Roofers and roof repairs in Tooting, SW17Tooting Becto the Broadway.
Tooting is mostly Edwardian, built in a rush between 1900 and 1914: long straight streets of terraces under Welsh slate, with the front gables, bays and decorative ridges of the period. Plus the Totterdown Fields estate, one of the first council estates in the country.
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Tooting’s roofs
What the Houses Are,and What Goes Wrong.
Edwardian Tooting
Terraces by the thousand, under slate, with a front gable, a bay window and a clay ridge, and a back addition on most. The valley behind the gable and the bay roof are the usual leaks; nail sickness across the main slopes is the usual state.
Totterdown Fields
The LCC cottage estate south of the Broadway, built 1903 to 1911 and now a conservation area. Cottage style houses under clay tiles and slate with a lot of small gables and the lead that goes with them. Like for like repair, done carefully.
Loft Conversions and Back Additions
Tooting has had a great many loft conversions and the dormers are now at the age where their flat roofs and lead fail. The back additions are usually low pitched and badly detailed where they meet the house.
The Streets and Their Roofs
Tooting is Victorian and Edwardian terraces almost end to end, slate roofs with shared valleys and stacks around Tooting Bec and the Broadway, Edwardian semis in Furzedown with clay tile and timber bays, and inter war houses towards Summerstown. Rear additions with small flat roofs and loft dormers are common and are where most of the leaks start.
Working in Tooting
Tooting is thirteen miles from the office and covered from the London line, 0203 507 1501, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Furzedown and parts of Tooting Bec are conservation areas. Almost every job needs pavement scaffold under a council licence and a parking suspension, both arranged before the start, and access to the back roofs is through the house.
What we are called to in Tooting
- Lead valleys behind Edwardian front gables
- Nail sickness on slate terraces
- Bay window roofs
- Dormer flat roofs on converted lofts
- Small gables and lead on Totterdown Fields cottages
What we do in Tooting
Roofing and Roof Repairs,Across Tooting.
Roof Repairs in Tooting
Most roofs do not need replacing. They need one thing fixing properly, and a straight answer about the rest.
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Slate Roofing in Tooting
Slate lasts decades and looks right on almost every period property. It only works if it is laid properly.
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Leadwork in Tooting
Lead is what keeps water out where a roof changes direction. Good leadwork outlives the roof around it.
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Roof repairs in Tooting
What Is WrongWith My Roof?
The six things Tooting 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 Tooting
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 Tooting
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 Tooting
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 Tooting
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 Tooting
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 Tooting
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.
Roofline replacement
Fascias and guttering
GRP flat roof
Extension roof
Clay tiles and ridge
Pitched roof
Strip and re felt
New roof
Tooting questions
QuestionsFrom Tooting.
Anything not covered here, call 01372 540 258 and ask. You will get a roofer, not a call centre.
Do you work on Totterdown Fields?
Yes. It is a conservation area, so like for like repair in matched clay, slate and lead.
Do you cover Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway?
Yes, and Furzedown, Tooting Graveney and over to Balham and Streatham.
Why does the roof over my bay window leak?
Bay roofs are small, low pitched and were built with the minimum of lead. A hundred years on the lead has split or pulled away. We re roof them properly.
Do I need planning permission for roof work in Tooting?
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 Tooting?
Yes. On the terraced streets in Tooting 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 13 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 Tooting,We Also Cover.
Tooting 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
Tooting
- Postcodes
- SW17
- Borough
- Wandsworth
- From our base
- 13 miles
Most asked for in Tooting
NearestRoofers in Balham Roofers in Earlsfield Tooting Bec · Tooting Broadway · Streatham · Mitcham
And every town in between. If yours is not listed, call 01372 540 258 and ask.
Free survey and quote
A Roof in Tooting?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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