Roofers in Margate
Local roofers in Margate covering Cliftonville, Westbrook and the Old Town. Slate re-roofs, fibreglass flat roofs, repairs and chimney work. Free survey.
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Margate keeps us busy. We're ten minutes down the coast in Broadstairs, and between the Old Town, Cliftonville and Westbrook there's about as much variety in roofing as you'll find anywhere in Kent — Georgian parapets, enormous Victorian slate roofs, seafront flats and post-war semis, often on the same afternoon.
It's also a town where roofs get tested harder than most. Margate faces north across the Thames Estuary, so it takes weather that Broadstairs and Ramsgate are partly sheltered from. When there's a northerly blowing, the seafront gets the full force of it.
We've worked on everything here from a mosque re-roof in Spanish slate to garage flat roofs on the estates. Whatever the job, you're dealing with Colin from the first look to the last check.
What Margate roofs are up against
The seafront and Cliftonville are the challenge. A lot of those big Victorian and Edwardian properties were built as hotels and boarding houses, and many have since been split into flats. They come with steep slate roofs, deep valleys, parapet gutters hidden behind the front elevation, and lead detailing that was never designed to be ignored for forty years. When a parapet gutter fails on a building like that, the water doesn't run off the front where you'd see it. It goes straight down inside the wall.
The Old Town is different again — tighter, older, awkward to get scaffolding to, with roofs that back onto one another and shared valleys where two properties meet. Access is half the job.
Out at Westbrook, Palm Bay and Northdown you're mostly into inter-war and post-war housing: concrete tiles, shallower pitches, and a great many flat-roofed garages, dormers and extensions added over the years. That's where most of our fibreglass work in Margate happens.
The common thread is the wind. North-facing seafront roofs lose tiles and ridge caps in a way inland roofs simply don't, and salt gets into everything — nails, flashings, fixings. We replace a lot of corroded ironwork in Margate that would still have years left in it a few miles inland.
What we do in Margate
Whether it's a Victorian slate roof on the front or a garage roof on a nineteen-fifties estate, it's the same list:
- Flat & fibreglass roofing — seamless GRP flat roofs with a personal 20-year guarantee. Our biggest single line of work.
- Re-roofing — full replacements, stripped to the timbers and rebuilt properly.
- Roof repairs — storm damage, slipped tiles, leaks and failed flashings.
- Tiled & slate roofing — natural slate, artificial slate, Kent peg, clay and concrete tiles.
- Chimney repairs & repointing — repointing, flaunching, lead flashings and removals.
- Guttering, fascias & soffits — including the parapet and hidden gutters that cause so much trouble on the seafront.
- Drone roof surveys — useful on the tall Cliftonville properties where getting eyes on the roof is half the problem.
What we do in Margate
Whether it's a Victorian slate roof on the front or a garage roof on a nineteen-fifties estate, it's the same list:
- Flat & fibreglass roofing — seamless GRP flat roofs with a personal 20-year guarantee. Our biggest single line of work.
- Re-roofing — full replacements, stripped to the timbers and rebuilt properly.
- Roof repairs — storm damage, slipped tiles, leaks and failed flashings.
- Tiled & slate roofing — natural slate, artificial slate, Kent peg, clay and concrete tiles.
- Chimney repairs & repointing — repointing, flaunching, lead flashings and removals.
- Guttering, fascias & soffits — including the parapet and hidden gutters that cause so much trouble on the seafront.
- Drone roof surveys — useful on the tall Cliftonville properties where getting eyes on the roof is half the problem.
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