Roofers in Didsbury, M20
Didsbury includes substantial Victorian and Edwardian houses off Palatine Road, Wilmslow Road and Burton Road, with steep slate pitches, hipped returns, deep valleys and multiple chimney stacks. Dave has 25 years on the tools. Call 07879 736629.
Welsh slate and nail sickness near Marie Louise Gardens
The larger houses off Palatine Road, including the roads either side of Marie Louise Gardens, used natural Welsh slates fixed with iron nails. Iron rusts. The slate itself is often still sound after a century, but the fixings corrode and slates creep down the pitch in ones and twos after a gale off the Mersey valley. That is nail sickness, and patching one slipped piece on a roof already showing it is money spent twice. What a single slate repair comes to here depends on how high and how steep the slope is, whether a roof ladder will reach it or a tower has to go up, and how many slates have already crept. Dave sets the figure out in writing once he has been up to look, and you are under no obligation.
Inside the Didsbury St James conservation area
The Didsbury St James conservation area was designated in 1970 and takes in the historic core around Wilmslow Road and Stenner Lane, down towards the river. Inside it, the covering matters to more people than you. Fibre cement slates across a front elevation get noticed, and a listed building needs consent before anyone strips a square metre. Our advice is nearly always the same: reuse the sound original slate on the elevations facing the street, and put matching reclaimed Welsh slate at the rear.
Box gutters and hidden outlets
Plenty of the double fronted houses in Didsbury and West Didsbury have an M shaped roof with a lead lined box gutter between the pitches, often hidden behind a parapet. A damp patch can appear away from the roof edge when an outlet silts up with moss and seed from nearby trees.
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Roofing services in Didsbury, M20
We handle natural slate repairs, box gutter cleaning and relining, traditional leadwork, chimney pointing, flat roof replacement and full villa reroofing across Didsbury.
Scaffold licensing and access around Palatine Road
Many Didsbury houses have deep front gardens, so scaffold can often stand on private ground without a pavement licence. The narrow side alleys on some properties need a compact tower to reach the rear.
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