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Roofing for Manston and the rest of LS15. We arrive when we say we will, quote on paper, and leave a ten-year written guarantee behind.
Manston is comfortable inter-war east Leeds: bay-fronted semis, hipped roofs, long back gardens and post-war infill running out towards the old aerodrome land. Manston 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 Manston Drive and Cross Gates 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.
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 →Bay-fronted semis with hipped roofs are what defines this corner of east Leeds. Manston roofers spend most of their time on inter-war housing off Manston Drive, Manston Lane and Cross Gates Lane, plus the post-war estate building that filled the land behind it. Hipped roofs have more edges than gabled ones, which means more hip tiles bedded in mortar, more places for that mortar to fail, and more lead at the abutments where the rear extension meets the main slope. Manston roofing work is usually detail work rather than whole-roof work.
The three regulars are hip tile slippage, cracked chimney flaunching and porch roofs. The mortar bedding the hip tiles on a 1930s roof has typically been repointed once and is now due again; when it goes the tile creeps down towards the gutter and takes the ones below with it. Chimney stacks on these houses are tall and often unused, so nobody looks at them until damp shows on a bedroom wall. Porch and bay roofs, usually small lead or felt areas, get ignored entirely and are a very common source of a leak people blame on the main roof.
Manston sits on fairly open ground on the eastern edge of the built-up area, with the old aerodrome land and the industrial estates beyond. There is little shelter from the east, so driving rain hits the gable walls hard and finds any gap in the verge pointing. Keeping the verges sound and the gutters running is the practical defence, and both are cheap jobs done from a ladder or a small tower.
We come across from Harrogate on the A1(M) and cut in on the A64, which makes Manston a straightforward run of around forty minutes and an area we are in most weeks. Roof repairs, full re-roofs, hip and ridge work, chimney repairs, leadwork, flat roofs over bays and extensions, fascias, soffits and guttering. Free survey with drone photographs so you can see the roof for yourself, a written quote with no pressure and no return sales visit, and a ten-year workmanship guarantee. Ring 0113 460 1042.
The 1930s houses in Manston 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 Manston 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 Manston 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 Manston 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 Manston Drive and Cross Gates 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 Manston we also cover Austhorpe LS15, Cross Gates LS15, Swarcliffe LS14, Barwick-in-Elmet LS15, Killingbeck LS14, Whitkirk 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.