Roof Repairs in Chippenham

Chippenham mixes old and new. The historic centre along the River Avon has older stone buildings and pitched roofs, while areas such as Pewsham and Cepen Park are largely later twentieth century homes with concrete interlocking tiles. Each brings its own repair problems, from worn mortar ridges on 1980s semis to slipped clay tiles near the town centre.

We cover Chippenham from our base near the Bristol and Bath border. Every repair begins with a free survey and a fixed written price, comes with a ten year guarantee, and you pay nothing until you are happy with the finished job.

On Chippenham's newer estates, leaks often trace back to a cracked tile, a gap at the verge or a flashing that has pulled away from a wall. On older town centre roofs, perished underlay and tired valleys are more common. We look inside the loft and outside on the roof to find where the water is actually getting in before we repair it.

Many Chippenham homes built in the 1970s and 1980s have mortar-bedded ridges that are now well past their best. Cracked or missing mortar lets ridge tiles loosen and water in. We rebed and repoint ridges, or fit a dry-fix ridge system where it suits the roof, which does away with mortar altogether.

We would rather repair a roof than replace it when a repair will do the job, and in Chippenham it usually will. If the survey shows the tiles, battens and underlay have all reached the end of their life, we will explain what we found and set out the options in writing.