New Roof Installation Fareham

Every roof covering has a working life, and once slates or tiles begin to fail faster than they can sensibly be replaced individually, renewal becomes the more economic course. A professional roof inspection measures how much service the slates, battens and fixings have left.

Fareham’s Georgian and Victorian streets near the old town centre carry the borough’s earliest slate and clay coverings, and much of it is now approaching the end of its service.

Where slates slip in numbers with no sign of breakage, the original nails have usually corroded through. The fixings have then reached the end of their life across the whole roof, and refixing slates individually cannot restore a slope whose nails are identical in age.

The slated villas and terraces near Fareham town centre were nailed within the same building era, so a whole roof there tends to reach this condition at once.

Many period roofs were built with no felt or membrane beneath the tiles, so a displaced tile admits rainwater and dust directly into the loft. A re-roof is the opportunity to lay breathable underlay across every slope, giving the loft a continuous secondary barrier for the first time.

The cottage rows at Wallington and Titchfield mostly predate underlay altogether, so nothing but the covering itself stands between the weather and the loft.

Roofs under trees remain damp long after rain, and on an ageing tile that retained moisture freezes and delaminates the surface, flaking it away over successive years. Once frost delamination is general across a slope, replacing tiles individually cannot match the rate of decay.

In the leafy roads towards the Meon valley, roofs shaded by mature trees stay damp longest, and the older clay tiles there flake a little further every winter.

A roof near the end of its service should be renewed before solar panels or a loft conversion are added. Removing either to re-roof later means paying twice for the same access. Renewing first gives the new installation a serviceable base of underlay, battens and fixings.

The estates raised at Locks Heath and Whiteley since the 1980s carry newer coverings, so a survey there more often turns on a planned solar array or loft conversion than on the roof itself.

A director inspects the roof, the loft and the rainwater goods, then sets out the available options. Your written, itemised quote follows within 48 hours of the survey, with no hidden extras. Where the roof retains serviceable life, we quote for a repair instead.

A director brings samples to the property and holds them against the brickwork and the neighbouring roofs. Tile roofing in clay or concrete and natural slate are each specified for the building they are going on. The verge, ridge and eaves details follow the material.

A director confirms the start date and the specification in writing before any material is ordered. Scaffold and skip positions, parking and eaves protection are agreed around the household. The neighbours either side are notified when the noisiest stages occur.

One director remains your point of contact throughout, and the same team carries out the work from strip to completion. The team cleans the site each evening, reports progress at the end of each stage, and explains any weather decision immediately.

A director reviews the finished roof with you from ground level, verifying the ridge line, verges, flashings and gutter falls against the accepted quote. The documentation pack follows, setting out the completion record, the material specification and the aftercare a new roof requires.

We price a new roof from the measurements taken at the survey. The figure follows from the roof area, the pitch and the material specified. We also count the stacks and abutments requiring leadwork and record the condition of the battens and rafters beneath. Your written, itemised quote follows within 48 hours, set out line by line. The price for that scope is fixed before work begins, with no hidden extras.

It depends on the era. Fareham’s Georgian and Victorian streets and the cottage rows at Wallington and Titchfield carry natural slate and clay plain tile, and we install slate roofing to match the size, colour and headlap of what comes off. The post-war and 1980s estates at Stubbington, Locks Heath and Whiteley take a modern interlocking tile instead, matched in colour to the neighbouring roofs.

The quoted price covers the whole project in Fareham. It includes stripping the existing covering and laying a breathable roof underlay. New battens and stainless fixings, the tiles or slates, a dry ridge and verge and new lead flashings are inside that figure. We additionally remove all waste, clean the site daily and protect the driveway and garden. Rafter and purlin renewal is priced separately once the strip exposes the timber, and none proceeds without your agreement.

A new roof addresses several of the questions a buyer’s surveyor asks. The weathering layer is new throughout, the loft loses less heat once the underlay and eaves ventilation are adequate, and the roofline is straight again across the frontage. Around Fareham’s harbour-side streets and its cottage rows at Wallington and Titchfield we match the original slate or clay course for course, so the roofline reads as it always has. We do not attach a figure to resale value, because no reliable one exists.

Telephone or use the contact form, and we will book a free survey conducted by a director at a time convenient for the household. We respond within 48 hours. The survey covers the roof, the loft and the rainwater goods, and the material options are explained at the property. The itemised quote follows within 48 hours of that visit, and we work across our Fareham service area.