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Roofing in Sussex and Berkshire
Two counties at opposite ends of our patch, with roofs that have little in common: a new town of postwar concrete tile, a seafront of Regency slate, and the Victorian red-brick terraces of Reading. Our own team covers all of it.
Postwar concrete tile around Crawley
Crawley was largely built in the fifties and sixties, and a great deal of it is still on its first roof of interlocking concrete tile, often with the original underlay or none at all. Those roofs tend to fail together rather than one tile at a time, and when several neighbours re-roof in the same few years it is because the houses were built in the same year.
That does not mean yours is due. We price the repair and the replacement side by side, so the choice is yours on the numbers.
Horsham stone and older roofs
Around Horsham and the older Sussex villages some of the oldest roofs carry Horsham stone: heavy sandstone slabs laid in diminishing courses. They are rare, heavy and usually in a conservation area or on a listed building, so a repair is a matter of matching and reusing what is there, never re-covering with something else.
More common is clay plain tile on steep pitches, with tile hanging on the upper walls, and the same rule applies: repair in kind, so it does not show.
Brighton and the coast
Regency and Victorian Brighton and Hove is slate behind parapets, mansards and a great many valley and box gutters, all in salt air. Fixings corrode faster on the seafront than they do a mile inland, and mortar-bedded ridges and verges in an exposed position are the first thing a south westerly gale finds.
On these roofs the gutters behind the parapet matter more than the slope you can see, so we look at those before quoting anything.
Reading, Slough and Windsor
Reading has street after street of Victorian red-brick terraces in Welsh slate, with the same nail fatigue and rear addition flat roofs as their London equivalents. Slough is mostly interwar and postwar tile. Windsor and Eton have a lot of conservation area and listed property, where the covering on a visible slope is controlled and we match it rather than substitute.
Where we work in Sussex and Berkshire
Our own team covers both counties. If your town is not listed, send your postcode anyway.
- Crawley and Horley
- Horsham and the villages around it
- East Grinstead and Haywards Heath
- Brighton, Hove and Shoreham
- Worthing
- Slough and Langley
- Windsor, Eton and Maidenhead
- Reading, Wokingham and Bracknell
Recent jobs in Sussex and Berkshire
Questions
Do you work on listed buildings and in conservation areas?
Yes. Where the covering is controlled we match it, and we tell you what that means for the price before you commit.
Is it worth re-roofing because the neighbours are?
Only if your roof needs it. We will price a repair alongside the replacement so you can see the difference.
Do you charge to come out and quote?
No. The quote visit is free, and the price comes back fixed and in writing.