Roofers in Kettering

A Northamptonshire market town that knows its roofs

Kettering has the kind of housing that keeps a good roofer busy. This is a classic Northamptonshire market town, grown up around the boot and shoe trade, and street after street is lined with the Victorian and Edwardian terraces that came with it. From our Huntingdon base the run west along the A14 is around twenty miles and takes very little time, so although Kettering sits over the county border in Northamptonshire it is firmly part of the area we cover, and we are there often.

The local building stock has real character. You see warm honey-coloured ironstone in the older parts of town, paired with slate and plain clay tile roofs that have done a century or more of service. Long terraces share continuous roof lines and hidden valleys, which is wonderful for the streetscape but means a problem on one house can quietly affect the next. Chimney stacks are everywhere, many of them tall, exposed and overdue some attention. Then, ringing the town, you have the post-war and modern estates with concrete-tiled roofs that are now old enough to need their first proper repairs.

The roofing jobs Kettering homes tend to throw up

On the older terraces it is usually slate and lead that need the work. Slates slip or break, nail fixings rust through, and the lead in the valleys and around the chimneys cracks and lets water in. These are jobs where experience counts, because a careless repair on a shared terrace roof simply moves the leak along. Our roof repairs cover slipped and broken slates, failed valleys, worn flashing and the damp patches they cause, right across Kettering.

Where a Victorian roof has reached the end of its life, we carry out full new roofs and re-roofs in slate and tile, matching the look of the street while bringing the roof up to modern standards with breathable membranes and proper fixings. The flat-roofed kitchen extensions, bays and garages so common across town are handled by our flat roofing in fibreglass and EPDM rubber. We are well used to Kettering's tall chimney stacks, with chimney repairs, repointing and leadwork to stop them leaking, and we fit clean uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering to protect the timber behind the roofline. For roofs greened up with moss, our roof cleaning brings them back and keeps the gutters clear.

No matter where your home sits in Kettering, you get the same straight dealing. An honest look at the roof, advice in plain English, and a fair price in writing with no pressure and no scaremongering. If a repair is all you need, that is what we will recommend. You can read more about how we work, or get in touch for a free quote and we will pop over to take a look.