Roof repairs in Cadnam and Bartley
Loose hips on seventies bungalows, slipped slate on Bartley cottages, lifted chimney lead and split flat roofs, found and mended across Cadnam and Bartley.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
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Roof repairs
Mending the fault, not the whole roof
Yes, we repair roofs in Cadnam and Bartley, from one slipped slate on a Bartley cottage to a loose hip on a seventies Cadnam bungalow or a split over a flat-roofed garage. We track the water back to where it gets in, mend that spot, and put the price in writing after a free site visit.
If rain is getting into the house right now, ring 07435 839745 and say which room it is showing in.
Perhaps you have spotted one of these. A hip tile on a bungalow has shifted and there is grey mortar grit on the path below it. A slate has slid off the front of a brick cottage and is lying in the gutter. Or a tea coloured ring has appeared on the ceiling beside the chimney breast and gets bigger after heavy rain.
Thomas looks at the slopes from the garden, goes up on a roof ladder where it is safe to, and checks the underside through the loft hatch. You get photographs of the fault and a written price. If the roof is past mending, a full re-cover is one for our roofers in Cadnam and Bartley.
The repairs
Concrete tile bungalows and slate cottages: mending each one
A large share of the houses and bungalows here went up after the war, with a sizeable older stock of brick cottages and farmhouses, mainly in Bartley. The faults differ, so the repairs do too.
Sixties and seventies houses and bungalows
These are typically roofed in concrete interlocking tile over black bitumen felt. A bungalow has a low hipped roof, which means long hip runs, and every hip tile sits on a bed of sand and cement. After fifty years that bedding cracks, the tile starts to rock and a gale lifts it off. We take up the loose run, clean the tiles and refix them, either bedded in fresh mortar with a clip or screw through each tile, or on a dry hip system with no mortar at all. BS 8612 covers the dry systems, and BS 5534, the code of practice for slating and tiling expects ridge and hip tiles to be mechanically fixed whichever way you go. A bungalow hip is generally a day on the roof.
The gable ends of the two storey houses lose their mortar verge the same way. A clip-on dry verge takes the mortar out of the equation, fitted to the tiles already there. A cracked tile, or one that has slid because its nib has snapped, is lifted out and a new one slid in under the course above and clipped. Some of the older concrete profiles are no longer made, so the match comes from profile and colour, sometimes from a reclamation yard.
L-shaped plans put a valley where two slopes meet. Silted with debris, it spills sideways under the tiles. If the lining has split, the cut tiles either side come up and it is relaid in lead or a GRP trough.
Bitumen felt gives up first at the eaves, where it hangs into the gutter and the sun gets at it. Once that strip has gone, rain runs behind the gutter and into the fascia board. We cut back the perished felt, let in new membrane and an eaves tray under the bottom course, and replace a rotten batten if we find one. A soft fascia is a job for fascias, soffits and guttering in Cadnam and Bartley.
Plenty of these houses also have a flat-roofed garage, porch or back extension. A split in the felt, a blister or an upstand pulling away from the house wall can be patched when the deck beneath is dry and firm. A soft deck, or a roof blistered all over, is a job for flat roofing in Cadnam and Bartley.
Bartley's brick cottages and older farmhouses
The late Victorian and Edwardian cottages are brick with a gabled Welsh slate roof and a chimney stack at each end. A slate that slips has almost always lost its nail to rust. One slate goes back with a tingle, a strip of lead or copper nailed to the batten and folded up under the slate's tail. When slates are going all over one slope, that is nail sickness across the slope, and a row of tingles only marks where the next one will slide from. Then the slope is stripped, the sound slates kept, and it is renailed onto new battens and membrane.
Where an end stack meets the slate, the old mortar fillet cracks away from the brick, the stepped flashing lifts and water runs down inside the gable wall. We cut the lead into the joints in steps, fit soakers under the slates alongside, and renew any cracked flaunching round the pots at the same visit. There is more about stacks on chimney repairs.
The oldest buildings, such as Old Grove Farmhouse with its long catslide at the back, are under old clay plain tile. Old plain tiles flake in frost and lose their nibs, and the replacements come from reclaimed tile of the same size and colour, because a new machine made tile stands out. A thatched roof needs a specialist thatcher, which is not us.
How it runs
From your call to a written price
One person to ring from the first visit to the last. The quote is itemised, not a figure on the back of a card: access, where the fault is and what is being opened up to reach it, each tile, slate, ridge or flashing being renewed and what with, making good, and disposal on separate lines, so you can compare it properly against anyone else's.
Nothing is left open or unusable overnight. The site is swept at the end of each day rather than the end of the job, and what comes out leaves with us. If something turns up once we start that nobody could have seen, you get a photograph and a price before we carry on.
Planning in both villages is the New Forest National Park Authority. A like for like repair needs no application, but there are ten listed entries in and around Cadnam and Bartley, and if your home is one of them, speak to the Authority before any roof work; its National Park heritage and conservation guidance sets out what it controls.
Cost
What decides the price of a roof repair
No rate per square metre, because a slipped tile over a porch and the same tile above a three storey gable are one repair and two very different jobs.
Getting to it. A single storey Cadnam bungalow, a detached two storey house with a valley at the back, and a Bartley cottage with a stack at each gable each need a different ladder, tower or platform. A tile over a porch or a bungalow eaves can often be reached from a ladder and a roof ladder. A ridge, a chimney or a valley on a two storey house usually wants a tower or a scaffold, so a small repair can still need a proper platform. The work at height rules decide that, which is why access is its own line on the quote and not hidden inside the repair.
Finding the cause, not the stain. Water runs along the battens and the underlay before it drips, so the mark on the ceiling is rarely under the fault. Tracing it back to a cracked tile, a lifted flashing, a perished valley or a ridge joint that has opened is part of the job, and a repair priced before anyone has looked is a guess.
What the repair uncovers. Lifting a few tiles shows the battens and the underlay around them. If they are sound the repair stays small. If the felt has perished or the battens have rotted, you get a photograph and a separate written price before anything more is done. Where patching stops being worth it is a conversation you have with the facts in front of you.
Comparing quotes? Ask what fault they actually found and where, whether access is included, what is being replaced and with what (a matched tile, new or reclaimed slate, which code of lead), whether the ridge and verge are being bedded in mortar or mechanically fixed, and what happens if more is found once the roof is open. Two quotes for the same job are usually two different jobs.
If it is leaking now
Water coming through a ceiling
Ring rather than use the form. Put a bowl under the drip, keep anything electrical away from the wet patch, and if a ceiling is bulging keep everyone out from under it. The first visit is about finding where the water gets in and making the roof weathertight, and the permanent repair is priced in writing once the fault can be seen properly. If a bungalow hip has lifted or a slate has gone from a cottage, that first visit clips, refixes or sheets it over so the rain stays out while the proper repair is priced. Scheduled work runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. For anything urgent, ring rather than use the form, and if we cannot pick up we ring you back as soon as we can.
Bartley conservation area
Patching a slate roof inside the Bartley conservation area
Bartley sits inside the Forest North East conservation area, and the National Park Authority's appraisal is specific about roofs. It describes the cottages along Chinham Road and around the junction of Bartley Road and Shepherd's Road as brick under slate, and it points out the decorative ridge tiles and bargeboards on the nineteenth century houses. It discourages concrete tiles, because their heavier profile stands out against slate and clay, and it asks that chimney stacks and pots, distinctive Fareham pots included, are kept.
That changes how a repair is done. A broken slate is replaced with natural or reclaimed slate of the same size, never a concrete or fibre cement stand-in. A crested ridge is lifted, cleaned and fixed back, not swapped for plain half round. A leaking stack gets new lead, flaunching and pointing, and taking it down is not put forward as the cheap way out. Matching what is there counts as maintenance, and a change of covering does not, so look your address up on the National Park Authority's interactive property map before anyone suggests a different material. Cadnam village sits outside the boundary, but a matched repair still looks better there too.
Who you are dealing with
A local firm you can check
Our base in Boscombe is 17.5 miles away. We work across Cadnam, Bartley and Winsor, all SO40, with the New Forest National Park Authority handling planning and New Forest District Council handling building control. You are dealing with Bournemouth Roofing & Building, the trading name of Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, which you can look up in a minute. Thomas Hannen's business, and he is the one who comes out to price the job, not a salesman. A verified customer's 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The visit and the written quote are both free.
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Questions
Questions about roof repairs in Cadnam and Bartley
One slate has slipped on our Chinham Road cottage. Tingle, or renail the slope?
If it is one or two slates and the rest sit tight, a tingle is the right repair. If slates keep coming down in different places on the same slope, the nails have rusted through across it, and stripping and renailing that slope with the sound slates reused is the repair that lasts.
Our bungalow hip is loose. Dry fix it, or bed it back in mortar?
Both are sound repairs. Bedding keeps the look of a mortar joint, with a mechanical fixing through each tile. A dry hip has no mortar left to crack and is fixed down along its length. The written quote can price the two side by side.
When is patching a seventies concrete tile roof no longer worth it?
Concrete tile often has life left in it after the felt beneath has perished. The repair or replace question turns on the underlay and battens: if the felt tears wherever a tile is lifted and the battens are soft right across a slope, patching only moves the leak along. Then a re-roof is worth pricing, and the quote can show both options.
Can you mend the leak by the chimney on a thatched cottage?
The brickwork of the stack, yes: pointing, flaunching and the pots. The thatch itself, and the join where the thatch meets the stack, is work for a specialist thatcher, because we do not thatch. If a tiled or slated lean-to butts up to the cottage, we can repair that roof and its lead.
Will a storm repair be written up so I can show my insurer?
Whether it counts as storm damage is for your insurer to decide. It is worth reading the three questions the Financial Ombudsman asks about a storm claim before you claim, and the ombudsman on gradual damage, because a hip that fell after years of cracked bedding can be treated as wear. We give you dated photographs, a written note of what failed, and an itemised quote, with any temporary sheet on its own line.
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Describe the fault and send your postcode
A slate in the gutter, grit under the hip, a ring on the ceiling: tell us what you have seen. Thomas comes out, finds the cause and writes the repair down line by line.