Roofers in Altrincham, WA14
Altrincham roofing is the most heritage constrained work we do. Around ten conservation areas cover the town and its villages, among them The Downs, The Devisdale, Bowdon, Goose Green, Old Market Place, George Street, Stamford New Road, Ashley Heath, Sandiway and the Linotype workers' estate at Broadheath. Inside those boundaries what goes back on your roof is not simply a matter of taste or budget.
Ten Altrincham conservation areas and what they mean
Conservation area status does not stop you repairing a roof. It does mean that changing its character, the material, the colour, the profile, the way the edges are finished, can need consent and can be refused. In practice that rules out swapping natural slate for a concrete lookalike, replacing lead flashings with cement fillets, or fitting a bright plastic dry verge on a Victorian villa. There are listed buildings too, Royd House by Edgar Wood among them, where consent covers more than people expect.
Slate on The Downs, the Devisdale and Bowdon
The large Victorian and Edwardian houses on The Downs, around the Devisdale and up through Bowdon are the most demanding roofs in the borough. Steeply pitched, often Welsh slate in graduated diminishing courses, with multiple hips, secret valleys, decorative bargeboards, tall stacks and sometimes a tower. The work is slow and properly skilled: setting the gauge to match what is there, and dressing lead by hand rather than fitting a system. We quote them as individual buildings, and always price repair alongside replacement.
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Timperley, Hale and Hale Barns in WA15
WA15 is usually a different job. Timperley, Hale and Hale Barns run to inter war and post war semis and detached houses on tile, plus a good deal of later extension work. The problems there are the ordinary ones: mortar bedded ridges at the end of their life, cracked verges, tired flat roofs over extensions and garages, and flashings done in cement instead of lead. Outside the Ashley Heath and Sandiway boundaries you have a free hand on materials, so dry systems make sense. On a 1970s interlocking tile roof in Hale Barns, a dry verge and dry ridge is the sensible choice.
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