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Roofers in Colne

Roofers in Colne

Colne is two miles from us. Close enough that we are there most weeks anyway.

Distance
2 miles from the yard
Services here
9 of the twelve
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The roofs in Colne

Colne is built up a hill, and that is the thing that matters most about roofing there.

Height and exposure do real damage over time. The town climbs steeply from Primet Bridge up to the top, and the properties higher up take weather that the ones in the valley do not. Wind-driven rain from the west and south-west is the main culprit, and it finds things that ordinary vertical rain never would.

What that means in practice:

Ridge and verge work fails sooner
Mortar that might last twenty years in a sheltered spot gets a hard life up there. A dry ridge system, fixed mechanically rather than bedded in mortar, is often worth the extra on an exposed Colne roof rather than repointing the same ridge twice more.
Driving rain gets in at details rather than through the covering
If your leak only appears in a storm from one particular direction, that is a strong clue and usually points at a flashing, an abutment or a verge rather than the slates themselves.
Gable ends take a beating
Exposed stone gables on the higher streets lose their pointing, and once water is in the joints, frost does the rest.

The housing itself is stone terraces under Welsh blue slate, much as in Nelson, with some older and higher property carrying heavier stone slate. Around the parish church and the older part of the town there is genuinely old building stock, where lime mortar rather than cement matters a great deal.

Common questions

Questions we get from Colne

Because it is probably not the covering. Wind-driven rain gets in at junctions and details that shed ordinary rain perfectly well. It usually means a flashing, a verge or an abutment, and those are generally cheaper to put right than a covering problem.

On an exposed roof, usually. It costs more than repointing and it does not need doing again. We will price both.

Yes, and the villages round them. It is all within a few minutes of Colne.

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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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