Roofing in Post Green
Matched tile and slate repair, leadwork, re-covers, flat roofs and guttering around Post Green, Lytchett Minster and Upton.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
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The older part of Post Green is in a conservation area with listed fabric in it, so the first question is often what the finished roof has to look like. Repairing or re-covering in the same materials is maintenance and needs no application. Changing the covering is where consent comes in.
The faults are the usual ones, plus one particular to older buildings: somebody has already patched it badly and it has started letting water in again. If that is happening in your Post Green house as you read this, ring 07435 839745 and we will help you contain it. We come out, get on the roof, put our head in the roof space and photograph what we find. About nine and a half miles away, and the visit costs you nothing.
The work
The sound tiles go back on the side facing the road
Matched repairs on older roofs. Plain clay tile and natural slate, with slipped and broken units replaced in matching material rather than whatever is nearest on the merchant's shelf.
Inside the Lytchett Minster Conservation Area the match is most of the job: we strip carefully, sort what comes off, and relay the sound units on the elevation facing the road, with new stock going where the weathering difference will not show. Eighteen entries around here are listed, Post Green House among them, and on those the covering is not a free choice at all, so the address is checked before anything is ordered.
Leadwork. Chimney flashings, soakers, valleys and the abutments where the roof meets a wall, renewed in code rated lead and cut so it can move without splitting. On older buildings this is where most leaks start, and usually a better spend than anything done to the open field of the roof.
Not everything here is old. A lot of the housing went up after the war, with concrete interlocking tile where the covering is sound and the ridge bedding, verge and underlay are not. Those get screwed down under BS 5534 rather than re-bedded in mortar. There are plenty of bungalows too, and a bungalow carries more ridge and verge for the size of house than a two storey semi does.
Under any covering sit the battens, underlay and rafter feet, and on an older roof those are usually what has gone. Perished felt, soft batten ends and a wet rafter foot at the eaves are what we look for from inside, before anyone talks about a covering coming off. A single slipped slate, a lifted flashing at a stack or a drip you want traced is covered on our page for roof repairs in Post Green. Rear additions, garages and porches in felt, GRP fibreglass or EPDM rubber, deck first, then the falls, the upstands and the outlet. Gutters, downpipes, fascias and soffits: clearing moss and debris, re-fixing and renewing. Cast iron is common on the older buildings and often worth repairing rather than replacing. The ground here shrinks and swells, so a downpipe emptying beside a wall is worth putting right rather than living with. The loft, while the covering is off. Insulation, eaves ventilation and any condensation problem are far cheaper to sort with the roof open, and Approved Document L sets the standard a renovated roof is expected to reach.
How it runs
From your call to the ridge going back on
Post Green is mostly bungalows and houses built in the seventies and early eighties, roofed in concrete interlocking tiles on trussed rafters, with a few much older buildings towards Lytchett Minster in clay tile or slate. Thomas comes out, looks at yours from the ground, the eaves and the loft, and prices it himself. The strip, re-cover and clear up all come under his one written quote.
The written quote is itemised: access, the strip, battens, underlay or breathable membrane, the covering, each ridge, hip, valley and abutment, lead flashing at the chimney, and disposal. A bungalow roof usually comes off a tower or a single lift of scaffold standing on the drive, which keeps the garden and the neighbours out of it. Old tiles go into a skip as they come off, and nails and debris are swept up before we leave each day. When the covering is off and a rotten rafter foot or perished felt turns up, we send a photograph and agree the price before touching it.
Re-covering in the same material and appearance is maintenance and permitted development, and Planning Portal guidance sets out the general position. Part of the older village falls within the Lytchett Minster conservation area, and it is worth asking Dorset Council whether yours does. Inside it, swapping clay tile for concrete or slate for a lookalike needs their say. A listed roof needs listed building consent as a separate step. Dorset Council also runs building control.
Cost
What sets the price of a bungalow re-roof here
The shape of the roof counts. Bungalows from this era often have hips on every corner and a long ridge, and every hip and valley is cut and fixed by hand. A plain gable roof of the same area is quicker.
What is under the tiles. Roofs of this age were laid on bitumen felt that sags and tears at the eaves, and the battens may be sound or soft. Bringing a re-covered roof up to BS 5534, the code of practice for slating and tiling means clips on every tile at the verges and eaves and mechanically fixed ridges and hips, which takes longer than bedding them in mortar.
Matching. Some concrete tile profiles from the seventies are no longer made. A small repair may need reclaimed tiles; a larger one may make more sense as a whole slope. On an older building in the conservation area, clay tile or slate has to match what is there.
Getting up there. A bungalow is usually a tower or a low scaffold, a two storey house a full scaffold, and a chalet bungalow with dormers something in between. The work at height rules are why access is a separate line.
The chimney. Stepped lead flashing and a rebuilt pot or flaunching are priced one at a time.
Ask anyone else quoting whether the scaffold and skip are included, and whether the ridge and hips are being dry fixed or bedded.
If it is leaking now
A slipped tile or water through the ceiling
Phone us rather than using the form. Put a bowl under the drip, clear the room, and if the ceiling bulges keep out from under it. From the garden, look for a slipped tile or a gap along the ridge or hip; on a bungalow you can often see it from the drive, but do not go up a ladder yourself.
The first visit finds where it is getting in and makes it weathertight with a temporary refix or a sheet, and the proper repair is priced once it is dry. If the building is listed, that making safe is kept reversible. Booked roofing runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. When it is leaking now, ring 07435 839745, and if we are up a roof and miss you, we ring back as soon as we can.
Worth knowing
Two designations that catch people out
The Green Belt is largely irrelevant to a roof repair and very relevant the moment anyone mentions an extension or outbuilding. The second matters more than people expect: Post Green is inside the Poole Harbour nutrient neutrality catchment, which only engages where a scheme creates additional overnight accommodation.
It does not touch a re-roof, repointing, render or insulation. It engages on new homes and, in some cases, a self-contained annexe, not on an extra bedroom in the house you already have. If your roof job is really the first step of a loft conversion, say so at the survey.
Who you are dealing with
Who you get when you ring about your roof
Our base in Boscombe is about nine and a half miles from Post Green. We roof across the BH16 side of Poole, taking in Post Green, Lytchett Minster, Upton and the roads around them, and Dorset Council deals with planning and building control.
You are dealing with Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, the business Thomas Hannen owns. He is the person who comes out and prices your roof. A customer verified by Checkatrade gave us 10 out of 10. Nothing is charged for the visit, and the itemised written quote is free. Before you book a visit in Post Green, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.
Planning at a glance
Do you need planning permission in Post Green?
Most repairs in Post Green 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.
| Question | In Post Green |
|---|---|
| Who decides | Dorset Council is the planning authority for Post Green. Dorset Council's heritage pages set out what it controls. |
| Conservation area | Partly: the Lytchett Minster Conservation Area covers the older part around Post Green House and the church. Check whether your street is inside the boundary before changing anything visible. |
| Listed buildings | Yes, there are listed buildings in and around Post Green. If yours is one, work can need listed building consent. |
| Protected landscape | No National Park or National Landscape covers Post Green. |
Questions
Questions about roofing in Post Green
Are we inside the Lytchett Minster conservation area?
The older part around Post Green House and the church is, and most of the seventies housing should be checked against the boundary map. Inside the Lytchett Minster Conservation Area appearance is controlled, so replacing a covering with the same thing is maintenance while changing the material or the colour is not. Eighteen entries here are listed, Post Green House among them. Even on an unlisted house we put the exact tile or slate into the quote by name, because that is what Dorset Council will ask about.
Can the verges be sorted without re-covering the whole roof?
On most houses here, yes. Much of Post Green is post-war and was built with sand and cement verges, and those crack, drop out and let the wind under the edge tile long before the field of the roof has worn out. Taking the old mortar off and fitting a dry verge along that edge is a contained job that leaves the rest of the covering alone.
A tile came off overnight. What happens first?
It gets covered before anything else. Ring with the postcode and, if you can, a photograph from the ground. Post Green is about nine and a half miles from us, and the first visit brings sheeting and battens to hold it until the weather passes over. Then we look properly. A tile that comes off on its own has generally taken its nib or its nail with it, so we check the courses either side before deciding whether it is one tile or a slope.
Where should the downpipe be discharging on this ground?
Away from the wall, and into something that will genuinely take it. The ground through Post Green is cohesive and moves with the seasons, so a soakaway set too close to a footing keeps that spot wet all winter and then lets it dry back hard. Where the fall allows we would rather connect to a proper drain than dig a soakaway against the house. Where each pipe ends up goes on the quote.
Do you need to come inside the house at all?
For a leak, yes, because the inside tells you where the water lands and the outside tells you where it got in. We want to see the loft, the ceiling stain and, on the older properties near Post Green House, the top of the wall where the roof sits down on it. For a straight re-cover quote the outside and the loft hatch are usually enough. We say which when we book.
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