Roofers in Maidenhead

Many of Maidenhead's Victorian and Edwardian houses, around the town centre, Boyn Hill and Castle Hill, still have natural slate or clay tile roofs and tall chimney stacks. On old slate roofs, the most common problem is nail sickness. The nails holding each slate corrode, and slates slip one by one, often after autumn winds. A few slipped slates are a quick repair, but lots of them suggest the roof needs re-slating, often reusing the sound slates. Chimneys are another frequent job: worn mortar joints, cracked flaunching and failed lead flashing all let water in.

The large riverside villas often have complicated roofs, with valleys, dormers, turrets and decorative ridge tiles. Repairs there take more care, and matching the original materials matters, particularly in the Maidenhead Riverside conservation area. If your home is in a conservation area or is listed, check with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead before you change the roof covering or add roof lights or dormers.

Later homes in Furze Platt, Cox Green and Woodlands Park more often have concrete interlocking tiles. There, the usual jobs are rebedding the ridge, or fitting a dry ridge and dry verge system that uses mechanical fixings instead of mortar. Flat roofs on garages, dormers and rear extensions are common across the town, and older felt roofs often start to leak after 15 to 20 years.

Maidenhead's mature trees, along the river and in the older streets, fill gutters and valleys with leaves each autumn. Clearing them before winter stops water backing up under the slates and tiles.

Scaffolding is often the biggest single cost in a roofing quote, so ask whether it's included and how long it will be up. Ask the roofer to send photos of the problem from the roof, and check what guarantee comes with the work. Reviews on Trade Pilot come from real, invoiced jobs, so you can see which roofers have finished similar work for other homeowners.