Roofers in Broadstairs

Local roofers in Broadstairs with 20+ years' experience. Flat & fibreglass roofs, re-roofing, repairs and chimney work. Rated 5.0 on Google. Free survey.

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Broadstairs is home for us. Frampton Roofing is based here, and most weeks you'll find our van parked on a street somewhere between Viking Bay and Botany — because this is where we started, and it's still where a good part of our work comes from.

Colin Frampton has been roofing for over twenty years, fifteen of them working with specialist fibreglass, and in that time we've been up on just about every kind of roof the town has to offer. Victorian bay-fronted terraces near the front. Nineteen-thirties semis up towards St Peter's. Flat-roofed garages and kitchen extensions. And the odd seafront property that takes a proper battering every winter.

When you call a roofer in Broadstairs, you shouldn't get a call centre and a salesman. You get Colin — the same person who comes out to look at the roof, prices the work, and stands behind it afterwards.

Roofs in Broadstairs: what we see most

Broadstairs is a lovely place to live and a demanding place to be a roof. We're on a chalk headland sticking out into the North Sea, and the weather comes in off the water with nothing much to slow it down. Salt-laden wind, driving rain, and the occasional storm that finds every weak point on a roof in a single night.

The housing stock doesn't make it any easier. A lot of the town is Victorian and Edwardian — bay windows, steep pitches, tall chimney stacks and plenty of lead detailing around valleys and parapets. Those roofs were built properly, but a hundred years of weather takes its toll on mortar, flashings and cement fillets long before it troubles the slates.

Further out, around St Peter's, Dumpton and Botany, you get inter-war and post-war semis with concrete tiles and shallower pitches, plus the garages, dormers and flat-roofed extensions that were added on later. Flat roofs are where we spend a lot of our time. Plenty of them were originally felt or asphalt, and once those start to go there's rarely much point patching them.

The jobs we're called out to most in Broadstairs are fairly consistent: slipped or wind-lifted tiles after a gale, leaks tracking down from a chimney with failed flashings, cracked cement fillets, blocked or sagging gutters, and flat roofs that have blistered and split. Closer to the sea at Kingsgate, Joss Bay and Stone Bay we see more salt and wind damage than we do a mile inland — exposed gable ends and chimney stacks take the worst of it.


Roofs in Broadstairs: what we see most

Broadstairs is a lovely place to live and a demanding place to be a roof. We're on a chalk headland sticking out into the North Sea, and the weather comes in off the water with nothing much to slow it down. Salt-laden wind, driving rain, and the occasional storm that finds every weak point on a roof in a single night.

The housing stock doesn't make it any easier. A lot of the town is Victorian and Edwardian — bay windows, steep pitches, tall chimney stacks and plenty of lead detailing around valleys and parapets. Those roofs were built properly, but a hundred years of weather takes its toll on mortar, flashings and cement fillets long before it troubles the slates.

Further out, around St Peter's, Dumpton and Botany, you get inter-war and post-war semis with concrete tiles and shallower pitches, plus the garages, dormers and flat-roofed extensions that were added on later. Flat roofs are where we spend a lot of our time. Plenty of them were originally felt or asphalt, and once those start to go there's rarely much point patching them.

The jobs we're called out to most in Broadstairs are fairly consistent: slipped or wind-lifted tiles after a gale, leaks tracking down from a chimney with failed flashings, cracked cement fillets, blocked or sagging gutters, and flat roofs that have blistered and split. Closer to the sea at Kingsgate, Joss Bay and Stone Bay we see more salt and wind damage than we do a mile inland — exposed gable ends and chimney stacks take the worst of it.


What we do in Broadstairs

We're a small local firm, so we'd rather cover a handful of things properly than everything badly. Here's what we get called out for:

  • Flat & fibreglass roofing — our speciality. Seamless GRP fibreglass flat roofs backed by our personal 20-year guarantee, on garages, extensions, dormers and balconies.
  • Re-roofing — full roof replacements, stripped back to the timbers, with new membrane, battens and tiles.
  • Roof repairs — leaks, storm damage and slipped tiles: the things that need sorting this week rather than next year.
  • Tiled & slate roofing — Kent peg and clay tiles, natural and artificial slate, and concrete tiles.
  • Chimney repairs & repointing — repointing, flaunching, lead flashings, cement fillets and chimney removals.
  • Guttering, fascias & soffits — clearing, repairing and replacing rainwater goods before they cause damage inside the house.
  • VELUX & roof window installation — fitted by roofers and flashed properly, so they stay watertight.


Just along the coast

We're based in Broadstairs, but we cover the whole of Thanet and out across East Kent. If you're just outside the town, try these:

Featured project

A full re-roof in Botany, Broadstairs

One of our recent Broadstairs jobs was a full re-roof in Botany, and it's a good example of what doing the job properly actually involves.

A re-roof isn't just the tiles you can see from the street. We stripped it back, fitted a breathable membrane, sorted the timber, re-tiled, rebuilt the ridges and dealt with the lead detailing. The property also had a flat-roof dormer and a new VELUX roof window fitted, so the flat and pitched elements had to tie together cleanly and stay watertight where they meet — which is exactly where a lot of roofs let water in.

It's finished, and the home underneath it is protected for decades to come.

TESTIMONIALS

What our customers think

We're rated 5.0 out of 5 from over 110 Google reviews, and we were named a Nextdoor Neighbourhood Faves winner in 2023 — by customers here in Broadstairs and across Thanet.

We're not trying to be the biggest roofer in Kent. We'd rather be the one your neighbour recommends without having to think about it.

GET IN TOUCH

Get a free roof survey in Broadstairs

If something's leaking, or you just want an honest opinion on how much life your roof has left in it, give us a call. We'll come and look, tell you straight what we find, and only if needed, put a written estimate together. No pressure and no sales patter.

Frampton Roofing Ltd
Call Colin on 07771 269291
Email info@framptonroofing.uk
Broadstairs, Kent

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions we get asked in Broadstairs

Here are a few frequently asked questions we get from customers in Broadstairs. If you have another question in mind, please do get in touch and let us know, we'll do our best to answer!


My garage flat roof is leaking. Repair or replace?

If it's an isolated split in an otherwise sound roof, a repair is worth doing. If it's a felt roof from the seventies or eighties that's blistering across the whole area with water sitting on it, you're spending money to delay the inevitable. We'll look and give you a straight answer either way — there's no point us fitting a new roof you didn't need.

How quickly can you get to me?

We're based in the town, so for anything urgent in Broadstairs we can usually be with you fast. Active leaks get priority, and we can normally make something watertight straight away even if the permanent repair needs booking in.

Does being near the sea really make a difference to my roof?

More than most people expect. Salt corrodes nails, screws, brackets and flashings, and it shortens the life of anything metal by years compared with the same house inland. Out at Kingsgate, Joss Bay and Stone Bay we routinely replace fixings that would still be sound in Canterbury. It's why we specify more mechanical fixing on exposed Broadstairs roofs than the standard would call for.

I keep losing tiles every winter in the same spot. Why?

Almost always a fixing or detailing problem rather than bad luck. Wind gets under the tiles at an exposed verge or ridge and lifts them, and if that edge was only bedded in mortar rather than mechanically fixed, it will keep happening. Sorting the detail properly costs more than replacing three tiles, and it stops you doing it every year.

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Our Areas of Service

Along with Broadstairs, we work across many different areas of Kent. If your area isn't listed here, please drop us a line.

Broadstairs

Margate

Ramsgate

Thanet

Canterbury