Roof Repairs in Cranleigh

A brown ring on the landing ceiling, one tile out of line above the back bedroom, and a gutter that overflows in every heavy shower. Cranleigh houses do this: older clay and slate roofs with deep eaves alongside later estate housing where the roofline has gone brittle, and the water always finds the weakest detail first.

Wey Valley Roofing is family-run and fully insured, with Scott's 36 years on Surrey roofs behind every job, from a single slipped tile through to flat roofing in Cranleigh, all of it done by our own local roofers and never subcontracted.

Call 07428 300474 and tell us what the roof is doing.

Roof Leak Diagnosis and Emergency Call-Outs

Most leaks do not show up where the water gets in. It runs along a batten, drops off a nail, and stains a ceiling two metres from the actual fault. That is why patching the wet patch fails so often, and why people end up paying twice for the same leak.

We start at the top. The roof is inspected properly, from the covering down to the underfelt and the timbers where we can see them, with a drone view where the pitch or the access makes that the sensible option. If a valley is blocked, a flashing has lifted or a slate has cracked, we say which one it is and why the water is tracking the way it is. No guessing.

Emergencies go to the front of the queue. Ring the number and a real person answers, day, night or weekend, and that person is usually Scott. If the weather is against a permanent fix on the day, we make it watertight and come back to do the proper repair once it is safe to work.

• Active leaks and storm damage looked at first
• Ceiling stains traced back to the entry point, not the drip
• Temporary weathering where conditions demand it, then the real repair

Guttering, Fascias and Roofline Repairs for Cranleigh Homes

The awkward truth about roofline work is that the roof is often blameless. Water pours over a sagging gutter, soaks the fascia, rots the ends of the rafters and shows up inside as damp on a bedroom wall. Owners spend money on tiles when the fault sits under them.

Around Cranleigh there is a lot of older brick and tile with deep eaves, plus a good number of post-war and later estate houses where the original plastic roofline has gone brittle and dropped out of line. Both fail in the same way: standing water, moss in the run, joints weeping at the back where nobody looks. We check falls and outlet sizes against BS EN 12056 rather than refitting a gutter that was undersized in the first place.

Repairs are staged from the outside. Scaffold or towers go where they are needed, the old sections come down, the timber gets looked at before anything new is fixed back, and rotten fascia is replaced rather than capped over. Seamless aluminium is an option where a long run keeps splitting at the joints. It is honest work with no drama attached.

Pitched and Flat Roof Repairs

Flat roofs get blamed for being flat. Usually they failed because they were laid with no fall, no ventilation path, or a felt lap finished half an inch short. Pitched roofs fail at the details: the ridge, the abutment, the point where the extension meets the main wall.

On flat roofs we work to BS 6229 and deal with what is under the surface, not only the surface. That means checking the deck for softness, checking the insulation is not sitting wet, and deciding honestly whether a localised repair on EPDM, GRP or torch-on felt will hold or whether the section needs relaying as a warm roof. On pitched roofs, fixings are specified to BS 5534 for wind uplift, and ventilation is judged against BS 5250 so a repair does not trap moisture and cause condensation that looks exactly like a leak.

We do not hard sell roof coatings. If a coating is not the right answer for your roof, we will say so.

Repair Materials and Methods in Cranleigh

Cheap materials are the reason repairs come back. Mismatched tiles, mortar bedded where a mechanical fix belongs, silicone smeared over a flashing gap: all of it buys a year, maybe two. Then the ceiling stains again.

We match what is already on the roof. Plain clay tiles, concrete interlockers, natural slate, ridge and hip units, and lead to Lead Sheet Association guidance rather than a substitute that will split at the first cold snap. Workmanship on slating and tiling follows recognised practice, and BSI publishes BS 8000-6 as the code of practice for exactly that kind of site work. Where an old garage roof turns out to be asbestos cement, we assess it and advise the safe, compliant route under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, and we are straight with you that licensed removal is not something we take on ourselves.

From Cranleigh out to Ash and Ash Vale, the same team covers the patch, roof repairs in Ash & Ash Vale included. Same roofers, same standards, no subcontracted strangers turning up in an unmarked van.

Slipped Tiles, Slates and Broken Roof Coverings

A single slipped tile looks harmless from the ground. It is not. Wind gets under the course above, nail fatigue takes the next one, and by the second winter you have a patch of exposed felt taking rain it was never meant to take on its own.

If you are searching for a roofer close to home in Cranleigh, we are on Surrey roofs daily and can usually get someone out to look without a long wait. Slipped and cracked units are refixed or replaced, nail sickness on older slate roofs is dealt with course by course rather than tile by tile, and ridge and hip tiles are rebedded and mechanically fixed where the mortar has gone. Where a covering has reached the end of its life, we say that plainly instead of selling you another repair. You need roof repairs in Cranleigh, or you may need a new roof replacement in Cranleigh, and we cover both across the whole area. Homes in Cranleigh and Godalming alike ring us for roof repairs in Godalming and here, week in week out.

Living with the work is the part people worry about. Nearly all of it happens outside, on the roof and on the scaffold, so nobody is camped in your hallway. Access is agreed before we start, dust sheets go down if internal access is needed at all, tiles and debris are dropped into a chute or a bag rather than the garden, and the site is swept and cleared at the end of each day. You keep your rooms. Then the guarantee is handed over in writing.

Lead Flashing, Chimneys and Valleys

Chimneys and valleys are where most persistent leaks live. Flaunching cracks, pointing washes out, and a stepped flashing that was bedded in mortar instead of dressed into the brickwork lifts in the first gale. Valleys silt up with moss and then overtop into the roof space.

Lead is dressed and fixed to Lead Sheet Association guidance, with proper joints and sensible bay lengths so the sheet can move without splitting. Chimney work runs from repointing and flaunching through to partial and full rebuilds, pots and cowls. Valleys are cleared, lined and made to run again. Moss is scraped off by hand and roofs are soft washed at low pressure, because pressure washing strips the surface off tiles and shortens the life of the roof. We do not pressure wash. Scott has been on Surrey roofs for more than 36 years and has seen what it does.