Roofers in Sutton Coldfield

Sutton is not one kind of housing and it never has been. Inside the same postcode you get Victorian villas near the town centre, whole streets of interwar semis, 1960s infill squeezed onto old garden plots, and 1990s closes built on land that used to be something else. We have re-roofed all of it. That range is the reason we do not quote off a photograph — a 1930s hipped roof off Jockey Road and a 1970s box a mile away have almost nothing in common beyond the postcode.

The town-centre stock is the awkward end. A lot of it has been altered more than once: a Victorian slate roof stripped in the 1970s, re-covered in concrete tile because it was cheap, and now sagging because nobody checked whether the rafters were sized for the extra weight. Concrete tile is roughly twice the weight of Welsh slate per square metre. Put it on timbers that were cut for slate and the roof will tell you about it eventually. When we survey an older Sutton roof, the first thing we do is get into the loft and look at what the last people did.

The Sutton Park side brings its own thing. Properties backing onto the park sit under mature trees, which means leaf litter in the gutters every autumn and moss on the north pitch year round. We clear more gutters within a mile of the park than anywhere else we work. It is not glamorous and it is not expensive, and it prevents a lot of the damp that people assume is a roof failure.

Because the yard is here, Sutton jobs get the shortest lead times we offer. If a tile comes off and you can see daylight, we can usually have someone on the roof the same week — often the next morning.