Your East Cheshire roofing team
East Cheshire is not one roof. The leafy SK9 belt around Wilmslow and Alderley Edge, the stone mill towns of Macclesfield and Bollington in SK10, the Peak fringe of Poynton and Disley in SK12, and Georgian Knutsford out to the west all wear different roofs and go wrong in different ways. We work on every one of them. Tell us your address and we will come and price the job properly.
Daniel Scott Roofing is family run, with an in-house team of 18 and no subcontractors, so the roofer who prices your job is the one who turns up to do it. A good share of that work is in East Cheshire: full re-roofs and repairs in natural slate, clay and concrete tile, reclaimed stone and lead, detailed to match the property rather than whatever is quickest. We turn up when we say, do the job properly, and leave it tidy.
Tap your town for local detail on the roofs, the streets and the work we do there. Do not see yours? We almost certainly still cover it, so give us a call.
We work the whole of East Cheshire, and the one thing it teaches you is that the roof in Wilmslow and the roof in Bollington have almost nothing in common.
The SK9 belt around Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Handforth is large Victorian and Edwardian villas, 1930s detached and modern executive homes, most of it under heavy mature tree cover. That means valleys that block with leaves, gutters fouled autumn after autumn, and north-facing slate that never dries out and holds moss. These are big roofs with several valleys and flat-roofed extensions on the larger homes, so there is plenty that can let water in if it is not kept on top of.
Climb towards Macclesfield and Bollington and it changes to silk-mill workers' terraces, gritstone and Kerridge stone slate, the thin sawn stone quarried on the hill above Bollington that you will not find on many other roofs. Up here it is wind-driven rain off the Pennine edge, so ridges, verges and flashings are the first to go, and slate slips and turns nail-sick on the older terraces before anything else does.
Poynton is an old colliery village of 1930s semis and post-war estates, and a lot of that concrete tile is reaching the end of its life now, going porous and shedding its surface. Push on to Disley on the edge of the Peak, under Lyme Park, and it is exposed stone cottages taking severe weather, where damp and moss are a constant fight. Different stock, different age, same need for a roofer who has worked both.
These towns sit under Cheshire East rather than Stockport, but our NFRC Competent Person certification is recognised exactly the same, so a re-roof in Alderley Edge is signed off just like one in Stockport, with nothing extra for you to arrange. What we do not do is the work the storm-chasers leave behind: a split lead bay-window roof leaking inside, a chimney gully smeared over with sealant, a job rushed because the van was only passing through.
Much of East Cheshire sits in a conservation area: the centre of Knutsford, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow and the older cores of the mill towns. That changes what a re-roof can be. The covering has to go back as it came off, the materials have to match, and the paperwork has to be right. We do this every week, so it is built into the quote, not sprung on you halfway through.
In a conservation area the roof goes back as it came off: natural slate where there was slate, stone where there was stone, the same coursing and the same detail. We match it in reclaimed or new-quarried material, so a re-roof on a Knutsford terrace still reads as original from the pavement.
On a listed building, or under an Article 4 direction, the roof is part of what is protected, so you cannot swap natural slate for concrete, cut in rooflights or change the verge detail without consent. We tell you what needs sign-off before we start, work like-for-like, and keep the original detail, so the job does not get stopped or have to come back off again.
Replace more than a quarter of a roof and it has to meet Building Regulations, which normally means a council application and an inspector. Because we are NFRC Competent Person registered, we sign the work off ourselves and hand you the certificate. No council application, no inspection fee, nothing for you to chase.
Reclaimed and new-quarried slate, stone slate, clay tile and hand-dressed lead, matched to what is already on the roof rather than whatever the wholesaler has in. The planners see like-for-like, and the street does not suddenly grow a patch of the wrong colour.
Most of this work is full re-roofs in natural slate and reclaimed stone, finished with hand-dressed lead. See our new roofs and re-roofing and lead services pages for how we go about it.
The business is led by Daniel Scott, who is on the tools and on site, not behind a desk. He prices the job, and more often than not he is the one up there doing it. On the roofs round here, where the lead detailing and the verge work are the difference between a roof that lasts and one that leaks in two winters, that hands-on standard is the whole point.
We would rather take an extra day and get the lead, the valleys and the flashings right than rush something a family will be looking at for the next forty years, and the standard holds from the first slate to the last ridge. If a repair will see you good, we will say so. If a roof is finished and only a re-roof will do, we will tell you that too, and show you why.
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“We recently had our roof replaced by Daniel Scott Roofing and we couldn't be happier with the outcome. From start to finish the entire process was smooth and efficient, thanks to the expertise and professionalism of Dan. After a previously bad experience with another roofing company, Dan was a breath of fresh air. The team were polite, friendly and incredibly skilled at their craft. We can wholeheartedly recommend Daniel Scott Roofing to anyone in need of roofing services.”
“This team are organised and helpful. We had a leak in our flat garage roof which appeared to be coming from around a failed coping stone, all repaired and re-sealed without fuss. Now drying out nicely. No cost as under the 10 year guarantee which the company supplies at the installation time. Great work!”
“Daniel Scott Roofing replaced a fibreglass roof on the extension of my property. The original roof had been poorly installed by another company. I wish I had contacted Daniel in the first place. He is friendly, courteous, professional and kept me informed of the progress of the job. His staff are also professional, cleaned up as they went along and were on time every day. I would have no hesitation in recommending Daniel Scott Roofing to anyone.”
Our yard is at Hallam Mill in Stockport, SK2, just over the border, so we are a short drive from any of these towns. Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Handforth share our SK postcodes, and we are working somewhere across East Cheshire most weeks of the year.
Yes. As well as the main towns we work the villages and the exposed properties up on the Peak and Pennine edge, around Bollington, Disley and the hills above Macclesfield, where a roof takes the full weather and the ridges, verges and flashings need detailing that actually lasts.
Yes, and a lot of the area falls under one. Across the conservation areas, listed buildings and Article 4 directions in East Cheshire we work to like-for-like materials, match the existing detail, and self-certify the building regulations in-house under our NFRC registration, so the roof matches the original and is signed off correctly.
No. You pay the same rates as any Stockport job, with the same clear, written quote and the same response time. There is nothing added on for coming out to East Cheshire.
Everything the area throws at us: natural and reclaimed slate, Kerridge and gritstone, clay and concrete tile, lead to the bays and valleys, and flat roofs in EPDM, GRP fibreglass and felt. From a Victorian villa in Alderley Edge to a 1930s semi in Poynton, it is all the same trade to us.
Tell us what the roof is doing and we will come and look, then put a clear, written quote in front of you. No pressure, no hard sell, just an honest price and an honest read on what it needs.
G6 Hallam Mill, Hallam Street,
Stockport, SK2 6PT
Serving Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Macclesfield, Knutsford and across East Cheshire.