Roofers and roof repairs in Wandsworth, SW18Wandsworth, StreetAfter Victorian Street.
Wandsworth is the Victorian terrace at scale: the streets around the common, Southfields, the grid down towards the river. Slate roofs, shared chimneys, back additions and butterfly roofs, and a century of weather on all of it.
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Wandsworth’s roofs
What the Houses Are,and What Goes Wrong.
The Terraces
Tens of thousands of Victorian terraced houses under Welsh slate, with chimneys shared along the party walls and a back addition on most. The slate is often good; the nails have gone, which is nail sickness, and the lead in the valleys and around the stacks is on borrowed time.
Butterfly Roofs
A lot of the older Wandsworth terraces have the London butterfly roof, two slopes meeting in a central valley behind a front parapet. The central gutter takes every drop off both slopes and it is where these houses leak. Re lining it in lead is the job, and it is a job you cannot see from the street.
Back Additions and Loft Conversions
The back addition roof is usually flat or low pitched and detailed badly where it meets the house. And Wandsworth has had a huge number of loft conversions, so dormers and their flat roofs are a constant call.
The Streets and Their Roofs
Wandsworth is Victorian and Edwardian almost throughout: the terraces around the town and Southfields in slate with butterfly roofs and parapet gutters, larger houses around Wandsworth Common in slate and clay with lead dormers, and the newer riverside developments with flat roofs in felt and GRP. The butterfly roofs behind a parapet are where most of the leaks come from.
Working in Wandsworth
Wandsworth is fourteen miles from Leatherhead and covered from the London line, 0203 507 1501. The London Borough of Wandsworth has conservation areas around the town and the common, and terraced streets where the scaffold sits on the pavement under a council licence. Access to the roof is often from the rear, through the house or a neighbour, which we agree before the day.
What we are called to in Wandsworth
- Central valley gutters on butterfly roofs
- Nail sickness on slate terraces
- Back addition roofs leaking at the abutment
- Shared chimney stacks on party walls
- Dormer flat roofs on converted lofts
What we do in Wandsworth
Roofing and Roof Repairs,Across Wandsworth.
Roof Repairs in Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
What Is WrongWith My Roof?
The six things Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth
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.
Clay tiles and ridge
Pitched roof
Strip and re felt
New roof
Dormer and cladding
Loft conversion
Four pot stack
Chimney work
Wandsworth questions
QuestionsFrom Wandsworth.
Anything not covered here, call 01372 540 258 and ask. You will get a roofer, not a call centre.
What is a butterfly roof and why does mine leak?
Two slopes falling inward to a central gutter behind the front parapet. All the water off both slopes runs down that one lead gutter, and when the lead splits or the outlet blocks it comes through the top floor ceiling. We re line the gutter in new lead.
Do you cover Southfields and Wandsworth Common?
Yes, and Putney, Earlsfield and down to the river.
My chimney is shared with next door. Who fixes it?
Usually both households, split. We survey and photograph it and give a price that can be shared.
Do I need planning permission for roof work in Wandsworth?
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 Wandsworth?
Yes. On the terraced streets in Wandsworth 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 14 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 Wandsworth,We Also Cover.
Wandsworth 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
Wandsworth
- Postcodes
- SW18
- Borough
- Wandsworth
- From our base
- 14 miles
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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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