Roof Repairs in Whitchurch

Roof Repairs in Whitchurch

What we see on Whitchurch roof repairs jobs

Whitchurch sits high enough on the Shropshire and Cheshire border to catch every wind that crosses the plain, and its roofs show it. Along the High Street, Brownlow Street and around St Alkmund's, the Georgian and Victorian buildings carry slate and old clay tile on timbers that have moved over two centuries, so nothing is quite square and the weak points are always the same — slipped slates, worn lead around chimneys and valleys, and ridge tiles whose mortar has long since given up. The inter-war semis and the post-war and 1960s estates spreading out toward the Tilstock and Wrexham roads are concrete tile, which is tougher but goes porous and loses the odd tile in a gale. Further out, farmhouses and cottages around Tilstock and Prees Heath stand fully exposed with nothing between them and the weather. Whitchurch is the far end of our route, around forty minutes from Chester, so roof repairs here are planned to do the job properly in one visit: trace the leak, re-fix or replace the slipped tiles, re-bed the ridge, renew the flashing and look over the rest of a Whitchurch roof while we are there, so you are not calling anyone back next winter. That is what roof repairs at this end of the route come down to.