Roof repairs and re-roofing in Watford

Housing in Watford

What the roofs here are like

Watford is the biggest and most varied place we cover, and it sits at the outer edge of our radius. Close to the centre and along the Colne valley there is dense Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing built for the printing and brewing trades - originally Welsh slate, shallow front pitches, shared valleys and party-wall stacks. Surrounding that is a very large stock of interwar semi-detached housing on the arterial roads, then extensive postwar and 1960s estate development at North Watford, Garston and South Oxhey with shallow-pitched concrete tiles and flat-roofed garages. The town centre and the former industrial sites carry modern apartment blocks and mixed-use buildings with flat and single-ply roofs.

What we get called out for

The problems that come up in Watford

Watford is at the edge of our ten miles, so we are honest about it: we take work here readily, but for a small repair we will tell you whether the callout genuinely makes sense or whether someone closer is the better answer. The work itself splits by area. The Victorian terraces bring nail sickness and shared valleys, which need your neighbour on board. The postwar estates bring concrete tiles at the end of their life and a great deal of flat roofing on garages and single-storey additions. Terraced streets near the centre mean scaffold licences and restricted access, which affects the price more than the roof does.

Working in Watford

Access, scaffold and what affects the timescale

Watford is at the far edge of our ten miles and we are straightforward about what that means. For a re-roof, a flat roof or anything taking more than a day, we are happy to travel and it makes no difference to you. For a single slipped tile, we will tell you honestly if a firm based in Watford is the more sensible call - we would rather say that than charge you for the journey. Practically, the terraced streets near the centre need pavement scaffold licences and parking permits with a few days' notice, while the outer estates have driveway access and no licences needed at all.