Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs, and garage roofs are where that time shows, because a garage is the one roof people are most often talked into replacing when it did not need replacing.
What You Need To Know
- A survey tells you whether the deck has failed or the leak is local, and we say which before quoting.
- Work is staged in sections so the roof is never left open overnight and the garage is out of use for as short a time as possible.
- Flat systems in EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass and felt, plus tiled, box profile and standing seam options for pitched and detached garages.
- Asbestos-cement sheeting is assessed and the compliant route advised under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
- Fixed price in writing, no charge for the survey, and a 25-year written workmanship guarantee handed over before we leave.
Family-run, fully insured with Public Liability Insurance, our own local roofers rather than subcontracted strangers, and the same team that handles fascias, soffits & cladding in Godalming when the garage eaves need putting right at the same time.
Call 07428 300474 any hour and a real person answers, not a call centre.
Most garage roofs get replaced when a repair would have held for years, and some get patched when the deck underneath has already gone soft. The difference is what a survey tells you, not what a salesman guesses from the pavement.
Call Wey Valley Roofing on 07428 300474 to book a free survey for garage roofing in Godalming, and we will tell you whether the deck has gone or a repair will do.
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Garage Roof Repairs
The awkward part of garage roof repairs is that the leak rarely shows up where the water gets in. Water tracks along a deck, follows a joist, then drips through a ceiling board two metres away. Chasing the stain wastes money. We look at the whole roof first.
Where garage leaks actually start
On a felt garage roof it is usually the edge details: the drip trim, the upstand against the house wall, or a split at a joint where the felt has been stretched over a timber edge. On older concrete-tile garages it tends to be the verge or a failed flashing. Blistering across the middle of a felt roof looks alarming and is often not the leak at all. We open up enough to see the deck condition and tell you what we found.
Patch repair or a new covering
A patch is honest work when the deck is sound and the failure is local. If the boards are damp, spongy or delaminating, a patch buys a winter and no more. We say which one you are looking at before we quote. If the smaller repair will do, that is what we recommend, and it goes in writing at the price we said.
Guttering and the joint with the house
A lot of garage damp is not the roof. It is a blocked or undersized outlet dumping water down a wall, or a garage gutter running back towards the house instead of away from it. Rainwater sizing is set out in BS EN 12056 and we work to it, because an oversized roof draining into an undersized outlet will keep failing whatever you cover it with.
Installation Process and Timescales in Godalming
The thing people worry about is not the roof. It is the mess, the noise, and losing the garage for however long the job runs. Fair worry. So here is how the work is staged.
How the job is staged
The old covering comes off in sections, not all at once, so the roof is never left open longer than it needs to be. Stripped material goes straight into a covered skip or bags rather than sitting on your drive. Deck repairs happen the same day the deck is exposed. New covering goes on behind that. Tea break noise is the worst of it: the loud part is stripping and fixing, and it is measured in hours rather than days on a single garage.
Our wider garage roofing services follow the same sequence whether the garage is attached to the house or standing on its own at the end of a Binscombe driveway.
Living with the work
If the garage is attached, you will hear it through the party wall. Nobody pretends otherwise. What you will not get is a roof left open overnight in October. We ask you to clear the floor and move anything you would not want dust on, because garage ceilings shed grit when the fixings come out above them. Cars come out for the day. Bikes and freezers can usually stay if they are sheeted.
Access on Godalming streets
Access decides more about timescale than the roof does. Godalming has plenty of post-war estate housing in South Hill, Farncombe Hill and Aarons Hill where garages sit in blocks or down shared drives, and older Victorian and Edwardian streets on the south side where a garage is squeezed behind the house with a narrow side passage. We look at that on the survey and tell you where the skip goes and where the material lands. No surprises on the morning.
Garage Roof Replacement in Godalming
Replacement gets sold too easily. It is the right call when the deck has failed, when the falls were built wrong from the start, or when a third patch has already been paid for. Then a new roof is the cheaper option over ten years.
When replacement is the honest answer
Standing water is the giveaway. If a flat garage roof holds puddles two days after rain, the falls are wrong and no covering will last on it. We rebuild falls with firrings rather than laying new felt over a dish and hoping. Flat roof design and drainage sit under BS 6229, which is what we build to.
Warm roof upgrades and condensation
Garages that get used as workshops or gyms sweat. Cold decks with no ventilation path drip in January and people call it a leak. Ventilation and condensation control is covered by BS 5250, and on a re-roof we will tell you whether a warm-roof build-up or an anti-condensation lining is the sensible answer for how you use the space. If you need garage roofing in Godalming or a new roof replacement in Godalming, we cover the whole area.
Pitched garage roofs
Tiled and slated garage roofs need the same fixing discipline as a house roof. Wind uplift does not care that it is only a garage. We fix to BS 5534, ridge and verge included, dry-fixed where the detail calls for it. Mortar-bedded verges on exposed corner plots fail first.
Pricing and Typical Costs
Nobody can price a garage roof from a phone call, and any figure given that way is a hook. Size, access, deck condition and the covering you choose move the number. So we come and look.
What the price depends on
- Roof area and how the garage is accessed
- Whether the deck is being re-boarded or kept
- The system: felt, EPDM, GRP fibreglass, or tiles on a pitch
- New trims, upstands and rainwater goods
- Whether insulation is going in as part of the work
The survey is free and there is no obligation. The price comes to you in writing as a fixed figure, and it does not move afterwards unless you ask for something different. If you need garage roofing in Godalming or pitched roofing in Godalming, we cover the whole area.
Where the 50% rule comes in
On a re-roof, if you are renewing more than half of the roof, Approved Document L brings insulation improvements into scope. That is not a surprise we spring on you halfway through. It is priced in from the start or ruled out at survey, and we explain which applies to your garage.
Asbestos Garage Roof Removal
Plenty of Godalming garages from the 1950s to the 1970s still carry corrugated asbestos-cement sheeting. It is grey, brittle and it looks like nothing much. Do not drill it and do not walk on it.
How we handle it
We assess the sheeting and advise the safe, compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. We are clear about the boundary: we assess and advise, we do not carry out licensed asbestos removal ourselves. You get told plainly what the material is, what has to happen before a new roof goes on, and how that fits the sequence of the job.
What happens after it goes
Once the sheeting is gone the frame usually needs attention. Purlins may be rusted, fixings shot, and the eaves detail non-existent. Profiled sheet replacement has its own code of practice and we detail the laps, fixings and flashings properly rather than sheeting straight over tired steelwork.
Garage Roof Materials and Systems
Every system has a failure mode. The salesman who tells you one material never leaks is telling you something else about himself.
Flat systems compared
- EPDM rubber: one sheet, few joints, forgiving on a simple rectangle. Detailing at upstands is where skill shows.
- GRP fibreglass: hard, seamless, takes foot traffic. Needs dry weather and a sound deck to lay well.
- Felt, torch-on or built-up: proven and repairable in layers. Cheaper systems with thin caps are what give felt its reputation.
These sit inside our flat roofing work rather than being separate trades.
Metal and pitched options
Box profile and metal tile sheet suit larger detached garages and outbuildings, and standing seam zinc or aluminium suits a garage that has to look like it belongs beside a period house. Near the centre of Godalming, where the green space around the River Wey and the Grade I listed church make roofs visible from public ground, appearance matters as much as watertightness.
What we will not do
We do not pressure wash roofs. Soft wash and hand scraping, or nothing. We also do not push coatings onto a garage roof that needs replacing, because a coating over a failed deck is a paint job on a problem. Scott has been on Surrey roofs for more than 36 years and has seen where that ends.
Call Wey Valley Roofing on 07428 300474 to book a free survey for garage roofing in Godalming, and we will tell you whether the deck has gone or a repair will do.
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People Also Ask: Garage Roofing in Godalming
Should my garage roof be repaired or replaced?
It depends on the deck, not the covering. If the boards under the felt are dry and sound and the failure is at a trim or an upstand, a repair is honest work and will hold. If the deck is damp, spongy or the roof holds standing water two days after rain, the falls or the structure have failed and a repair is money down the drain. We open up enough to see it and tell you which one you have.
How much would it cost to reroof a garage?
Not something anyone can answer down the phone. Area, access, deck condition, the system you choose and whether insulation comes into scope all move the figure. The survey costs nothing and carries no obligation, and the price comes to you in writing as a fixed number.
How long will my garage be out of use during the work in Godalming?
On a single garage the noisy stripping and fixing part is usually a matter of hours rather than days, though we never quote a duration before seeing the roof. Access is the bigger factor in Godalming: garages down shared drives on the post-war estates in South Hill or Aarons Hill, or squeezed behind Victorian and Edwardian houses on the south side, take longer to set up than an open front driveway. We tell you at survey.
Do you deal with old asbestos garage roofs in Godalming?
Yes, in the sense that matters. Many Godalming garages built between 1950 and 1980 still carry corrugated asbestos-cement sheeting. We assess it and advise the safe compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. We do not carry out licensed asbestos removal ourselves, and we will not pretend otherwise. Leave it undrilled and unwalked-on until it has been looked at.