Roof Repair Fleet

A slipped or cracked tile is usually visible from the ground and points to a failed fixing or impact damage. Left in place, it allows water through to rot the batten beneath it.

On Fleet’s steeply pitched inter-war roofs a displaced clay tile tends to slide clear quickly, so early refixing keeps the repair small and contained.

Flashing that has lifted or cracked lets water track down the brickwork and into the rooms below, and it is one of the most common faults we find. The tall chimney stacks on Fleet’s Edwardian and Victorian homes give the lead more edges to fail along, so we trace a roof leak back to the flashing before assuming the tiles are at fault.

When slates slip one after another with no sign of breakage, the nails holding them have usually corroded — a condition known as nail fatigue. The shallow-pitched slate roofs on Fleet’s late-Victorian houses are now well past the life of their original fixings, so we re-fix affected courses rather than patching slate by slate.

Cracked or missing mortar along ridges and verges indicates that the bedding has weathered and lost its grip, leaving ridge tiles loose in strong wind. Many older Fleet roofs still carry their original decorative clay ridge tiles, which we re-bed and retain rather than replace.

Thick moss holds moisture against the roof surface and breaks away in wet weather to block gutters and downpipe outlets, forcing water back under the eaves. Fleet’s tree-lined roads and mature gardens make this steady build-up of moss and leaf debris a regular cause of the leaks we attend.

It starts with a call or a message through the contact form. We book a free site visit, conducted by a director, at a time that suits you, and you receive a written, itemised quote — clear pricing, no hidden extras — within 48 hours.

Where a leak cannot wait, we prioritise a make-safe visit — callback within 24 hours — so no more water gets in while the proper repair is planned. Our emergency roof repair service exists for exactly these callouts.

Before work begins we agree access with you — where ladders or scaffolding will stand, where the van parks and anything your neighbours should know in advance. Gardens, paths and anything beneath the working area are protected before the first tile is lifted.

We repair with materials matched to your existing roof and fixings appropriate to it, scheduling mortar and membrane work around the weather so nothing is rushed or compromised. The site is left tidy at the end of every working day.

You see photographs of the completed repair alongside what we found, so you know exactly what was done and why. We finish with plain advice on anything worth keeping an eye on — and no pressure to book further work.

It depends entirely on the scope — a slipped tile refixed is a very different job from storm damage across a slope, and no two roofs wear the same way. That is why every repair starts with a free site visit and a written, itemised quote with no hidden extras, back with you within 48 hours, so you can decide with the facts in front of you.

If water is coming in now, you get a callback within 24 hours and a make-safe visit that stops the damage spreading while the full repair is arranged. Much of that urgent work across Fleet follows gales — storm and wind damage is a service in its own right. For routine repairs, your quote arrives within 48 hours and the work is booked in soon after.

Where a fault is contained — a patch of slipped tiles, a length of failed flashing, a worn valley — a repair is almost always the sensible answer. When failures keep appearing across the whole roof, patch after patch rarely pays, and a full roof replacement becomes the more reliable course. In Fleet that decision comes up most on older slate roofs reaching the end of their fixings, while the newer concrete-tiled estates almost always justify repair.

Yes. We match replacement materials to what is already on the roof — sourcing reclaimed slate or clay tiles in the correct size and batch from regional reclamation yards where needed — and detail the work to the BS 5534 standard. On Fleet’s older streets, where decorative clay ridge tiles and slate courses give the roofline its character, that matching is what keeps a repair invisible.

Get in touch by phone or through the contact form. A director visits, inspects the roof and talks the options through with you, and your written, itemised quote — with honest advice on whether the repair is worth doing at all — follows within 48 hours. We cover the whole of our Fleet service area, so an appointment is rarely far away.