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Answered same daySlate & lead specialists · Greater Manchester
A roof you never have to think about.
Heritage slate, lead and tile, fitted by a directly employed crew. Fixed written quote inside 48 hours. Scaffold, waste and VAT included, so the number we give you is the number you pay.
No call centre. You speak to Dan, who climbs the ladder.
16 yrsOn Manchester roofs since 2009
1,400+Roofs completed and signed off
4.9 Across 312 verified reviews
£5mPublic liability cover
NFRC Member
CompetentRoofer registered
TrustMark government endorsed
CHAS accredited contractor
Marley approved installer
SafeContractor approved
Welsh slate trained
What is actually up there
Six layers. Miss one
and the roof fails.
Most quotes price the tiles. A roof is everything underneath them. Here is every layer we fit, and the two the cheapest quote quietly leaves out.
- Structural deck & raftersEvery rafter checked for rot and sistered where needed. Putting this right later means taking the whole roof off twice.
- Breathable membraneReplaces the old bitumen felt that sags and traps damp. Lets the roof space breathe and stops wind-driven rain.
- Treated battensBS 5534 graded and tanalised. A cheap quote reuses your existing battens. They are forty years old and holding the roof on.
- Natural slate or tileWelsh slate, clay or concrete, mechanically fixed to the wind-uplift standard for the North West, not nailed and hoped for.
- Code 4 leadworkChimneys, valleys and abutments hand-dressed in lead. Cement fillets crack within two winters. Lead outlives the roof.
- Dry ridge & hipMechanically fixed, never bedded in mortar. Mortar ridges are our single most common storm call-out.
Everything above the gutter line.
01
Full re-roof
Strip, inspect, re-felt, re-batten and re-cover. Five to nine days on a typical Manchester semi.
02
Slate & tile repair
Slipped, cracked or missing. Usually same week, often same day if the ladder fits.
03
Leadwork & flashings
Chimneys, valleys, dormers and parapets. Code 4 and 5, hand-dressed on site.
04
Flat roofing
GRP fibreglass and single-ply for extensions, dormers and garages. Twenty year membrane.
05
Guttering & fascias
Seamless aluminium and uPVC. No more leaking joint above the front door.
06
Storm make-safe
Boarded, sheeted and watertight, usually within four hours. Insurance paperwork handled.
Saddleworth, OL3.
1900s cottage, re-covered.
Three roofers had told the owner it needed patching. It needed stripping. Only a third of the original stone slates were sound enough to re-lay, so the owner chose an interlocking tile. We re-used the best of the old slates on the porch.
Before you ring anyone
Point at what
your roof is doing.
Six faults account for nearly every call we take. Here is what each one actually is, how urgent it really is, and what it costs to put right. No email address, no obligation.
Recent jobs
Roofs you can
go and look at.
Every job below is within twelve miles of the yard. Ask us for the address and we will happily give you it.
Standing seam zinc
Chorlton, M21
Full re-cover, 118 m², 9 days on site
Slate mansard
Prestwich, M25
Listed building, reclaimed Westmorland
Storm damage
Sale, M33
Made safe in 3 hours, repaired same week
Leadwork
Whalley Range, M16
Dormer re-clad in Code 5, hand-dressed on site
How we work
Five steps. No surprises.
We survey it properly
Ladder up, head into the loft, drone over the ridge if the pitch is too steep to walk. You get photographs of everything we find, including the parts that are fine.
Within 3 working daysA fixed price in writing
One number, itemised. Scaffold, waste, materials and VAT all inside it. No provisional sums that quietly grow once the roof is open.
Within 48 hours of the surveyScaffold and strip
Your neighbours get a card through the door the week before. Garden and paths sheeted, skip on the drive, crew on site at 8am on the date we agreed.
The booked date, heldSign off and guarantee
We walk the finished job with you, hand over photographs of every layer that is now hidden, and register the work so your building control notification arrives by post.
25-year workmanship certificateWhat does a re-roof actually cost?
Nobody will tell you. So here is our real pricing, built from 1,400 completed jobs. Four taps, no email address, no phone call.
Indicative range
£6,300 – £7,600
Semi-detached, concrete tile, simple pitch. Around 62 m² of roof.
- Full scaffold, erected and struck
- All waste, skips and tip fees
- New breathable membrane and treated battens
- Building control notified for you
- VAT at 20%
An indicative range only, not a quote and not binding. Roofs vary and we have never priced one from a website. We measure it, then we put a number in writing.
Two firms quoted off a photograph. Dan went in the loft and found what neither of them mentioned.
Helen B., Didsbury · 4.9 from 312 verified reviews
Quoted in writing two days after the survey, with photographs of the rot they found. Scaffold went up on the date they said. The price never changed.
David R.Urmston, M41 · full re-roof
Storm took four slates off on the Sunday. Someone was on the roof before teatime and it was properly repaired that Thursday. I have used them twice since.
Marcus K.Sale, M33 · storm repair
Listed building, so the conservation officer was involved. They handled all of that correspondence themselves and matched the Westmorland slate exactly. Faultless.
Joanna A.Prestwich, M25 · mansard restoration
Where we work
Greater Manchester,
and about 20 miles out.
We do not travel further, on purpose. A twenty mile radius means we can get back to a roof we fitted eight years ago the same week you ring about it. That is what a guarantee is worth.
- Manchester
- Salford
- Stockport
- Trafford
- Bury
- Bolton
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Tameside
- Wigan
- Wilmslow
- Altrincham
The questions
we get asked.
Not on the list? Ring the yard on 0161 496 0118 and ask.
How much does a new roof cost in Manchester?
Between roughly £5,500 and £9,000 for a standard semi-detached in concrete tile, and £9,000 to £14,000 in natural slate, with scaffold and VAT included. A terrace is less, a detached with dormers is more. The calculator above uses our real figures.
How long will my roof be open?
We only ever strip what we can make watertight the same day. On a typical semi that is one elevation at a time, so your roof is never fully open overnight. Whole job is five to nine working days including scaffold.
Is the scaffolding included in the price?
Yes, always. Erection, hire for the duration and removal. It is the single most common thing added on afterwards by other firms, so we build it into the fixed price and show it as a line on your quote.
What happens if it rains halfway through?
The roof gets sheeted and made watertight before the crew leaves, every day, rain forecast or not. If weather costs us days, it costs us, not you. The price is fixed.
Do I need building regulations approval?
Yes, if more than a quarter of the roof is being replaced. We are CompetentRoofer registered, so we self-certify and notify your local authority for you. Your certificate arrives by post, usually inside three weeks. There is no extra fee.
Is the 25-year guarantee actually worth anything?
It is a written workmanship guarantee, insurance-backed through the NFRC, which means it survives even if we do not. Materials carry their own manufacturer warranty on top. We stay inside twenty miles precisely so honouring it is easy.
Get a fixed quote
Tell us what
the roof is doing.
Three details. We ring back the same day with a real answer, and if it is something you can sort yourself for forty quid we will tell you that too.
- Answered the same working dayBefore 4pm, usually within the hour.
- No pressure, no sales visitWe survey, we price, we email it. You decide in your own time.
- Your details stay hereWe do not sell leads on. You will not get six other roofers ringing.