New Roof Installation Fleet

Every roof covering has a working life, and once tiles begin to fail faster than they can sensibly be replaced, the covering as a whole is telling you it is finished. A professional roof inspection confirms how much life remains before any decision to strip and renew.

On Fleet’s late-Victorian and Edwardian streets, many slated and clay-tiled roofs are simply original — and a century is a full career for any covering.

Where slates slip in numbers with no sign of breakage, the original nails have usually corroded through, and the fixing system has failed as a whole rather than in patches. Re-nailing course by course cannot restore a roof whose every fixing is the same age.

The shallow-pitched slate roofs of Fleet’s older terraces and villas date from the same few building booms, so their fixings tend to reach the end together.

Many period roofs were built with no felt or membrane beneath the tiles, so every displaced tile lets wind-blown rain and dust straight into the loft. A re-roof is the one opportunity to lay a breathable underlay across the whole roof and change how it handles weather for good.

Most of Fleet’s pre-war homes were roofed straight onto battens, which is why their lofts grow dusty after dry gales and damp after wet ones.

Roofs under trees stay damp long after rain, and on ageing tiles that constant moisture drives frost delamination, flaking the surface away winter by winter. Once delamination is widespread, individual replacements cannot keep pace with the decay.

On Fleet’s tree-sheltered plots, roofs dry slowly after rain, and older tiles show flaking and frost damage years before their open-field equivalents.

There comes a point where each patch repair buys less time than the one before, because the surrounding tiles and fixings are failing as fast as each fault is put right. Two or three years of repair bills, added up, often make the case for a new roof by themselves.

It is a pattern we see across Fleet’s inter-war and early post-war homes, where sound-looking roofs have quietly absorbed decades of small fixes.

A director surveys the roof and talks the options through with you — including whether a repair would honestly serve you better. Your written, itemised quote follows within 48 hours, with a fixed price and no hidden extras.

We help you weigh the choices for your home and budget, from tile roofing in clay or concrete through to slate, with samples you can hold. Where the street’s roofline matters, we match the existing covering like for like.

You get a fixed start date and everything confirmed in writing before work begins. Scaffold and skip arrangements are agreed around your household and parking, and we make sure neighbours know what is coming and for how long.

You have one point of contact from first day to last. The site is left tidy each evening, you hear how the job is progressing as each stage completes, and any weather decisions are explained as they are made.

We walk the finished roof round with you, hand over your documentation pack and put the 10-year workmanship guarantee in writing. You also get plain advice on the little upkeep a new roof needs from there.

Every roof prices differently: size, pitch, the covering you choose and the condition of the timber beneath all move the figure, so a number quoted over the phone would not be worth having. What we offer instead is a free survey conducted by a director and a written, itemised quote within 48 hours — a fixed price with no hidden extras, so you know the full cost before any work is agreed.

It depends on the house. Fleet’s Edwardian and Victorian streets carry natural slate and clay plain tiles, often with decorative ridges that deserve a like-for-like match, while the town’s bungalows and newer estates suit modern interlocking tiles. For period homes we fit slate roofing in the correct size and colour, so the new roof sits naturally beside its neighbours rather than announcing itself.

The quoted price covers the whole project: stripping the old covering, renewing any rotten timber we find, laying a breathable roof underlay, new battens and fixings, the covering itself, dry ridge and lead flashings, and all waste taken away with the site left clean. Nothing on that list is an extra, in Fleet or anywhere else we work.

A new roof is one of the few improvements a buyer’s surveyor can only approve of: decades of weather security, less heat lost through the loft and a roofline that lifts the whole frontage. On Fleet’s period streets, where original slate and clay roofs are part of a house’s appeal, a sympathetic re-roof protects that character — and our handover documentation answers survey questions before they are asked.

Start with a phone call or the contact form, whichever suits. We arrange a free survey at your convenience — always conducted by a director, never a salesperson — and go through covering choices, timing and anything particular to the house. The itemised quote lands within 48 hours, and the decision after that is entirely yours. We work across the whole of our Fleet service area, so a survey slot is never far away.