Skylight Repair Petersfield

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.

Petersfield’s older roofs are laid in Welsh slate and handmade clay tile, with tile-hanging carried down the elevations below.

An opening unit that sticks or will not latch has usually dropped in its frame, and a sash that does not close onto its seal is not weathertight. The mechanism remains serviceable long after the flashing and the kerb around it have reached the end of their service life.

Roof windows retrofitted into Petersfield’s slate slopes have frequently outlived the flashing kits supplied with them.

A freshly plastered reveal will mark within weeks if the flashing above it is still admitting water. Where a room is about to be decorated or converted, the roof window and its surround should be resolved first.

Petersfield properties extended since the 1960s often gain a converted room where the unit predates the plasterwork below it.

The skylights bedded into flat roofs over extensions and outbuildings weather faster than the roof around them, and the upstand they sit on is the most exposed element. When one cracks, the covering dressed up around it warrants inspection in the same visit.

Flat-roofed extensions across the outer Petersfield estates stand below wooded slopes, and their coverings stay damp through winter.

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.

Petersfield roofs pair Victorian slate with units fitted many decades later, so their conditions rarely match.

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. Petersfield is a compact town, with its older centre and its outer estates close together, and most of its two-storey houses and bungalows are reachable without scaffold, although steep slate frontages need scaffold before the surround can be examined. 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 Petersfield properties have coverings of very different ages, from Welsh slate and handmade clay tile on the older roofs to interlocking concrete on estates 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 Petersfield service area.