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Pitched and flat roofing in Oatlands (HG2): repairs, re-covers, chimney work and guttering from an insured local team with a written guarantee.
Oatlands is Edwardian and inter-war Harrogate south-east of the Stray, bay-fronted semis and larger detached houses on wide streets. This is where we are based, so a look at the roof is normally the same day or the day after you ring. The same handful of faults come up again and again on Oatlands roofs, and we know which of them need a repair and which are the roof telling you it is done.
The bay-fronted houses along Oatlands Drive and the streets facing the Stray have a specific weak point. A two-storey bay carries a small slated or leaded roof that meets the main wall, and on a great many of these houses that junction was formed in cement rather than with a proper lead flashing. Cement cracks, water tracks into the wall head and shows up as a stain in the front bedroom or above the bay window. Cutting in a proper lead flashing fixes it permanently; patching the cement buys a winter.
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 →Oatlands roofing is Edwardian and inter-war work. The houses along Oatlands Drive and the streets facing the Stray are bay-fronted with slate above and lead below; Hookstone Road and Hookstone Drive are 1930s hipped clay tile; and the larger detached houses on the Hookstone side have picked up dormers, extensions and conservatories over the years. Ask for roofers in Oatlands and the job is usually on a roof between ninety and a hundred and twenty years old that has never been fully stripped.
Bay roofs are the classic Oatlands leak. A two-storey bay has a small slated or leaded roof meeting the main wall, and where that junction was formed with cement rather than a proper lead flashing it eventually cracks and lets water into the front room ceiling. Above it, slates slip on the steep front pitch. On the inter-war houses the hip and ridge mortar has failed and the valley gutters are narrow enough to block with a single autumn's worth of leaves. Rear extension flat roofs, laid level rather than to a fall, pond and split.
The Stray is the local factor here. It keeps this side of town wide open, which is pleasant to look at and hard on any gable that faces it, because there is nothing between those roofs and the weather coming across. The mature trees along its edges do the rest, filling gutters and valleys with leaf litter every autumn and keeping the shaded slopes damp for months. Conservation cover across parts of the district also sets the standard for repairs: slate should be matched to what is there, lead should be lead, and cement should not be doing a job that lead was designed for.
Oatlands is five minutes from our base and on the same side of town, so we are past these streets constantly and a survey is rarely more than a day or two away. Small repairs are often done on the first visit, and where a bay flashing or a chimney needs doing properly we will price it against the alternative of patching so you can see why one lasts and the other does not. Free survey, written quote, ten-year workmanship guarantee. Roof repairs, re-roofs, flat roofing, chimney work, fascias, soffits and guttering across HG2. Call 0113 460 1042 or send the enquiry form.
Big period houses in Oatlands, 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.
The 1930s houses in Oatlands 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.
The larger detached houses in Oatlands 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.
On the terraces in Oatlands the chimneys are shared and so, often, are the gutters, so a problem next door soon turns up in your bedroom. Party-wall stacks, rotten timber gutters, slipped slates and soakers make up most of the work.
Roads we are on regularly in Oatlands include Oatlands Drive, Hookstone Road, Hookstone Drive, Wetherby Road, Leeds Road, Slingsby Walk, St Winifred's Avenue, York Road, Stray Rein and Oatlands Mount,, plus the streets running off them.
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 Oatlands we also cover Harrogate HG1, Pannal HG3, Starbeck HG2, Follifoot HG3, and everywhere else across the Harrogate district and Leeds.
Covered from Harrogate, on our doorstep.
Ring, describe what you can see, and we will sort the rest. Free survey, written quote and guaranteed work across HG2.