Roofers in Monton, M30
Boardman Roofing is based in Swinton and covers Monton. Housing around Monton Green is largely Victorian and Edwardian, with terraces and semis carrying natural slate, leadwork, bay roofs and shared chimney stacks.
Welsh slate and nail sickness on the Monton Green terraces
The terraces off Monton Road and Parrin Lane were slated in natural Welsh slate on iron nails. The slate is usually still sound after a century. The fixings are not. Once the nail heads corrode, slates creep down the pitch in twos and threes after every gale rather than coming off in one patch, and that pattern is the tell. Refixing a slipped slate with a copper tingle is honest work on a roof with life left, but patching a nail sick roof is money spent twice.
Egerton Road and St Paul's spire
The Unitarian church spire is the tallest thing on the Monton skyline, and the streets fanning out from the church share the same Victorian bay fronted pattern as the terraces off Monton Road, just built a little later and slightly larger. Egerton Road runs from the green toward Eccles, and the houses on it were built as a cut above the surrounding terraces, with more elaborate ridge cresting that has to be sourced or matched rather than replaced with a plain tile. Access along Egerton Road is easier than the tighter terraced streets, with front gardens giving room for a tower without a licence.
Bay roofs and undersized lead valleys
The bays on these houses have small lead or slated roofs with an apron into the brickwork, and they are a regular source of damp in a front bedroom. The valleys are often original code 3 lead, thin by modern standards, laid over long lengths with no expansion joint, so it splits along the fold. We renew in code 4 or 5 with proper welted drips, and replace cement fillets at the stack with stepped soakers and a back gutter.
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Inside the conservation area around the Unitarian Church
The conservation area here was designated in 1979 and covers just over four hectares of the old village, including the grade two star listed Unitarian Church of 1873 to 1875, a former school, and the lodge of 1875 from the Earl of Ellesmere's estate. Inside the boundary the covering matters to more people than you, and a listed building needs consent before anything is stripped. Reclaimed Welsh slate on the elevations facing the street is nearly always the right answer.
Local Monton streets we cover
Lansdowne Road and Duke Street have the bay roofs we mean, with the same undersized lead valleys as the rest of the terraces. The streets right around the church sit inside that same conservation boundary.
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M30
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