Roofers in Tyldesley, M29
Boardman Roofing is based in Swinton and covers Tyldesley. The town centre climbs a noticeable slope, with streets off Elliott Street and Astley Street exposed to wind. Coal and cotton shaped the housing and its roof coverings. Dave has 25 years on the tools.
Tyldesley terraces on the slope, and what the wind does
Height above the surrounding land changes how a roof fails. On the higher streets the prevailing wind hits the front pitch and the gable hard, and the edges go first: ridge tiles at the end of the run, the verge on the exposed gable, and the top course of slate where uplift is strongest. Once one ridge tile has gone the wind is into the roof space and works on the rest from underneath. So we fit a mechanically fixed dry ridge and clip the top course.
Former pit housing at Shakerley, Gin Pit and Astley Green
Gin Pit was built as a small industrial village to serve the pit, and there is similar stock at Shakerley and along the lanes towards Astley Green, where the colliery headgear still stands by the Bridgewater Canal. The roofs are simple gable to gable slate, which is good news, but they are often original, which means original nails. We also find plenty of past bodging: mortar smeared over cracked ridge, and cement fillets instead of lead at the abutment.
Flat roofs, dormers and roof windows
A large share of our work here is flat roofing, because so many houses have a rear extension, a garage roof or a box dormer. Old three layer felt is the usual culprit, and by the time a stain shows on the ceiling the deck is often soft. We strip to the boards, build in a proper fall, and lay EPDM in a single sheet or fibreglass where there are lots of upstands. A leaking Velux is very often the flashing kit rather than the window.
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Roofing services in Tyldesley, M29
We handle slate repairs, reroofing, wind damage, chimney flashings, flat extension roofs in GRP or EPDM and roof window fitting across M29.
Access, scaffolding and working on Tyldesley slopes
Elliott Street climbs a real slope, so the scaffold has to be levelled carefully on it. We get the pavement licence sorted before any poles go up.
Postcodes covered in Tyldesley
M29
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