Roofers in Birchington
Roofers in Birchington-on-Sea and Minnis Bay. Fibreglass flat roofs with a 20-year guarantee, bungalow re-roofs, storm repairs and guttering. Free survey.
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Looking for roofing services in Birchington?
Birchington sits at the western end of Thanet, and it has a different feel to the bigger seaside towns — more village than resort, quieter, and with a great deal of single-storey housing.
That last part matters more than it sounds. Birchington and Minnis Bay have an unusually high proportion of bungalows and chalet bungalows, and bungalows have a particular set of roofing problems that a two-storey terrace simply doesn't.
We're twenty minutes away in Broadstairs and Birchington is well within our normal working patch.
Bungalow country, right on the coast
A bungalow has a large roof relative to the size of the building, long runs of guttering, and usually a low, shallow pitch. That combination means water moves slowly, debris collects, and any weakness has plenty of time to work. It also means there's no loft void doing you any favours — on many chalet bungalows the rooms go straight into the roof space, so a leak arrives on the ceiling almost immediately rather than dripping unnoticed into a loft for a season.
Nearly all of them have something flat attached: a garage, a porch, a rear extension, a sun room. A lot of that was built between the sixties and eighties in felt or asphalt, and it is now comfortably past its design life. Fibreglass is the obvious answer and it's most of what we do here.
Then there's the exposure. Birchington faces north across the estuary with Minnis Bay and Epple Bay open to the weather, and the western end of Thanet gets the wind coming across flat, open ground with very little to break it. Shallow-pitched roofs and high winds are a poor combination: wind gets under the tiles at the verge and lifts them. After a serious blow we get a lot of Birchington calls.
Guttering is the other steady job. Long bungalow runs sag between brackets over the years, joints pull apart, and water ends up down the wall rather than in the downpipe.
What we do in Birchington
- Flat & fibreglass roofing — garages, porches, extensions and sun rooms, with a personal 20-year guarantee.
- Roof repairs — wind-lifted tiles, verge and ridge damage, leaks.
- Guttering, fascias & soffits — long bungalow runs re-supported and re-laid to fall.
- Re-roofing — full replacements on tired bungalow roofs.
- Tiled & slate roofing — concrete, clay and slate.
- Chimney repairs & repointing
- Drone roof surveys
What we do in Birchington
- Flat & fibreglass roofing — garages, porches, extensions and sun rooms, with a personal 20-year guarantee.
- Roof repairs — wind-lifted tiles, verge and ridge damage, leaks.
- Guttering, fascias & soffits — long bungalow runs re-supported and re-laid to fall.
- Re-roofing — full replacements on tired bungalow roofs.
- Tiled & slate roofing — concrete, clay and slate.
- Chimney repairs & repointing
- Drone roof surveys
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