Areas We Cover

Around Huntingdon

These are our home patch, the towns and villages closest to base, where we are usually only a few minutes away. St Ives sits about six miles east, a riverside market town on the Great Ouse with everything from period cottages by the medieval bridge to modern estates at Hill Rise and Wheatfields. St Neots, around nine miles south-west, is the largest town in Cambridgeshire, growing fast with the Loves Farm and Wintringham developments alongside its older Victorian terraces. Sawtry is a large commuter village ten miles north-west near the A1(M), mixing newer estates with older cottages. These close towns are where we do a lot of our day-to-day repairs and roofline work.

Cambridge way

Head south-east and we cover the towns running towards the city. Cambourne is a modern new town built from the late 1990s, and its first wave of homes is now reaching the age where roof repairs and roofline jobs start to appear. Cambridge itself, around eighteen miles away, is a historic university city full of Victorian terraces in Mill Road, Romsey and Petersfield, plus conservation areas, listed buildings and flat-roof extensions that all need a roofer who knows what they are doing. It is a competitive city for trades, but it is well worth the trip and we are happy to make it.

Bedford & Northamptonshire

To the west and south-west we cross county lines. Bedford, the county town of Bedfordshire, sits about twenty miles away on the Great Ouse with a large stock of Victorian and Edwardian homes that keep us busy with re-roofs and roofline. Along the A14 into Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough bring rows of ironstone and Victorian terraces, plus newer growth like the Stanton Cross development, in an area with far less roofing competition. Thrapston, a stone-built market town on the River Nene just off the A14, rounds out our Northamptonshire patch.

The Fens

North and north-east of Huntingdon the land opens out into the Fens, where flat, exposed country means wind that punishes roofs. Ramsey is our nearest Fenland town, only ten miles north, with period homes and bungalows around the old abbey. Ely, a cathedral city about twenty-two miles north-east, mixes period property with new estates and sees plenty of wind-lifted tiles and flashing. Chatteris and March sit further into the Fens, both very exposed market towns with Victorian terraces and new builds, and both areas where good local roofers are thin on the ground. If your roof has taken a battering out here, we will come and put it right.

Not sure which group your home falls into, or whether we reach a village we have not named? It is a simple phone call to find out. Get in touch for a free quote or read more about how Big Red Roofing works.