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A planned estate village with older stone and brick at its heart.
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Roofing in Thorney
Thorney is an estate village, so a lot of the housing was built to a pattern in stone and brick with matching detailing right down the street. That is a blessing and a nuisance. The roofs share the same faults and the same age, but anything you replace has to match its neighbours or it stands out from the road for the next fifty years.
The older stone and brick has tall chimney stacks and deep mortar joints that have washed back over the years. Out on the fen around the village there is nothing to break the wind, so ridges, verges and guttering take a hammering and rain gets driven up under tiles that would be fine anywhere more sheltered.
Our yard is on Crowland Road, Peterborough, about 3 miles away, so getting to Thorney is a short run for us.
Chimney repair
Tiles and ridges put right
Roofline and guttering renewedThat is the first thing we look at. We match profile and colour as closely as the material allows, and where we can we reuse salvaged tiles on the elevation that faces the street.
It needs looking at. A lean usually means the mortar has gone on one side, often the weather side. Sometimes it is a repoint, sometimes the stack comes down to the roofline and gets rebuilt.
On an exposed fen roof wind drives rain up under the tile and the underfelt is what stops it. If that felt has perished you get damp in the loft with a roof that looks perfect from the ground.
Ring Stanley and describe what the roof is doing. He will tell you straight whether it needs a repair, a section replacing, or nothing at all yet.
03301 339819Out of hours and emergencies: 07426 293716
We ring back the same day. The basics are enough.
