Roofers in Irlam, M44
Irlam and Cadishead sit low and open beside the Manchester Ship Canal, so a roof here takes wind with nothing to slow it down. Boardman Roofing is based in Swinton and covers Irlam and Cadishead. If you have lost tiles overnight, or the ridge is lifting, call Dave on 07879 736629 for a realistic ETA.
What the Ship Canal wind does to an Irlam roof
Wind damage here starts at an edge: verge mortar on a gable, the last course at the eaves, or a ridge tile bedded once in the 1950s. On the streets down towards the canal and the Northbank Industrial Estate the same three faults repeat. Verge mortar gone to powder, ridge tiles on hollow bedding you can lift by hand, and nail fatigue on older concrete tiles. More mortar is not the answer. We fit mechanical fixings, a dry verge and a dry ridge on a ventilated roll.
What is up there, from Cutnook Lane to Cadishead
The village grew fast once the steelworks opened in 1910. Around Cutnook Lane and Higher Irlam you get interwar semis and short terraces, most now under Marley Ludlow or Redland Renown interlockers fitted in the 1970s and 1980s. Nearer Fiddlers Lane and Princes Park the stock is later and shallower pitched. Those roofs are sound across the field and weak at the details: brittle dry verge caps, split soakers at soil vents, thin gauge lead. Tile laid too shallow lets water track back up under wind pressure.
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Gutters and flat roofs, the jobs nobody photographs
Half the calls we take out here are rainwater goods rather than the covering. A back falling gutter soaks a gable wall all winter before anyone notices, and by then the plaster has gone inside. We clear, level and rehang, replace split downpipes, and fit a deeper profile where the old half round cannot cope. Felt over a rear extension lasts fifteen or twenty years out here. We strip to the deck, replace soft boards, and lay fibreglass or EPDM rubber with proper upstands.
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