Areas We Cover

Wisbech and the Fens

This is our home patch. Wisbech sits on the River Nene in flat, open country, and the wind crosses miles of bare field before it reaches a rooftop, which is why loose tiles, worn flashing and lifted ridges turn up here far sooner than they do inland. March is the nearest town, south-west along the old course of the Nene, with Victorian terraces near the station and newer estates spreading out around them. Chatteris lies further down the same road, a small market town on the Isle of Ely mixing period brick with modern housing. Ramsey sits south-west across the black soil, with period homes and bungalows around the old abbey. Ely, the cathedral city to the south, pairs period property with new estates and sees plenty of wind-lifted tiles and failed flashing.

Around Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a straight run south-west down the A141, a market town on the Great Ouse with Georgian frontages in the centre and a wide ring of post-war and modern estates around it. St Ives sits a few miles further east along the river, running from period cottages by the medieval bridge to the newer Hill Rise and Wheatfields estates. St Neots, further south again, is the largest town in Cambridgeshire and still growing, with the Loves Farm and Wintringham developments alongside its older Victorian terraces. Sawtry is a large commuter village out towards the A1(M), mixing newer estates with older cottages.

Cambridge way

Head south 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 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 on the Great Ouse with a large stock of Victorian and Edwardian homes where re-roofs and roofline work are the bread and butter. Out 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.

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