Skylight Repair Andover

Not every roof window is worth repairing. Where the frame has moved on its kerb and the glazing has failed as well, a repair lasts only a few months instead of years, and a fresh skylight installation in the existing opening is the most appropriate solution. Where the frame is sound, we will confirm that a repair is sufficient.

Andover’s old centre carries clay tile and slate around the parish church, and a replacement unit there is matched to whichever covering surrounds it.

A roof window is frequently assumed to be the source of water that entered at its edges. The surround is separate work from the unit itself, and where the lead has lifted, roof flashing repair resolves it without disturbing the glazing at all.

Andover’s 1960s and 1970s terraces run in long unbroken rows, so a lifted soaker on a shared roof plane is a fault that belongs to more than one house.

An opening unit that sticks or will not latch has usually dropped in its frame, and a sash that does not close onto its seal is not weathertight. The mechanism remains serviceable long after the flashing and the kerb around it have reached the end of their service life.

Opening units retrofitted into the loft conversions across Andover’s expansion-era terraces sit at odd spacings between the rafters, and the sash is the part still expected to work.

A roof window that has begun to rattle or whistle when the wind rises has loosened at its fixings, or the lead along its side soakers has lifted sufficiently to catch the air. Refixing the unit and re-dressing the side soakers is a contained repair while the flashing around it is still sound.

Andover sits on open chalk downland with little shelter, so a roof window’s fixings on the newer estates at Picket Twenty and Augusta Park are often the first thing to loosen.

Homes fitted with two or three roof windows at the same time tend to reach the end of their service life together. Addressing them in a single visit costs less than three separate attendances, and the lead can be dressed to match across the whole slope.

Estates such as Picket Twenty and Augusta Park were built in single phases, so where one roof window on a street needs attention, the neighbouring units are often due the same repair.

A director establishes the point of entry before the unit itself is assumed to be responsible. Where it proves to have arrived from a valley, a cracked tile or a lifted flashing further up the slope, a director records that in the written findings. The team then resolves it as a roof leak repair instead.

What is wrong, what is proposed and what it costs are documented within 48 hours of that inspection. The quotation itemises every component to be renewed and prices the labour separately. There is no obligation and there are no hidden extras: the price you accept is the price you pay.

The team lays dust sheets beneath the opening and repositions anything standing underneath it with you. Where a visit has to leave the unit open, the team makes the roof weathertight before leaving the property. Debris from the reveal is removed progressively as the work proceeds.

The work is completed by our own team throughout, with no subcontracted labour. A director oversees the repair and remains your point of contact from the initial inspection to the final visit. Any addition to the scope is presented to you before it is carried out.

The team dresses the lead down correctly, leaves the glazing clean and makes good the surrounding finish at the point of repair. A director explains what was done and what to monitor before the team leaves. The written record of the repair follows with the invoice.

Most are. What decides it is the condition of the frame, the kerb it is bedded on and the lead around it, all of which the initial inspection establishes. Where those are serviceable, a repair is the appropriate course and usually limited in scope. Where the frame has moved and the surround has failed with it, we will confirm this before any work is booked.

We respond within 48 hours. A leaking roof window takes priority over planned work, because water at the reveal reaches the plaster and the insulation immediately. Andover lies near Basingstoke and Winchester, and we cover the old market centre, the 1960s and 1970s overspill terraces and the newest estates at Picket Twenty and Augusta Park. A first inspection is ordinarily arranged within that period. The flashing and the side soakers are examined then, before any quotation is produced.

Yes, and most of the units we repair were fitted by another installer, often long before the current owner moved in. The work proceeds from the arrangement already on the roof: the unit, the kerb beneath it and the flashing kit around it. A serviceable frame is retained and the surround renewed around it. Where a unit is genuinely beyond sensible repair, we will state this clearly.

Only as far as answering the question accurately requires. A roof window sits within a covering, and Andover properties carry coverings from very different periods, from Georgian and Victorian clay tile and slate around the old centre to the concrete interlocking tile on its overspill and newest estates. If the battens, the underlay or the flashing are in doubt, a roof inspection records their condition rather than by visual assessment alone. Where the covering itself has failed, the quotation includes that work as well.

By telephone or through the contact form. A director attends to inspect the unit, the kerb and the lead around it, at a time arranged around your day. The written, itemised findings and price follow within 48 hours of that inspection, and a director then schedules the repair at your convenience. The same applies wherever you are across our Andover service area.