Pitched Roofing in Aldershot

A pitched roof job should be predictable from the first visit, and on an Aldershot roof that means someone looks at it properly before anyone talks about price.

Wey Valley Roofing is family-run and fully insured with Public Liability Insurance, and Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs, so when you want a roofer in Aldershot the work is done by our own experienced local roofers, never subcontracted.

Call 07428 300474 any time, day, night or weekend, and a real person answers.

Pitched Roof Repairs

Most pitched roofs in Aldershot fail in one small place first. A nail corrodes, a tile slips out of the course, and rain starts tracking down the underlay until it finds a lap and drops through onto a ceiling. By the time a stain appears indoors, the water has usually been travelling for a while, often a metre or two away from the tile that started it.

Repairs get treated as repairs. If three tiles have slipped and the battens underneath are sound, that is a tile job and nothing more. Fixings are specified for the position on the roof and the exposure, which is what BS 5534 covers on wind uplift, so a mended course does not lift again in the next gale. If a smaller repair will do the job, we say so instead of quoting a new roof.

• Slipped, cracked and delaminated tiles or slates replaced
• Nail sickness on older slate roofs assessed course by course
• Perished underlay patched or dressed back at eaves
• Batten ends checked for rot where valleys and abutments meet

Fix the cause, not the stain.

Pitched Roof Installation in Aldershot

A stripped roof shows you everything the tiles were hiding: sagging rafters, packed-out battens at odd gauges, old bitumen underlay torn along every lap. That is the point at which decisions get made properly, in daylight, with the customer told what has been found.

The part that worries most people is not the roof, it is the house. Work is staged so you keep the use of your home. Scaffold goes up first and is signed off before anyone climbs. The roof is then stripped in sections rather than all at once, so the structure is never left open across the whole span, and each section is felted, battened and loaded before the next comes off. Sheeting covers the opened area overnight. Loft contents get moved or covered before a single tile comes off, because dust falls between rafters whatever you do.

First visit and survey

Someone comes out, gets up or gets a drone view where the pitch or the access makes that sensible, and looks at the roof rather than the ceiling stain. Ventilation is checked at the same time, since BS 5250 matters more on a re-roof than people expect.

Written fixed price

You get one price in writing, with the specification named: tile type, underlay, batten size, fixing pattern. No obligation and no charge for the quote. Approved Document L's 25% rule is dealt with here, at quote stage, not raised as an extra halfway through.

Strip and rebuild in sections

Old covering off, structure inspected, membrane and battens on, new covering loaded out and fixed. Skips and loading bays are positioned to keep a driveway usable where the frontage allows it.

Handover

Gutters cleared, ground raked over, magnet run for nails, scaffold struck. The 25-year written workmanship guarantee is handed over before the team leaves.

You keep your house while we work.

If you need pitched roofing in Aldershot, or you have a roof open to the weather tonight and need emergency roofing services Aldershot, the same team covers the whole area.

Materials and Matching Existing Roofs for Aldershot Homes

Aldershot housing stock is mixed, and the roof coverings show it. Older terraces and Victorian villas carry natural slate or plain clay tiles in small formats. The interwar and postwar semis around them tend to be concrete interlocking tiles, and the later estates and garage blocks bring in flatter profiles again. Matching a repair on a plain clay roof with a modern concrete tile is obvious from the pavement, so it does not get done.

Matching means matching format, gauge and headlap, not just colour. Reclaimed tiles are used where the run is short and the batten gauge suits them. On a full re-cover, the new covering is chosen to sit right against the neighbouring roof in a terrace, where two halves of one roofline are read together whether you like it or not. Weathered stock is kept back for the visible elevation and the sound new material goes to the rear where it is fair to do so.

• Natural slate, sized and holed to suit the existing gauge
• Plain clay tiles, with matching bonnets and angle tiles on hips
• Concrete interlocking tiles, profile matched to the run
• Dry verge and mechanical fixing where wind exposure calls for it

If you need pitched roofing in Aldershot or pitched roofing in Woking, we cover the whole area, and the same matching discipline applies on both.

Lead Flashing and Valleys

Leadwork is where most pitched roof leaks actually start. Cement fillets over an abutment crack within a few winters. Lead cut to the wrong length and dressed in one long piece splits at the fold, because it has nowhere to move when it warms up. Valleys collect everything the roof sheds, so a valley with a short lap or a pinhole leaks under load, not in light rain.

Lead is sized and lapped to Lead Sheet Association guidance, with the code chosen for the detail and the length kept within limits so thermal movement does not tear it. Chases are raked out and repointed properly rather than smeared. Open valleys get a proper lay board and support before any lead goes in.

Whether you need pitched roofing in Aldershot or a new roof replacement in Aldershot, the leadwork is detailed the same way on both.

Ridge, Hip and Verge Repairs

Ridge tiles bedded on sand and cement thirty years ago are usually the noisiest problem on a roof: you can often see daylight through the joints from the loft, and the mortar comes away in your hand. Verges go the same way, mortar cracking off the edge tile and leaving the batten ends open to rain and birds.

Ridges and hips are rebedded and mechanically fixed, or converted to a dry system where the roof suits it. Hip irons go back on. Verges are either repointed with the correct mix or fitted with dry verge units, depending on exposure and the look of the terrace. Bonnet hips on clay roofs are lifted and reset individually rather than skimmed over.

If you need pitched roofing in Aldershot or pitched roofing services Ash & Ash Vale, we cover the whole area.

Roof Surveys and Leak Detection

A leak rarely enters where it shows. Water runs along a rafter, over a purlin, sometimes several metres before it drops. So the survey starts inside, in the loft, looking at the underside of the covering, the daylight, the staining pattern and the nail heads, then moves outside to the detail that explains it.

Photographs come back with the report, and a drone view is used where a steep pitch or a tight rear access makes a close look from a ladder unsafe. Findings are written down plainly: what is wrong, what needs doing now, what can wait. Guidance from GOV.UK on building regulations approval sets out where consent is needed on structural or re-covering work, and that is flagged in the survey rather than left for you to discover.

Searching for a roofer close to home in Aldershot means someone who can be on site quickly, and with our own local roofers working across Surrey and the Wey Valley, that is what happens.

Slate and Tile Roofing

Natural slate on a Victorian roof usually outlives its fixings. The slates themselves are sound, the nails have rusted through, and slates start sliding one at a time from the middle of the elevation. Concrete tiles fail differently, losing their surface and growing heavy with moss until the batten gauge is carrying more than it was cut for.

Slate is holed and hooked or nailed to suit the exposure, with head laps set for the pitch rather than a habit. Tile roofs get the fixing pattern the specification calls for, with clips at perimeters and eaves courses fully fixed. Moss comes off by hand scrape and low pressure soft wash. We do not pressure wash roofs and we do not sell roof coatings.

Scott has spent more than 36 years on Surrey roofs and still answers the phone himself. That is the measure worth having.