Roofing Specialists
in Hampshire

Basingstoke, Andover, Eastleigh and much of Hampshire's post-war and late-20th-century housing carries concrete interlocking tiles. These delaminate, lose their surface coating and become porous, while the bitumen felt underlay beneath goes brittle and tears at the eaves.

The roof can look fine from the road while the second line of defence has gone. Once felt has failed, any wind-driven rain past the tile lands on your ceiling — which is why renewal, not patching, is often the honest answer on these roofs.

Portsmouth, Gosport, Fareham, Southampton Water and Hayling take strong salt-laden onshore wind. Fixings corrode, verges and ridges lift, and slate nails fail faster than they would inland.

Coastal Hampshire roofs need mechanical fixings and periodic checks after named storms. Our 24/7 emergency line exists for the nights when that check comes too late.

Inland Hampshire is not sheltered. Open downland around Winchester, Petersfield and the Test and Itchen valleys gives high exposure ratings, and mortar-bedded ridges and verges on those plots crack and blow.

Dry-fix ridge, hip and verge details clip each unit mechanically. On an exposed Hampshire plot that difference decides whether you are calling a roofer every winter.

Portsmouth and Southampton have large areas of dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces with slate roofs, shared valleys, parapets and rear additions — plus significant post-war rebuilding stitched into the same streets.

Nail sickness, split valley lead and failed abutments to later extensions are the usual faults. Water often travels along a rafter before it appears, so the survey has to follow it back rather than repair under the stain.

Hampshire estate housing has been extended extensively, and most of those extensions bring a flat roof and a new abutment to the main wall.

Failures cluster at upstands, abutment flashings and shallow falls that let water pond. We look at the deck and the falls, not just the top surface, and specify felt, EPDM, single ply or GRP to suit the roof.

Spray foam insulation was sold widely across Hampshire lofts. Surveyors cannot inspect the timber beneath it and many lenders will not lend on it, which stops sales and re-mortgages outright.

We remove the foam and reinstate the roof so the structure can be seen again. No certificate is issued for the removal itself, but every removal we have carried out has been signed off by building control and surveyors without issue.