Roofers in Leigh, WN7
Leigh roofing has a link to the Boardman Roofing patch through the Bridgewater Canal, which was cut from Worsley and reached the middle of the town in 1795. Boardman Roofing covers Leigh for planned reroofing, flat roof replacement, chimney and leadwork and written surveys.
What the cotton years left on Leigh rooftops
The big weaving sheds still line the canal, Leigh Spinners and Butts Mill and Mather Lane among them, and the housing built for the workforce spread through Pennington, Bedford and Westleigh in tight rows off Kirkhall Lane and Firs Lane. Those roofs are mostly Welsh slate on softwood battens with lime mortar ridges. After a century the slate can easily outlive us all; it is the iron nails that rust through, so slates slip a few at a time until relaying makes better sense than re-hooking. The other classic is a lead valley somebody has cemented over.
Flat roofing: the biggest single job in WN7
There is a huge amount of flat roof here, from postwar extensions and dormers to garages, porches and the flat sections tucked behind parapets. We do not patch a dead felt roof and call it a repair. We strip to the deck, cut out spongy boarding, correct the fall with new firrings where water has been ponding, then recover in EPDM, GRP or high performance torch on felt with proper upstands, trims and outlets. What a garage roof comes to against a decent rear extension is a matter of deck area, how much boarding has gone soft, the number of upstands and outlets, and whether the fall has to be rebuilt in firrings. Dave prices it in writing once he has been on it, with no obligation.
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Reroofs, chimneys and rainwater goods
On a terrace we strip the covering, replace rotten battens, fit a breather membrane, rebatten in treated timber and relay in reclaimed or new slate. A mid terrace prices on the roof area and the scaffold a Pennington street will take. A slated semi costs more, because there is more slope, more verge and more again if the slate has to be sourced rather than salvaged off your own roof. Dave writes the figure down after the survey and you are under no obligation. Chimneys cause most of the leaks we are asked to look at, and on these streets the stack is often shared, so it becomes a conversation with the neighbour as well as a roofing job. Anything less than stepped lead wedged into the joints is a temporary fix dressed up as a repair.
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