Garage Roofing in Cranleigh

In Cranleigh the usual culprit is a felt garage roof laid decades ago, now blistered in the middle and lifting at the trims, with a brown stain creeping down the inside wall where the garage meets the house. Park a car in there and the damp air makes it worse.

Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs, still answers the phone himself, and backs every job, including small roof repairs in Cranleigh, with a 25-year written workmanship guarantee handed over before the team leaves.

Call 07428 300474 and talk it through with the person who will look at the roof.

Garage Roof Repairs

Most garage roofs around Cranleigh are felt laid on chipboard or softwood boarding, and the felt gives up long before the timber does. The first sign is rarely a drip. It is a dark stain along the joint where the garage meets the house wall, or a blister the size of a dinner plate sitting proud of the surface on a warm afternoon. Lift a loose edge and you often find the top layer has parted from the layer beneath, so water travels sideways under the felt and comes out somewhere else entirely.

Repair work starts with finding where the water actually enters, not where it lands. On a garage that usually means the perimeter: the drip trim at the front, the apron flashing against the house, or the gutter that has dropped out of level and is backing water up over the felt edge. Loose trims are a common cause and a cheap fix. So is a split at an internal corner where the felt was folded rather than cut and bonded.

If a patch repair will hold the roof for years, we say so. Boarding that is soft underfoot, sagging between joists, or shedding fibres when you press it is a different matter, and no amount of surface work will save it.

Small faults get fixed small.

Pricing and Typical Costs

Garage roofs vary less than house roofs, which makes them easier to price honestly. A single garage is commonly around 2.5 by 5 metres, a double closer to 5.5 by 5, and the cost follows the area, the access and whether the deck underneath needs replacing. A tight side passage with no room for a skip changes the day. So does a garage built up against a boundary fence where the new roof has to be dressed without stepping onto next door.

The survey settles all of that before a figure is written down. We measure, look at the deck from inside where there is no ceiling, check the fall towards the outlet, and then put an honest fixed price in writing. There is no charge for that and no obligation attached to it. If a repair costs a fraction of a replacement and the deck is sound, the quote says repair.

What we will not do is arrive with a coating pitch. Roof coatings have their place and it is a narrow one, and a coating over failed felt on a wet deck is money spent twice.

Installation Process and Timescales in Cranleigh

A typical Cranleigh garage, whether it is a detached brick single on a 1960s plot or a linked garage under the same slope as the house, comes off in a morning. Old felt and rotten boarding are stripped to the joists, the joists are checked and firrings adjusted where the fall has flattened, new deck goes down fixed at proper centres, then the new system is laid and the trims and outlet are finished. A single garage in EPDM is usually one day. A double, or one where the deck needs full replacement and the gutter needs re-hanging, runs into a second.

Access is the thing worth talking through beforehand. Garages in Cranleigh are often reached down a shared drive or a narrow gravel track, so we agree where the van and the waste go before the first fixing comes out. If you are looking for a roofer close to home in Cranleigh, our own roofers are already working across this part of Surrey most weeks, so we can usually get someone to you without a long wait.

The work is done by our own team, not passed to a subcontractor we met last week. Whether you need garage roofing in Cranleigh or emergency roofing services Cranleigh, we cover the whole area, and if a garage roof lets go in a storm on a Sunday it goes to the front of the queue. Where a garage sits under the same tiled slope as the house, pitched roofing in Cranleigh is handled by the same team on the same visit.

Garage Roof Materials and Systems

The deck matters more than the covering, and it is the part nobody sees. Once the deck is right, the choice is straightforward.

• EPDM rubber: one sheet, no seams on most single garages, bonded to the deck with a formed drip trim. Nothing to split at a lap.
• GRP fibreglass: laid wet and cured in place, hard surface, good where the roof is walked on or where a bin store sits on it.
• Felt, torch-on or built-up: multi-layer with a mineral cap sheet, still a sound system when it is three layers rather than one and properly dressed at the edges.
• Box profile sheet: for a metal-roofed or asbestos-cement garage being brought up to date, with an anti-condensation lining on the underside.

Flat roof work follows BS 6229, fixings and wind uplift follow BS 5534, and ventilation and condensation are dealt with under BS 5250. On a garage with a plasterboard ceiling and a car breathing damp air into it, that last one is why some garages sweat and drip with no leak at all. Rainwater outlets and gutters are sized to BS EN 12056 rather than replaced like for like out of habit.

Right deck, right system, no drama.

Garage Roof Replacement

Some garage roofs are past repair and it shows from the ground. A ridge of standing water that never dries, boarding visibly dished between joists, three or four layers of felt built up over decades by people patching rather than stripping, or a wall plate that has gone soft where the flashing failed years ago. Once water has been sitting in the deck through a couple of winters, patching buys weeks.

A replacement strips back to structure, so the joists, wall plate and firrings get looked at properly. Where a garage forms part of the house and the roof is being renewed, Approved Document L's requirement to upgrade insulation on a re-roof is raised at quote stage rather than sprung on you halfway through. Guttering and fascias are usually renewed at the same time because doing them later means going back up.

Every job leaves with a 25-year written workmanship guarantee, handed over before the team drives away, and it covers repairs as well as full roofs.

Asbestos Garage Roof Removal

Plenty of garages in this part of Surrey still carry their original corrugated asbestos-cement sheets, fixed with hook bolts through the crowns and often with a translucent sheet or two let in for light. The sheets go grey, the surface weathers open, and the hook bolts rust and weep. They are also brittle, so walking on them is how people fall through.

We assess the sheets, tell you plainly what you have, and advise the compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. We do not carry out licensed asbestos removal ourselves, and anyone who tells you a garage roof like that is a quick cash-in-hand strip is telling you something worth walking away from. Once the sheets are gone, we take over: new purlins where needed, box profile sheet with an anti-condensation lining, or a flat deck and EPDM if you would rather lose the pitch.