Roofers and roof repairs in Clapham, SW4Clapham, Old Townto the Common.
Clapham has Georgian houses around Old Town and the Common, then the Victorian terraces that fill everything between, and the mansion blocks along the Common's edges. A conservation area for much of it, and slate and lead almost throughout.
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Clapham’s roofs
What the Houses Are,and What Goes Wrong.
Old Town and the Common
Georgian and early Victorian houses, many listed, under slate with parapets, hidden gutters and lead flats. These need like for like repair with matched slate and lead formed properly, and a roofer who knows that the gutter behind the parapet is where the trouble is.
The Victorian Streets
Clapham North, Clapham Park and the grid between the Common and the high street: terraces under Welsh slate, shared chimneys, back additions, and a lot of the butterfly roofs with a central valley that leak at that valley.
Mansion Blocks
Along the Common and the main roads, Victorian and Edwardian mansion flats with big roofs, parapets and internal gutters. We do this work for freeholders and managing agents as well as individual owners.
The Streets and Their Roofs
Clapham Old Town and the roads around the common are Georgian and Victorian, slate roofs with parapet gutters, lead flats and dormers, many of them listed. Abbeville Village and the streets towards Clapham South are Victorian and Edwardian terraces in slate with shared valleys, and Clapham North mixes terraces with converted flats and small blocks with flat roofs.
Working in Clapham
Clapham is fifteen miles from the office and covered from the London line, 0203 507 1501, in the London Borough of Lambeth. A large part of Clapham is a conservation area and a good deal of it is listed, so repairs are like for like and consent is checked before anything changes. Terraced streets mean pavement scaffold under a council licence, planned around parking.
What we are called to in Clapham
- Parapet gutters and lead flats on Georgian houses
- Central valleys on butterfly roofs
- Nail sickness on Victorian slate
- Back addition roofs leaking at the abutment
- Shared chimneys on terraces
What we do in Clapham
Roofing and Roof Repairs,Across Clapham.
Roof Repairs in Clapham
Most roofs do not need replacing. They need one thing fixing properly, and a straight answer about the rest.
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Leadwork in Clapham
Lead is what keeps water out where a roof changes direction. Good leadwork outlives the roof around it.
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Slate Roofing in Clapham
Slate lasts decades and looks right on almost every period property. It only works if it is laid properly.
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Roof repairs in Clapham
What Is WrongWith My Roof?
The six things Clapham 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 Clapham
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 Clapham
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 Clapham
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 Clapham
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 Clapham
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 Clapham
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.
Hipped slate roof
Pitched roof
Slate roof stripped
Re slate
GRP flat roof, in progress
Rear extension
Flat roof stripped
Flat roof
Clapham questions
QuestionsFrom Clapham.
Anything not covered here, call 01372 540 258 and ask. You will get a roofer, not a call centre.
Do you work in the Clapham conservation areas?
Yes. Like for like repair in matched reclaimed slate and new lead, which is what the conservation officer wants and what these roofs need.
Do you cover Clapham North and Clapham Park?
Yes, and Clapham Common, Old Town, Stockwell and down to Balham.
Can you do a roof survey before I buy a house in Clapham?
Yes. Photographs of every slope and every detail, and a written view of what it needs and roughly when.
Do I need planning permission for roof work in Clapham?
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 Clapham?
Yes. On the terraced streets in Clapham 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 Clapham,We Also Cover.
Clapham 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
Clapham
- Postcodes
- SW4
- Borough
- Lambeth
- From our base
- 15 miles
Most asked for in Clapham
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And every town in between. If yours is not listed, call 01372 540 258 and ask.
Free survey and quote
A Roof in Clapham?Call Us.
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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- 0203 507 1501
- Leatherhead
- 01372 540 258
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