Lead Work & Flashing in Ash & Ash Vale

Every piece of lead work & flashing we fit in Ash & Ash Vale carries a 25-year workmanship guarantee, handed over in writing before we leave. Repairs are included, so a renewed chimney apron gets the same promise as a new roof.

Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs and still answers the phone himself, whatever the hour. Our own roofers do the work, and emergency roof repair in Ash & Ash Vale goes to the front of the queue.

Call Wey Valley Roofing for a free survey in Ash & Ash Vale and a fixed price in writing before the next spell of rain finds the gap.

Lead Flashing Installation

Soakers and step flashings at abutments

Most leaks around a chimney or a side wall are not the tiles. They are the lead. A soaker goes under each tile, a step flashing is dressed over it, and the top edge is tucked into a raked joint and pointed. When one part of that detail is missing, water finds the gap and runs down inside the wall.

We fit every piece to Lead Sheet Association guidance, in the code of lead the position calls for. Thin lead on a position that needs heavier sheet will fail.

Valleys, aprons and back gutters

Lead valleys, the front apron below a stack and the back gutter behind it all carry more water than the slope around them. Each piece is cut to a length that lets it move with heat, lapped the right way and held with copper clips rather than nailed through. Sheet that cannot move splits.

Lead Roof Replacement and Restoration

Repair or renew

Old lead shows you what went wrong. Splits along a fold, a lifted edge where the wedges have dropped out, pointing that has crumbled from the chase. Plenty of that is repairable, and if a smaller repair will do, we say so rather than selling a new roof. Where the sheet has thinned or cracked right across, it comes out and new lead goes in.

Lead that has been patched before

Mastic, bitumen paint and flashing tape over a split buy a season, sometimes less. Mastic is not a repair. We strip patches back to sound material before anything new is fitted. People often ask where they can get lead flashing put right after a patch has failed. The answer starts with a proper survey.

Finishing new lead

New lead is treated with patination oil so it weathers evenly and does not streak white down the tiles below.

Leadwork for Heritage and Listed Buildings for Ash & Ash Vale Homes

Matching what is already there

Older roofs often carry leadwork that has been reworked many times, with dressed rolls, drips and formed details around dormers and parapets. On a listed building or an older cottage, the aim is to match that detailing, never to swap it for a shortcut. That means a close look before anything comes off, with a drone view where it helps.

Like for like

Lead is recyclable. Replacing lead with lead keeps the character of the roof and the way it was built to shed water. Consent for work on a listed building sits with the owner and the local planning authority, so check that before the work is booked. Then we do it properly.

Match it, do not modernise it.

Service Areas and Property Types in Ash & Ash Vale

The junctions on your house

A brick stack rising through a pitched roof. A single-storey extension built against a house wall. A bay with its own small lead roof, or a dormer with lead cheeks and an apron. Each of those is a lead junction, and each fails in its own way. Searching for leadwork close to home in Ash or Ash Vale? Our own roofers cover the area, never subcontracted strangers.

Across the Wey Valley

Lead work & flashing in Ash & Ash Vale is carried out by the same team handling lead work & flashing in Woking, Guildford, Cranleigh and the towns and villages across Surrey and the Wey Valley. Same team. Same guarantee.

Request a Survey or Estimate

What the survey covers

Lead usually fails out of sight, behind a stack or tucked under a ridge, so a glance from the drive tells you very little. Our free survey is done properly, up close, with a drone view where it helps. You get a fixed price in writing, and an honest one, with no obligation and no charge for the quote.

Calling us

A real person answers day, night and weekend, not a call centre. If water is already coming in, emergencies go to the front of the queue. Ring, and someone picks up.

Lead Welding and Detailing

Welded joints

Some shapes cannot be dressed from one sheet. A cut-in gutter behind a parapet, a chimney back gutter with returns, an awkward corner on a dormer. Lead welding joins the pieces into one unit where a lapped joint would not cope. One piece, no seams. It still keeps to Lead Sheet Association guidance on sheet sizes, so the lead can expand and contract as it should.

Finishing the detail

Edges are turned back to stiffen them, wedges are driven tight, and chases are pointed in mortar. Nothing relies on mastic to stay dry. All of our roof flashing services carry the 25-year workmanship guarantee, given in writing before the team leaves, and if anything is not right within 25 years we come back and put it right. Call Wey Valley Roofing for a free survey and we will tell you plainly what your lead needs.