New Roof Installation Petersfield

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.

In Petersfield’s historic centre, timber-framed and Georgian houses have carried the same handmade clay or slate covering through generations of patch repair before a strip finally becomes the sounder course.

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 uniform Victorian terraces built after the railway reached Petersfield were slated within a few years of each other. Their fixings now tend to fail as a single generation rather than roof by roof.

The concrete interlocking tiles fitted in the decades after the war are now beyond their intended service: the surface layer erodes, the tile becomes porous, and frost then breaks up the exposed face. Once that erosion is general across the slopes, renewing the covering is the only durable course.

The estates added around Petersfield’s edges since the 1960s carry exactly this generation of concrete tile, several of them still under their first covering.

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.

Petersfield’s timber-framed and Georgian houses were built with no felt beneath their handmade clay or slate, so a displaced tile there has always meant water and dust straight into the roof space.

Homes extended over the years often carry three or four roof coverings of different ages, each meeting the next at a junction that has to be flashed and maintained separately. Re-roofing brings the whole footprint under one covering, with every junction detailed to a single specification.

Petersfield’s older houses have been refronted and extended repeatedly over the centuries. A single roof there can carry two or three generations of covering, each junction needing its own attention.

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.

Petersfield’s timber-framed and Georgian houses carry handmade clay tile, some of it hung on the wall as well as the roof, while the Victorian terraces near the station are usually under Welsh slate. Where that slate survives we install slate roofing to the same size and colour, and the estates built since the 1960s take a modern interlocking tile rather than the concrete or artificial slate the town’s own conservation guidance advises against on the older streets.

The quoted price covers the whole project in Petersfield. 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. On Petersfield’s oldest streets the handmade clay tile is measured off the roof before ordering, so the new courses keep the original size and gauge. 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 Petersfield service area.