Roofers and roof repairs in Battersea, SW11Battersea, From theJunction to the River.
Battersea is Victorian terraces around Clapham Junction and the park, mansion blocks along the edges, and the newer buildings down by the river. Slate, lead and flat roofs, and a lot of shared chimneys.
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Battersea’s roofs
What the Houses Are,and What Goes Wrong.
The Terraces
Around the Junction, across the Shaftesbury estate and up towards the common, the Victorian terrace under Welsh slate with shared chimneys and back additions. Nail sickness, failed lead and back addition roofs are the daily work here.
Mansion Blocks and Larger Buildings
Battersea has a lot of Victorian and Edwardian mansion flats, and the roofs on those are big, often with parapets, lead flats and internal gutters that need a roofer used to working at height on a shared building. We do this work for freeholders and management companies as well as owners.
Newer Battersea
Along the river and around the power station there is a great deal of recent building with flat roofs, and the older post war estates have concrete tiles and flat roofs of their own now at the end of their life.
The Streets and Their Roofs
Battersea is Victorian terraces and mansion blocks: the streets off Lavender Hill and around the Shaftesbury Estate in slate with parapets and butterfly roofs, larger houses around Battersea Park in slate and clay, and the blocks and newer buildings towards Nine Elms with flat roofs in felt, asphalt and GRP. Parapet gutters and shared valleys are the usual source of a leak here.
Working in Battersea
Battersea is fifteen miles from Leatherhead and covered from the London line, 0203 507 1501. It is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, with conservation areas around the park and the Shaftesbury Estate. Scaffold on these streets needs a council licence and often a parking suspension, and on a mansion block the work is arranged with the managing agent and the residents.
What we are called to in Battersea
- Nail sickness on slate terraces
- Back addition roofs leaking at the abutment
- Parapet gutters and lead flats on mansion blocks
- Shared chimney stacks on party walls
- Flat roofs on post war and newer buildings
What we do in Battersea
Roofing and Roof Repairs,Across Battersea.
Roof Repairs in Battersea
Most roofs do not need replacing. They need one thing fixing properly, and a straight answer about the rest.
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Flat Roofing in Battersea
Extensions, garages, dormers and commercial roofs. Laid to fall, detailed properly at the edges.
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Leadwork in Battersea
Lead is what keeps water out where a roof changes direction. Good leadwork outlives the roof around it.
Read moreAlso in BatterseaRoofing Slate Roofing Tiled Roofing New Roofs Chimney Repairs Fascias, Soffits & Guttering
Roof repairs in Battersea
What Is WrongWith My Roof?
The six things Battersea customers call us about most. Choose the one you can see and we will tell you what it usually is.
Likely cause
Usually a slipped or cracked tile, or failed lead around a chimney or valley. The stain is rarely under the hole: water runs along a rafter before it drops. We trace it back rather than guess.
Usually the job is
Roof Repairs in Battersea
Likely cause
The nails or the tile clips have gone, and if one has moved the ones around it are usually loose too. Worth doing quickly, because the gap lets wind under the rest of the row.
Usually the job is
Roof Repairs in Battersea
Likely cause
Nearly always the lead flashing where the stack meets the roof, or open mortar joints in the stack itself. It gets blamed on the roof and it is almost never the roof.
Usually the job is
Chimney Repairs in Battersea
Likely cause
Either blocked, or sagging so the fall runs the wrong way, or the joints have opened. Left alone it soaks the wall below and you get damp inside.
Usually the job is
Fascias, Soffits & Guttering in Battersea
Likely cause
Standing water means the falls are wrong or the outlet is blocked. Bubbles mean water is already under the covering. Both are fixable, but not by patching over the top.
Usually the job is
Flat Roofing in Battersea
Likely cause
If you can see light you can get water. Sometimes it is one missing slate, sometimes the felt underneath has perished and the whole slope is nearing the end of its life. We will tell you which.
Usually the job is
Roof Repairs in Battersea
How it works
From a Photo on Your Phoneto a Finished Roof.
Call or Send a Photo
Call the office or send a picture from your phone. Even a shot taken from the garden usually tells us what we are dealing with.
A Proper Inspection
We inspect the roof properly, inside and out where we need to, and take pictures of anything you cannot see.
A Written Quote
One price, itemised, no obligation. If a repair will do the job we will say so rather than sell you a new roof.
The Work Itself
Scaffold where it is needed, site kept tidy, photo updates as we go, and everything cleared when we finish.
“The team from Marley roofing specialist repaired guttering around property were excellent professional and extremely helpful would highly recommend”
Recent work
Roofs We HaveFinished Nearby.
Dormer and cladding
Loft conversion
Four pot stack
Chimney work
Re roof in progress
Semi detached
Hipped slate roof
Pitched roof
Battersea questions
QuestionsFrom Battersea.
Anything not covered here, call 01372 540 258 and ask. You will get a roofer, not a call centre.
Do you work on mansion blocks for management companies?
Yes. Surveys with photographs and a written report, then a price the freeholder or managing agent can put to the leaseholders.
Do you cover Clapham Junction and the Shaftesbury estate?
Yes, and Battersea Park, Nine Elms and up to Clapham Common.
Can you get to a Battersea leak quickly?
We run to South West London most days. A live leak is usually seen the same or next day, and the mobile is answered 24 hours.
Do I need planning permission for roof work in Battersea?
For a repair or a re roof in the same material, normally not. A listed building needs consent for most roof work, and in a conservation area a change of material on a roof seen from the street may need permission from the borough. We check the status of your house before we quote and tell you what applies.
Do you arrange the scaffold and access in Battersea?
Yes. On the terraced streets in Battersea the scaffold usually has to sit on the pavement, which needs a licence from the council and sometimes a parking suspension; the scaffold company applies and the lead time is built into the programme. We are 15 miles away in Leatherhead, under an hour outside the rush, and the London line, 0203 507 1501, comes straight through to the same team.
Nearby
Around Battersea,We Also Cover.
Battersea on the diagram of where we work. Point at any town for its postcodes, or open its page.
A diagram of where we work, not a map. Positions are approximate.
Roofers in
Battersea
- Postcodes
- SW11
- Borough
- Wandsworth
- From our base
- 15 miles
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And every town in between. If yours is not listed, call 01372 540 258 and ask.
Free survey and quote
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A picture from the ground is usually enough for us to tell you what we are looking at. The survey and the written quote are free, and there is no obligation on either.
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