Roofers in Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town that climbs, and its roofing changes as you go up. From the market and Stamford Street it is brick and clay tile in flatter streets, then gritstone terraces under heavy stone slate towards Hurst and the moor edge. Boardman Roofing covers OL6 and OL7 by appointment. Call Dave on 07879 736629.
Stone slate on the climb toward the moor
Above the town centre, through Hurst and toward the tops, the terraces are gritstone with stone slate roofs and they behave nothing like a Salford clay tile roof. The slates are heavy, laid in diminishing courses on riven battens, and bedded in lime because lime lets the roof breathe and move. Cover that in cement and you trap moisture in the stone. We number and sort the slates off, check every purlin and rafter foot while the covering is open, lay a breather membrane, and rebed ridge and verges in an appropriate mortar.
Stacks and lead: the two things worth paying for
On an exposed roof up here the chimney is nearly always the weak point. A stack standing proud of the ridge takes driving rain on three sides, the pointing washes out, the flaunching cracks and the flashing pulls away from the brick. Water then runs down the flue and appears in a bedroom nowhere near the chimney. We rebuild stacks from the roofline in matching brick or stone, refit or cap the pots, form new flaunching, and dress code four or five lead into a raked joint with soakers and a back gutter. What that comes to depends on the height of the stack, how far down it has to be taken and the scaffold the elevation needs.
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Ashton Old Town, Stamford Street and Hurst
The older core around the market, Old Square, Old Cross Street and the Stamford Street frontages sits inside the Old Town conservation area, with Stamford Park over toward the Stalybridge side. We will not use modern concrete tile where the original character of an Old Town cottage calls for Welsh slate; we specify natural slate or stone to match, keep the original ridge profile and use lead where the detail is visible from the street. Hurst, Smallshaw and Waterloo are different again: interwar and postwar concrete tile on brittle felt, where a full recover on a semi means scaffold, a dry ridge and fresh lead, and is quoted in writing once the loft and the covering have been checked.
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OL6, OL7
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