Garage Roofing in Aldershot

Right now the garage is the room you avoid: a bucket under one corner, boxes lifted onto pallets, damp air and a stain creeping across the ceiling. After a proper re-roof it is dry storage, a workshop, a car space you can leave a bike in without wrapping it.

Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs and still answers the phone himself, and the same 25-year written workmanship guarantee that backs our new roof replacement services Aldershot covers a garage roof too.

Call 07428 300474 any time for a free survey and a fixed price in writing.

Garage roofing in Aldershot usually comes down to one question: does the deck under the covering still have life in it, or has water been sitting in it for years. That answer decides everything else.

Garage Roof Repairs

Most garage roofs fail at the edges and the joints, not in the middle. Trims work loose. Water tracks back under the lap. The felt splits at a corner where it was stretched over a sharp arris years ago, and the leak shows up three feet away inside. That is the awkward part of a repair: the wet patch and the fault are rarely in the same place.

So we open it up and look. Sometimes the timber deck is sound and a proper repair to a lap, a trim or an upstand is the honest answer. We say so. If a smaller repair will hold, you get told that instead of a replacement quote.

• Split or blistered felt at laps, corners and upstands
• Loose or corroded edge trims and drip details
• Failed flashing where the garage meets the house wall
• Blocked or undersized gutters and outlets, sized to BS EN 12056
• Ponding water from a deck that has sagged between joists

Where the deck has gone soft, a patch is money wasted. It comes back. We will tell you that on the day rather than after you have paid twice.

Asbestos Garage Roof Removal in Aldershot

Plenty of garages around the town still carry corrugated asbestos cement sheets, the grey profiled kind fitted from the fifties onward. Detached brick garages, prefabricated sectional garages, blocks of garages behind a terrace, garages built as part of a post-war estate. These are the buildings this work happens on, and the shape of the job is much the same each time.

Here is the honest position. We assess an asbestos cement roof and advise the safe, compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. We do not carry out licensed asbestos removal ourselves. Being straight about that at survey stage saves you a wasted morning later.

Once the sheets are gone the replacement is either a profiled sheet roof or, on a low-pitch garage, a flat system on a new deck. Whether you need garage roofing in Aldershot or flat roofing in Aldershot, we cover the whole area, and the same standards apply either way: BS 6229 on the flat side, BS 5250 for ventilation so the underside does not run with condensation, BS 5534 for fixings and wind uplift. Anti-condensation lining goes in where a sheet roof needs it. A cold sheet roof over a damp garage floor will drip without it.

Pricing and Typical Costs

The fear here is simple. Paying replacement money for a roof that needed a repair. Or paying repair money three times over on a roof that was finished.

We survey it first, free, with a drone view where the pitch or the neighbouring wall makes a ladder view useless. Then you get a fixed price in writing, no obligation. The price reflects what the survey found: size, access, whether the deck is being renewed, which system suits the pitch, whether the gutters and fascias go at the same time. Searching for a garage roofer close to home in Aldershot usually means you want someone who can actually come and look, and that is what happens here. Whether you need garage roofing in Aldershot or a roofer in Aldershot, we cover the whole area, and the survey costs nothing either way.

What moves the number:

• Deck condition, since a new deck is timber, labour and disposal
• Single or double garage, and how the roof meets the house
• Covering chosen: EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass, torch-on felt, box profile or metal tile sheet
• Access for a van and a skip, tight rear yards and shared drives cost time
• Asbestos cement present, which changes the sequence of the job

No hard sell on roof coatings. We do not offer them as a substitute for a roof that has failed.

Installation Process and Timescales

Garages are small buildings with awkward corners. The abutment against the house, the up-and-over door head, a boundary wall six inches from the eaves. That detailing takes longer than the open area does, and it is where a rushed job leaks first.

A straightforward single garage re-roof is often a day. Strip, inspect, new deck if needed, new covering, new trims, gutter reconnected, site swept. A double garage, a deck renewal or a sheet roof with lining tends to run into a second day. Whether you need garage roofing in Aldershot or garage roofing in Cranleigh, we cover the whole area with our own roofers, not subcontracted strangers.

Then the 25-year written workmanship guarantee is handed over before the team leaves. In writing, on the day. Not posted on later.

Doing it once, properly, is the whole point.