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Looking for a roofer in Thorner? We cover LS14 from Harrogate with a free survey, a written quote and work that is done properly the first time.
Thorner is a conservation-area village in a hollow, stone cottages and farmhouses along the beck, larger period houses on the rises and a little modern building on the edges. Thorner 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.
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 →Thorner sits in a hollow with the beck running through it, and the village core is a conservation area of stone cottages, farmhouses and larger period houses along Kirk Lane, Carr Lane and Main Street. Thorner roofing is traditional work: random stone slate and Welsh slate, hand-made clay ridge, lime mortar, stone verges and tall stacks. A repair here has to be made with reclaimed material sorted to the right sizes, because a patch of new tile on a graded stone slate roof is visible from the lane for the rest of its life.
Old roofs like these fail from underneath. Oak pegs rot, torching drops away, battens soften and slates slip in groups, usually on the north slope first. Sagging between rafters is common and often needs the timbers supported before the covering goes back. Chimneys are the other regular: lime pointing washes out over decades, flaunching cracks and water tracks down the flue to show on a chimney breast inside. Roof repairs in Thorner are generally about restoring an original roof, not replacing it.
The hollow keeps the village damp. Mist lingers well into the morning, the beck and the mature trees along it hold moisture in the air, and north-facing stone slate carries thick moss for most of the year. Porous stone that stays wet suffers badly in a hard frost, so careful moss removal, never with a pressure washer, and keeping gutters clear and stone verges soundly pointed is the maintenance that actually protects these roofs. Leaf fall from the trees round the churchyard blocks gutters and valleys every autumn without fail.
Thorner is twenty-five to thirty minutes from us across the A661 and the A58, which puts it well within the area we cover from Harrogate every week. Stone slate and Welsh slate roofing, conservation-sensitive repairs using matched reclaimed material, chimney rebuilds and lime repointing, leadwork, guttering, fascias and full re-roofs. Free survey, drone photographs of the whole roof, a written price before anything is agreed and a ten-year guarantee on our workmanship. Phone 0113 460 1042.
Cottages and farmhouses around Thorner were built to shrug off weather, and mostly they still do. When the roof does need attention it tends to be re-fixing slates on fresh battens, sorting a valley, or re-bedding a ridge, always in the right materials.
Listed buildings and conservation streets in Thorner come with rules, and rightly so. Matched slate, lime rather than cement, lead worked traditionally, and a clear word from us about whether consent is needed before we quote. It is the kind of work we like doing well.
On the terraces in Thorner 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.
The modern estates in Thorner 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 Kirk Lane and Carr 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 Thorner we also cover Bardsey LS17, Scarcroft LS14, Whinmoor LS14, Scholes LS15, Barwick-in-Elmet LS15, Linton LS22, 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 LS14.