Roofing in Boldre

The stain on a ceiling is rarely under the hole. A leak gets chased to its entry point before anything is fixed. If all you have is one slipped slate, a lifted flashing or a single leak to find, that is covered on our page for roof repairs in Boldre. Most of what stands in the parish went up after the war and through the 1980s, so concrete interlocking tile is the covering on most roofs here.

Cottages along the lanes are different animals: plain tile, clay tile or natural slate, battens over felt, nothing like a sarking board underneath. Stone slate is not a Hampshire covering and we will say so if a quote claims otherwise. Thatch belongs to a thatcher, and ours ends at the tiling and the flashing that runs up to it.

Ridge, hips and verges. On a roof of that vintage the tiles are generally fine and the mortar holding the edges down is not. It cracks, water gets behind it, frost opens it further, and eventually a hip tile is sitting on nothing much. Rather than re-bed a detail that has already failed once, we take it off and put a dry ridge and dry verge back, screwed through into a ventilated roll. That is the mechanically fixed edge BS 5534 calls for, and it ventilates the apex of the loft as a by-product.

Rusted nails, batten ends gone soft and an underlay that tears in your fingers tend to arrive as a set. Everything comes off, rafter feet that have sat wet get cut back to sound timber, then treated battens over a breathable membrane, a matched tile and stainless nails through the perimeter courses. Have it priced beside the repair before you decide.

Garages, rear extensions and porches in felt, GRP fibreglass or EPDM rubber, where a soft deck, a fall running the wrong way or an outlet sitting proud of the finished level will finish any of the three early, so the deck gets opened before a covering is discussed. Chimney flashings, soakers, valleys and the abutment where an extension butts into the original slope go in code rated lead, run in short enough lengths to expand without tearing.

Shaded lanes mean moss and algae on the north slopes, and what washes off packs the gutter and the valley beneath it, so clearing debris is maintenance, not repair, and low runs come off a tower instead of a scaffold. With the covering off, insulation, eaves ventilation and a long standing condensation problem can all be dealt with for very little, and Approved Document L is the standard a renovated roof is meant to reach.

A Boldre roof has no rate per square metre. The area is the easiest thing to measure and it tells you least about the job.

What is on it now. Most houses in Boldre went up between the fifties and the noughties, and the eighties terraces and semis mostly wear concrete interlocking tiles. Those tiles last. What gives out first is the old bitumen felt underneath, which sags and tears, and the battens it hangs from. The older cottages round the parish carry clay tiles or slate, and they are a slower strip because every sound tile is set aside to go back on.

The weather side. The most exposed walls in Boldre face south west, and wind lifts a roof at its edges, not in the middle. Dry verges, ridge fixings and the tile clips that the British Standard for slating and tiling expects on an exposed site are where a careful quote spends its time.

Getting the scaffold in. A terrace fronting a road is straightforward. A house down a gravel track too narrow for the lorry means unloading short and carrying it in, and the platform stands for the whole job, so it is its own line under the work at height rules.

Stacks and valleys. Each chimney is priced separately: the lead flashings and soakers, and whether the pots and flaunching need rebuilding. Valleys are the same.

Hold any other quote in Boldre to the same detail. Are the underlay and battens being renewed or left? What lead is going on the chimney? Does the scaffold hire cover the whole job or just the first week?

Boldre is about thirteen miles from our base in Boscombe, and we cover the village with Pilley, Bull Hill, Portmore, Norleywood and South Baddesley, out towards Lymington and Brockenhurst. Planning here sits with the New Forest National Park Authority; building control is New Forest District Council’s.

The firm is Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 15471719, which you can look up on Companies House. It is Thomas Hannen’s business, and Thomas is the one who climbs the ladder and writes your price. One verified customer has scored us 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The site visit costs nothing, and neither does the itemised written quote. Before you book a visit in Boldre, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

Most repairs in Boldre need no application at all. What decides whether a change to the outside of your house does is who the council is, whether a conservation area or a listing applies, and whether the place sits in a protected landscape.