Roofers in Ealing for Victorian villas, terraces and dormers

Ealing earned its old name, the Queen of the Suburbs, from its Victorian and Edwardian streets, and they still set the tone. Around Ealing Common, Haven Green and the roads off Castlebar Hill there are large villas with slate roofs, bay turrets and tall chimneys. Northfields, West Ealing and Hanwell are terraces of the same age, slate or clay roofed, with rear outriggers. Brentham Garden Suburb, near Pitshanger, began as a co-operative housing scheme of Arts and Crafts cottages under red clay tiles and is now a conservation area. Further west, Greenford, Perivale and Northolt are mostly 1930s semis with hipped plain tile roofs, while Acton and Southall mix Victorian terraces with later housing and busy high roads lined with flats over shops.

Ealing's terraces and villas have been loft-converted street after street, and the dormers bring their own problems. Felt dormer tops crack and pond, lead cheeks and aprons split, and the joint where a dormer meets the original slate is a common leak that shows on the stairs or landing. The original slate on the villas is often over a century old, with rusted nails, delaminating slates and lead valleys that have done their time. Bay roofs and turrets need careful leadwork. On the inter-war semis out west it is the plain tiles, hip mortar and perished felt. We re-slate and repair slate roofs, re-cover dormers in EPDM or GRP, renew lead, repair and rebuild chimneys and re-roof complete houses.

Ealing has a long list of conservation areas, so on many streets the slate, ridge and chimney details have to be kept. We match them and talk through any consent with you before work is booked. Thomas comes out, gets up to look, checks inside where the leak shows and gives you a fixed written price, explained in plain English. The family that quotes the job is the family on the scaffold, the site is cleared every day and a new re-roof is guaranteed for 10 years. We work for homeowners, landlords with rented flats and shops along the Uxbridge Road. Ring 07429 820474, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm, or send the form.

Roofing services in Ealing

• New roofs in Ealing
• Roof repairs in Ealing
• Emergency roof repairs in Ealing
• Flat roofs in Ealing
• Garage roofs in Ealing
• Slate roofing in Ealing
• Chimney repairs in Ealing
• Chimney removal in Ealing
• Leadwork in Ealing
• Roof timbers and extensions in Ealing
• Fascias, soffits and guttering in Ealing
• Gutter cleaning in Ealing
• Dry ridge and dry verge in Ealing

Our recent roofing work

Photos of our own jobs. Tap to enlarge.

Aerial view of finished slate roofs on terraced rear outriggers Brick chimney with new lead flashing on a slate-effect tile roof Dark slate-effect roof finished around a rear dormer, scaffold boards below

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