Pitched Roofing in Ash & Ash Vale

More than 36 years on Surrey roofs shows you where a pitched roof really fails: the ridge, the valley, the verge, the fixing nobody checked. Wey Valley Roofing brings that to pitched roofing in Ash & Ash Vale, and it is why we look properly before quoting anything.

The founder still answers the phone himself, whatever the hour, and our own roofers do the work, never subcontracted. Every job carries a 25-year written workmanship guarantee, from a full reroof to an emergency roof repair in Ash & Ash Vale, handed over before we leave.

Ring Wey Valley Roofing for a free survey and fixed written price on your Ash & Ash Vale roof, before a small leak reaches the ceiling.

Pitched Roof Repairs

Most pitched roof leaks start small. A slipped tile, a cracked slate, a ridge whose mortar has gone soft and let the wind lift it. Fixed early, each one is a contained repair. Left alone, water tracks down the battens and into the ceiling below.

We start with a free survey, inspected properly, with a drone view where it helps us see a ridge or valley clearly. Then you get a fixed price in writing for the repair the roof actually needs. If a smaller repair will do, we say so. We do not sell a new roof to cure a slipped tile.

The repairs we carry out on pitched roofs include:

• Slipped, cracked and missing tiles or slates replaced and refixed
• Ridge and hip tiles rebedded and repointed, or dry fixed
• Verges re-secured where tiles have loosened at the gable
• Lead flashings and valleys renewed to Lead Sheet Association guidance
• Torn or perished underlay relaid where it sits behind the leak

Every one of those fixes is mechanical and done to BS 5534, so each tile is held against wind uplift by nails or clips rather than by luck. And every repair carries the same 25-year written workmanship guarantee as a full roof.

Materials and Matching Existing Roofs for Ash & Ash Vale Homes

A repair that sticks out is a repair half done. Pitched roofs in Ash & Ash Vale are covered in clay tiles, concrete interlocking tiles or natural slate, and an extension added later can mean two different coverings on one house.

Matching comes down to four things:

• Profile: plain, pantile, double roman or flat interlocking
• Size and gauge, so the new tile laps the course below correctly
• Colour and weathering, so the patch does not read as new from the road
• Fixing method, so the replacement is held the same way as its neighbours

Where a tile is no longer made, we tell you plainly and set out the options, including reclaimed stock or taking original tiles from a less visible slope to complete the front. You decide with the facts in front of you. No guessing.

Pitched Roof Installation

New roofs and reroofs are the work we specialise in, and a pitched roof is built in a fixed order. Each stage depends on the one before it being right.

Strip and inspect

The old covering, battens and underlay come off. The timbers are checked before anything goes back on: rafters, wall plate and any rot at the eaves. Anything found here is shown to you before work continues.

Membrane, ventilation and insulation

A breathable membrane goes on, with ventilation planned to BS 5250 so condensation does not build up in the loft. Renewing more than half of a roof's area brings in Approved Document L, which means bringing the whole roof up to the current insulation standard where that is technically and economically feasible. We build that into the quote at the start. You will not hear about it halfway through.

Battens, covering and fixing

Treated battens are set out to the gauge of the chosen tile or slate. Every tile is then fixed to BS 5534, with the nailing and clipping set by how exposed the roof is to wind.

Ridges, verges and handover

Ridges, hips and verges are finished, leadwork is dressed and the site is cleared. Then the 25-year written guarantee is handed over before the team leaves. Our own roofers do every stage. Nothing is subcontracted.

Slate and Tile Roofing

Slate and tile behave differently, and the fixing has to respect that. Natural slate is laid to a headlap and each slate is nailed or hooked, so a single broken slate can be drawn out and replaced without disturbing the rest. Clay and concrete tiles hang on their nibs and are nailed or clipped to suit the pitch and exposure.

Both rely on the same foundation: sound battens, a membrane lapped correctly, and ventilation that lets the roof breathe. Get those wrong and good slate still lets water in.

Pitched roofing in Ash & Ash Vale is one half of what we do there, and a new roof in Ash & Ash Vale is the other, with the whole area covered along with the rest of Surrey and the Wey Valley. If you want a roofer close to home in Ash & Ash Vale, the person who picks up the phone is one of us, day, night or weekend.

What the free survey settles is simple. You get a fixed price in writing for the whole job: strip, timbers checked, membrane, battens, covering, leadwork, ridges, a tidy site and the written guarantee. No charge for the quote. No obligation.