Skylight Repair Andover

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.

Terraced housing makes up a large share of Andover’s stock, where flashings and soakers run continuously along a shared slope.

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.

Andover homes built during the expansion from the 1960s onwards frequently carry more than one unit on a single slope.

Buying a house means inheriting whatever was fitted before, with no record of when the unit was installed or who dressed the lead around it. A roof window of unknown age warrants inspection while its flashing and the covering around it remain sound.

Many Andover roof windows were retrofitted into expansion-era lofts long before the present owners took on the property.

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. It is rarely serious at that stage and rarely remains so.

Andover sits on open chalk downland, where roofs are exposed to prevailing south-westerly winds with little shelter.

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 roofs carry units of widely different ages, from older clay tile slopes to the concrete of the newest estates.

The first stage is establishing where the water entered rather than assuming the unit is at fault. It frequently arrives from a valley, a cracked tile or a failed flashing further up the slope, and where that is the case we will confirm it and resolve it as a roof leak repair.

You receive what is wrong, what we propose and what it costs, itemised and clearly set out, within 48 hours of that visit. There is no obligation and there are no hidden extras: the price you accept is the price you pay.

Dust sheets are laid beneath the opening and anything below it is moved with you before we begin. Where a visit has to leave the unit open, the roof is made weathertight again before the site is left.

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 first visit through to the last, so nothing has to be explained twice.

We make good the surrounding finish at the point of repair, leave the glass clean and the lead dressed down correctly, and explain what was done and what to monitor. The written record of the work follows with the invoice.

Most are. What decides it is the condition of the frame, the kerb it is bedded on and the flashing around it, which is what the first visit establishes. Where those are sound, 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, and a leaking roof window is treated as urgent rather than placed in a queue. Andover housing is concentrated within a compact area, with the older centre and the outer estates close to one another, and its two-storey houses and bungalows are largely reachable without scaffold. What we will not do is provide a quotation without an inspection: the flashing has to be seen first.

Yes, and most of the units we repair were fitted by another installer, often long before the current owner moved in. We work on what is there rather than on what we would have chosen, and a sound frame is not removed because the flashing kit around it is not what we would have specified. 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 is part of a covering, and Andover properties have coverings of widely differing ages, from clay tile on the older houses to expansion-era concrete tile well into its service life and estate roofs still on their original underlay. Where the battens or flashings around a unit are in doubt, a roof inspection settles it properly rather than by visual assessment alone.

Contact us by telephone or through the contact form. A director attends to inspect the unit and the flashing around it, the written findings and itemised price follow within 48 hours, and the work is scheduled at a time that suits the household. That process is the same wherever you are across our Andover service area.