Metal Roofing in Woking

Metal roofing in Woking starts with a phone call a real person answers. Then a free survey, the roof inspected properly, with a drone view where it helps. Next an honest fixed price in writing, no charge and no obligation. Then the work, a tidy site and the guarantee in your hand.

More than 36 years on Surrey roofs sits behind this work, and the same care goes into a pitched roof in Woking as into a standing seam extension. Every job, repairs included, carries a 25-year written workmanship guarantee, handed over before the team leaves.

Call Wey Valley Roofing for a free survey in Woking and have your fixed price in writing before you decide anything.

Metal Roofing Materials

We fit four kinds of metal roof, and each one suits a different job. The choice usually settles itself once we have stood on the scaffold and seen the pitch, the deck and what sits underneath.

• Standing seam zinc: long panels joined by raised, folded seams, laid on a fully supported deck. It weathers to a soft grey and copes with low pitches and awkward junctions.
• Standing seam aluminium: the same seam system in a lighter metal, useful where the structure below has little strength to spare.
• Box profile sheet: ribbed sheet fixed through to purlins, covering a wide span quickly. It is the usual answer on garages, workshops and outbuildings.
• Metal tile sheet: pressed sheet shaped to read like a tiled roof, for pitched roofs where weight is the problem.

The list matters because the wrong metal on the wrong roof is where trouble starts. Zinc does not like being trapped against damp timber with no air behind it. So we set out the build-up below the metal to BS 5250, giving condensation on the underside somewhere to go. Then we tell you which metal fits your roof, and why. Plainly.

Standing Seam Roofing Systems for Woking Homes

On a house, standing seam usually goes on the back: a flat or shallow rear extension, a porch, a dormer cheek, a garden room. The job runs in the same order every time.

Survey first

We come out for a free survey and inspect the roof properly, with a drone view where it helps. We check the deck, the falls, where the roof meets the wall and where the water leaves it. Those junctions decide the detailing.

A fixed price in writing

You get an honest fixed price in writing, with no obligation and no charge for the quote. If the existing roof only needs a repair, we say so. No new roof gets sold to you that you do not need.

Fitting the panels

On site, the sequence does not change:

• The deck is made sound and the layers below laid, with ventilation set out to BS 5250.
• Underlay goes down, then the clips. Fixed clips hold each panel in position, sliding clips let the metal expand and contract.
• Panels go on and the seams are folded closed along their full length.
• Verges, eaves and wall abutments are finished, with any leadwork done to Lead Sheet Association guidance.

Getting the clips right is what lets a roof move quietly with the weather instead of buckling. It is worth doing once.

Handover

The site is left tidy and the 25-year written workmanship guarantee is handed over before we leave. If anything is not right inside those 25 years, we come back and put it right.

Domestic and Commercial Installations

A metal roof is as much at home on a workshop or commercial unit as on a house. A detached garage in Woking with tired sheeting and a unit with a leaking box profile roof are the same shape of job: strip, check the purlins, re-sheet, seal the laps and the ridge.

Older garage sheets are sometimes asbestos cement. We assess them and advise the safe compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 before anything is lifted. We do not remove it ourselves.

On houses, renewing more than half of a roof's area brings in Approved Document L. That means bringing the whole roof up to the current insulation standard, where that is technically and economically feasible. We price it in at the start. You hear about it at the survey, not halfway through the job.

People ask about the cost of metal roofing per square metre. The honest answer depends on the metal, the deck and the detailing, which is why we price your roof in writing after seeing it. The same family-run team that roofs in Woking also handles metal roofing in Guildford, with the same written guarantee. Our own roofers do the work, never subcontracted, and a real person answers day, night and weekend.