Roofers in Urmston, M41
Urmston roofing can be half diagnosed from the pavement, because so much of M41 went up inside one decade. The fields filled in between roughly 1928 and 1938, street after street of bay fronted semis built to a handful of repeating designs. Pull up on Manor Avenue or off Lostock Road and we already know the pitch, the likely tile and the three things that will have failed. Ring 07879 736629.
Why most Urmston roofs are the same age
The inter war boom that built Urmston, Davyhulme and Flixton left a very consistent stock: bay fronted semi detached houses, hipped or gabled, tiled rather than slated, on wide planned roads with grass verges. Lostock Road was widened in 1936 and 1937 with cycle tracks alongside it, which tells you how new all of this was. Ninety years on, shared age means shared problems. The ridges and hips end their life together, the tile nails have corroded away, and the felt beneath has gone brittle.
Ridge and verge mortar are the first to go
If something needs doing on one of these semis, it is the ridge or the verge. Sand and cement was never meant to last a century in a Manchester winter. A hairline crack lets water behind the bedding, frost opens it, then sections drop out and you see daylight under the ridge tile from the loft. On the gable ended houses around Church Road, Higher Road and the streets off Flixton Road, the verge mortar lands in lumps on the drive and wind lifts the edge course.
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Dormers and older stock around Urmston
There have been a lot of loft conversions here, which leaves dormer cheeks and small flat roofs to look after, and dormers are where leaks concentrate: the flashing where the cheek meets the main slope, and the join into the dormer upstand. Around Moorside Road, near Urmston Cricket Club and the Trafford General site, the older stock needs slate work rather than tile work. Boardman Roofing is based in Swinton and covers Urmston.
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