Storm Damage Roof Repair in Manchester
The storm has been through and there are tiles on the path. Ring 07879 736629 and tell Dave what came off and roughly where from, because that decides whether this is a make safe today or a repair booked for the week. We deal with the aftermath across Manchester and Greater Manchester: slates off, ridges shifted, verges lifted, felt torn at the eaves. Keep clear of anything hanging, record the damage before it is touched, and have the work priced in writing rather than agreed on your doorstep.
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What the wind actually does
Wind does not push tiles off a roof, it lifts them off. The fastest air is at the edges, so damage starts at the verge, the eaves and the ridge. Once it is under one tile at the verge it has a lever and works along the row, which is why storm damage runs in a line rather than a scatter. Bedded ridge goes next, because the mortar cracked its full length years ago and one gust under a loose tile is enough.
The morning after: what to look at and what to leave alone
Look from the ground and from an upstairs window across the road. Run your eye along the ridge line for a step or a gap, then the verge at each gable, then the eaves. Count the gaps: a scatter of three is a repair, a strip along one row is a bigger job. Then go into the loft in daylight and look for daylight coming the other way, because a roof can stand open a fortnight before it rains hard enough to mark a ceiling. Leave alone anything hanging and the roof itself.
The record your insurer will want
We are roofers, not insurance people. We do not deal with your insurer for you, we do not advise you on your policy, and we do not negotiate anything on your behalf. Do this part yourself, in the first hour if you can. Write down the date and the name of the storm if it had one, because a claim is normally checked against the weather recorded that day. Get your own pictures from the ground before anything is moved, and keep the broken tiles rather than skipping them. Then contact your insurer and ask what evidence it needs before authorising work, because starting first can cost you the claim. What we give you is a written quote setting the work out item by item: what failed, on which elevation, and what access it needs.
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The knock at the door
After a named storm, vans go round the streets, and from your doorstep an honest one and a chancer look identical. Three things hold true either way. Nobody can know your roof needs replacing from the pavement. Nobody should need paying before the work is done. And any trade telling you the offer expires when they drive away has told you something useful. We will not ask you to decide on the spot: Dave leaves a free written quote and leaves you to think.
What goes first round here
The exposed elevations take the damage. On the interwar semis around Walkden, Whitefield and Prestwich the bedded ridge on the weather side is the first casualty, and once one ridge tile has gone the rest of that run is loose whether it looks it or not. On the Victorian terraces through Swinton, Pendlebury and Salford it is the slate, because the nails have rusted through anyway and a gale cashes in what nail sickness had set up. End terraces and corner plots lose verges that mid row houses never do.
What affects the price
No call out fee, and every quote is free. We price storm work on what the wind took and how hard that part of the roof is to reach. Making safe is normally the smallest part. What moves the figure is how many elevations are involved, whether a run of ridge needs rebedding rather than three tiles resetting, and whether your covering is still made. An exposed gable above gutter height wants scaffold rather than a tower, and that is the biggest single lever. Dave sets it all out in a free written quote with no obligation.
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