Your East Cheshire roofing team
Family-run roofers working right across East Cheshire, from the period homes of Wilmslow and Alderley Edge to the stone terraces of Macclesfield, Bollington and Knutsford. New roofs, repairs, leadwork and flat roofs, all by our own team, with no job too far. Tell us your address and we will come and price it properly.
You’ll find us on roofs all over East Cheshire most weeks, a re-roof in Wilmslow one day and a chimney up in Bollington the next.
From the big detached houses of Wilmslow and Alderley Edge, the newer estates of Handforth, out to Poynton and Disley on the Peak fringe and the SK10 mill towns of Macclesfield and Bollington, there isn’t much in the way of East Cheshire roofs we haven’t worked on.
Daniel Scott Roofing is family run, with an in-house team of 18 roofers and no subcontractors. Owner Daniel Scott is on the tools and on site, often pricing and doing the work himself, so the roofer who quotes your job is the one who turns up to do it. We’ve been on roofs in the area for over 20 years, our roofers hold City & Guilds, NVQ and CSCS qualifications and work to British Standards, and we’re fully insured for public and employers’ liability. We’re NFRC Competent Person Scheme registered, so we sign off Building Regulations ourselves, and major work carries a CORC insurance-backed 10-year guarantee that holds even if we ever cease trading.
Much of East Cheshire, under Cheshire East council, falls within conservation areas or carries listed-building status, from Knutsford to the mill-town cores, so we work like-for-like in natural slate, reclaimed stone and hand-dressed lead. We handle the full range, from new roofs and roof repairs to flat roofing, chimney repairs and leadwork, through to roof cleaning and guttering. Tell us what’s going on and we’ll come out, give you an honest read on what the roof actually needs, and put it in a free written quote.
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The full range of residential roofing, carried out by our own team. Tap any service for the detail.
Full re-roofs in natural slate, clay tile and reclaimed stone, stripped to the rafters and rebuilt from the felt up. The work the porous concrete tile on Poynton's semis and the nail-sick slate on the mill terraces eventually need.
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Code 5 and Code 6 leadwork to valleys, bay windows and abutments, dressed by hand on site. On the roofs round here the lead detailing is the difference between a roof that lasts forty years and one that leaks in two winters.
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Slipped slates, cracked flashings and failed ridges, the first things to go on the exposed hill-town roofs taking wind-driven rain off the Pennine edge. Traced to the real source and put right, not smeared over.
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Repointing, flaunching, flashings and rebuilds on the area's tall, weathered stacks. Where a gully has been sealed over instead of leaded properly, we strip it back and do it once.
Learn moreA few of the jobs we have finished around the area, from Wilmslow slate and Alderley Edge re-roofs to leadwork and chimneys in Poynton and Bollington. Tap any photo to see it full size.
“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.”
“Couldn't be more pleased with Daniel for the excellent chimney repointing and flashing. Lads on site were always happy to answer questions and even showed me picture at the end, Would recommend.”
“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.”
The same clear, itemised quote whether the roof is in Wilmslow, Macclesfield or Knutsford, and never a penny added for the East Cheshire postcode. Here is what goes into the price, and where to see real costs for each job.
If we find something not visible from the ground, such as rotten timber under the felt, we stop, show you, and agree the cost of doing it properly before carrying on. It is never quietly added to the final bill. East Cheshire is our home patch, not a call-out area, so you pay the same rates as any Stockport job. Some larger jobs need a deposit for materials and scaffolding; where that applies it is agreed up front and shown on the quote.
Real pricing detail, by job
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.
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.
Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Handforth sit on the same SK postcodes as our yard, and around a third of our work is across East Cheshire, so it is as much our patch as Stockport. We are on roofs somewhere in the area most weeks of the year, and our base at Hallam Mill in SK2 is minutes from Poynton and the SK9 towns.
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. Buying a period property over here? Our guide to roof surveys for homebuyers covers getting the roof priced or formally surveyed before you exchange.
No. You pay the same rates as any Stockport job, with the same written quote and the same response time. East Cheshire is our home patch, not a call-out area, so there is nothing added for the postcode.
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.