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Roofers in Burnley

Roofers in Burnley

Burnley is about five miles from us, which means a leak reported in the morning normally gets looked at the same day.

It is also the most varied housing of anywhere we work, and that changes what we turn up expecting.

Distance
5 miles from the yard
Services here
10 of the twelve
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The roofs in Burnley

Burnley has two quite different roofing jobs inside the same town.

The Victorian terraces
Around the Weavers' Triangle, Burnley Wood, Daneshouse and Stoneyholme, you have dense stone terraces under Welsh blue slate, built for the mill workers and now well over a century old. Same story as Nelson: slate that is still sound sitting on nails that have rusted away, cement where lead should be, and ridge pointing that has been washed out by a hundred winters.
The interwar and post-war estates
Rosegrove, Brunshaw, Whittlefield, Ightenhill and the estates that went up either side of the war are largely concrete interlocking tile. Completely different problem list: ridge bedding failing first, tiles going porous and soft at the edges, and the occasional roof finished off by somebody with a pressure washer.

If your roof is tiled rather than slated, the ridge is usually what goes first. Gaps visible along the ridge line from the pavement are worth dealing with before a ridge tile comes off.

Burnley also has more extensions than most towns round here, which means a lot of flat roofs, and flat roofs built in the 1970s and 80s are now well past their span. Where somebody has patched the same one repeatedly, a conversion to pitched often works out better value than another repair.

Common questions

Questions we get from Burnley

No. It is five miles.

Reasonably, yes. Once the bedding has cracked, wind gets underneath, and a ridge tile falling from a two-storey roof is a serious matter. It is also one of the cheaper roof jobs if caught before it takes anything with it.

That is the point at which patching stops being economical. Either a proper flat roof replacement or a pitched conversion, and we will price both so you can compare.

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Where we work

Two counties, most weeks

We are in Nelson, so Pendle is our own doorstep, but we are out across Lancashire and Craven most weeks.

If you are not sure whether you are in range, ring and ask. We would rather tell you honestly than have you wait in for a quote that was never coming.

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