Crossing into east Devon
Our base is just outside Taunton, but the business has never stopped at the county line. We take on work up to about 50 miles away, and Honiton falls well within that, so we're happy to quote for anything from a handful of slipped tiles to a complete new roof.
Being a little further away doesn't change how we work. Jason still comes out in person, gets a proper look at the roof and gives you a written price before anything is booked in.
Older town houses and newer homes
Honiton's high street and the lanes around it are lined with older buildings, many of them listed or in a conservation area, while the edges of town have more modern housing. The two need quite different thinking.
On older properties, roofs often have natural slate or clay tiles, lime-based mortar and lead details that have been patched more than once over the years. The job there is to repair with materials that suit the building, and to check with the council if anything visible is changing. On newer homes, roofs are usually concrete tile with a modern membrane, and problems tend to centre on ridges, verges, valleys and any flat roof sections.
Pitched roof repairs and re-roofs
For a pitched roof, we deal with broken and slipped tiles, loose slates, cracked ridges, failing verges and storm damage. Where a roof has reached the end of its useful life, we strip it back and rebuild it with new membrane, battens, tiles or slates and leadwork. Our re-roofs page explains that process, and the roof repairs page covers smaller fixes.
Flat roofs on extensions and garages
A lot of east Devon homes have gained a kitchen extension, garage or dormer with a flat roof at some point. Those roofs work hard, and an old felt covering that has started to blister or split will eventually let water in. We replace them with EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass or felt, depending on the roof and what you want from it. Our flat roofs page compares the three.
Leadwork and chimneys
Lead is what seals the joints where a roof meets a chimney or a wall, and on older Honiton buildings it's often the first thing to fail. Lifted, cracked or poorly dressed flashings let water run behind them into the brickwork. We replace flashings and valleys, described on our lead roofing page.
Chimney stacks get the full treatment too: repointing, new flaunching, resetting pots, capping and rebuilding where needed. See chimney repairs for more.
Gutters and the roofline
Many roof problems start at the edges. A gutter that has dropped or blocked spills water down the wall, and a rotten fascia board gives the gutter nothing firm to hold on to. If your roofline is looking tired, it's worth having it checked at the same visit as the roof itself, so both can be priced together.
Booking a visit
Give us a call on 07399 680142 (weekdays 8am to 5:30pm, Saturdays 8am to 3pm) or use the enquiry form. We'll find a time to come out, and you'll receive a free written quote afterwards. We work on homes and commercial buildings alike.
If you're a little further along the A30 towards Somerset, we also have a page for roofers in Chard. The rest of our patch is listed on areas we cover.