Roofers in Mere Green
Mere Green is our nearest neighbourhood and the most mixed. Ninety-year-old semis on one road, ten-year-old builds on the next.
What Mere Green roofs actually need
Mere Green has changed more in the last fifteen years than anywhere else we work. The older spine of it is 1930s and 1950s semis and detached, but a lot has been built, rebuilt and extended around the centre since — and that mix is why we get two completely different kinds of call from the same postcode.
From the older stock it is the usual interwar list: slipped hip tiles, tired bay roofs, fascias that have gone soft. From the newer stock it is something else entirely, and it surprises people. Modern roofs are not automatically better roofs. A 2010 build with dry-fix ridge and a factory truss should be sound for decades, but we see new-ish roofs in this area with mortar bedding that was rushed, ridge tiles that were never mechanically fixed despite the spec saying so, and flat dormer roofs done in felt that had no business being felt. A roof that is twelve years old and leaking is almost always a workmanship problem, not a material one.
Extensions are the other Mere Green speciality. There are a lot of them, and the join between an extension roof and the original house is where the water gets in. That abutment needs a proper stepped flashing chased into the brickwork. What it very often has instead is a strip of self-adhesive flashing tape stuck on the surface, which looks fine for about four winters.
Being five minutes from our yard, Mere Green gets the quickest response of anywhere on our list. If you can see a tile in the garden, ring us in the morning and there is a good chance someone looks at it that day.
What we do in Mere Green.
The pages below are written for Mere Green specifically — its housing, its materials, its problems. Not a template with the town name dropped in.
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Who you are ringingHouse was twelve years old and the loft was wet. I assumed that was just bad luck. They showed me the ridge tiles had been bedded in mortar and never mechanically fixed, which the original spec had apparently called for. Not bad luck at all — just done wrong first time. They put a dry ridge on and it's been fine since.