre and open green space. Holt Park is roughly half an hour from Harrogate down the A61 or A658, and we are on that side of the county most weeks. The same handful of faults come up again and again on Holt Park roofs, and we know which of them need a repair and which are the roof telling you it is done.
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 →Built mostly in the late 1960s and 1970s around a shopping centre and open green space, Holt Park is estate housing on the northern rim of the city, with larger detached homes and later premium builds nearby along Holt Park Road and Holtdale Approach. The roofs are of their era: wide, often shallow-pitched, in concrete interlocking tile, with integral garages, porches and plenty of flat-roofed sections. Holt Park roofing is therefore a different job to the Victorian work a few miles south.
Roofs of this age and type fail in specific ways. Interlocking tiles are generally sound but their clips and nails corrode, so tiles work loose in wind; ridge tiles bedded in mortar crack along the line; and the original bitumen underfelt has perished and torn, which on a shallow pitch matters a great deal because there is less gravity helping the water off. Flat roofs over garages, porches and dormers are the biggest single category of repair work here, and a re-cover in fibreglass or EPDM with the falls corrected is the permanent answer rather than another patch.
The estate sits high and open on the city's northern edge, and the layout leaves long clear runs between blocks for the wind. Shallow pitches with mortar-bedded ridges do not enjoy that combination, and dry-fixing the ridge and verge is usually money well spent. Trees planted when the estate was built are now mature, so gutters fill each autumn and the shaded low-pitch slopes hold moss, which on a shallow roof holds water in the laps.
We are twenty-five minutes away down the A61 from Harrogate, so north Leeds is easy ground for us and surveys are usually a matter of days. The inspection is free, we photograph the roof by drone where it is not safe to walk, and the written quote covers both the repair and the full replacement so the decision stays with you. Repairs, re-roofs, dry-fix ridge and verge, flat roofing in fibreglass or EPDM, dormer work, chimneys, fascias, soffits and guttering, all guaranteed for ten years. Call 0113 460 1042.
The larger detached houses in Holt Park 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 Holt Park, 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 Holt Park 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.
The larger detached houses in Holt Park 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.
Anywhere around Holt Park Road and Holtdale Approach, 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 Holt Park we also cover Adel LS16, Cookridge LS16, Bramhope LS16, Ireland Wood LS16, Tinshill LS16, Lawnswood LS16, 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 LS16.