Roofers in Tamworth

Most of modern Tamworth was built in a hurry. From the 1960s the town took large-scale overspill development from Birmingham, and estates like Glascote, Stonydelph, Belgrave and Amington went up quickly, to a budget, in the materials of the day. That history is written all over the roofs, and it is why Tamworth work is different from Sutton work.

What we find here is concrete interlocking tile on shallow pitches, thin underlay, and — on a fair number of the 1970s builds — mortar work that was never much good to begin with. Verges are the giveaway. A mortar verge on a gable end is a maintenance item; it cracks, it lets go, and once the wind gets under the edge tile it will strip a row. On the older Tamworth estates we replace a lot of blown mortar verges with dry-verge systems, because doing it in mortar again just restarts the clock.

Tamworth is also more exposed than Sutton, and that shows. The land is flatter and more open, there is less mature tree cover breaking the wind on the newer estates, and when a westerly comes through we get noticeably more calls from Tamworth than from anywhere else on our list. Ridge tiles and verges go first. If you have a 1970s house here with the original mortar ridge, it is worth someone looking at it before the next winter rather than after.

The old core around the castle and the town centre is a different job again — older, mixed, some of it listed, and worth surveying on its own terms rather than assuming it is the same as the estate two miles away. It is not.