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Looking for a roofer in Linton? We cover LS22 from Harrogate with a free survey, a written quote and work that is done properly the first time.
Linton is a handful of expensive stone houses, converted farm buildings and old cottages in a fold of the Wharfe valley, with almost nothing built since the 1990s. Linton 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.
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 →There is not much of Linton, but what there is needs careful roofing. The village is a small cluster of stone houses, converted farm buildings and cottages on the far side of the Wharfe from Wetherby, and Linton roofing jobs almost always involve natural materials: stone slate, Welsh slate, lime mortar and hand-made clay ridge. Several properties are listed or sit inside the conservation area, so a like-for-like repair with reclaimed material is the only acceptable answer. Roofers in Linton who turn up with concrete interlocking tiles are in the wrong village.
Stone slate roofs fail from the fixings up. The slates themselves last centuries; the oak pegs, the battens and the torching underneath do not. What we see on Linton roofs is slipping in patches where the pegs have rotted, sagging between rafters where the load has been carried too long, and previous repairs made with mortar smeared over the joints. The barn conversions have a different problem: the roofs were re-covered quickly during conversion and the detailing at valleys, verges and rooflights was the part that got rushed.
The village sits low by the river, with open farmland on the Sicklinghall side and the beck running through. Damp air and shade from the mature trees mean heavy moss growth on north slopes, which holds water against the slate and speeds up the freeze-and-thaw damage. Gutters here fill with leaf and moss twice a year without fail. Clearing them and keeping the stone verges pointed is most of the maintenance a house in Linton actually needs.
Linton is fifteen to twenty minutes from us along the A661, so this is close-to-home work and we can usually get out to survey within a couple of days rather than a couple of weeks. Slate and stone slate roofing, roof repairs, chimney rebuilds and repointing, leadwork, guttering and conservation-sensitive re-roofs using reclaimed material sorted to match. We survey free, send drone photographs of what we have found, and put the price in writing before any work is agreed. Call 0113 460 1042 and we will arrange a visit.
Stone-built houses in Linton usually carry stone slate or Welsh slate on timbers that have done a century or more. The recurring jobs are slates that have split and slid, chimneys wanting lime repointing, and lead that has cracked along the folds.
On protected buildings in Linton 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.
Terraced roofs around Linton are simple shapes with awkward details: back gutters behind the stacks, parapet gutters holding water, and slates held on by rusting nails. We sort the cause rather than chase the drip.
Newer houses in Linton 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.
Anywhere around Linton Road and the bridge over the Wharfe, 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 Linton we also cover Collingham LS22, Wetherby LS22, Ainsty LS22, Bardsey LS17, Boston Spa LS23, Thorner LS14, 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 LS22.