Roof Repairs & Leak Detection in Stockport & East Cheshire

Roof Repair Services We Carry Out Across Stockport & East Cheshire

Every repair we quote starts with a proper diagnosis. That means walking the roof where it's safe to, inspecting the loft, and tracing the leak back to its actual entry point, not the symptom. You'll get a written report with photographs of what we've found, then a clear quote covering exactly what needs doing. No hard sell, no scope creep once we've started.

• Leaking Roof Detection & Repair

  Some leaks announce themselves clearly. A tile down after a storm, a split in a lead apron, an obvious crack in the chimney flaunching: these we can usually pinpoint on the first survey and price up the same day.

  Then there are the awkward ones. The leak that only shows up in heavy rain. The damp patch that moves around the room. The one two other roofers have already “fixed” twice, and it keeps coming back.

  Tracing these is its own discipline, and it's where we differ from most of the trade. We inspect the roof externally first, then go through the loft systematically with a torch, looking for the trail water leaves on rafters, battens and underlay. Where access allows, we'll get on the roof itself. On stubborn or complex jobs, we'll run a hose test: controlled water across different sections of the roof while watching the loft for where it appears.

  The diagnosis goes into a written report with photographs, and we'll walk you through it before quoting. See our full process for what that looks like step by step. If the source of the leak turns out to be a flat roof, see flat roof & garage roof repairs below, different system, different approach.

• Same-Day Leak Stop

  Got a Leak? We Stop It Today.

  Call us and we'll make your roof watertight the same day, guaranteed dry while you wait. If the leak returns before the full repair is finished, we come back free of charge. The first job is stopping the water: a temporary tarp where the covering's been breached, a secured ridge if tiles have come loose, a capped chimney if a pot's gone, or sealed flashings if there's an active drip into the loft. Beyond the immediate weatherproofing we trace the source, scope the proper fix, and quote it honestly. If a repair will hold for the long term, we'll tell you; if the roof is genuinely at the end of its life and a repair is throwing money at a lost cause, we'll tell you that too. Response is usually same or next working day across Stockport, Marple, Hazel Grove, Poynton, and Wilmslow.

  If the damage came from a storm and you'll be claiming on insurance, see storm damage roof repairs & insurance claims below for how we handle that side of it.

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• Missing & Broken Tile Replacement

  The most common repair we carry out, and one that gets put off too often. A single slipped tile or cracked slate is a hole in the roof. Water reaches the underlay, then the battens, then over time the timber structure itself. Left long enough, what could've been a £150 fix becomes a major repair.

  We carry concrete tiles, clay tiles, and reclaimed slates to match what's already on your roof. On older property, particularly the Edwardian and Victorian terraces across the Heatons, Edgeley and the conservation areas of Marple, getting the slate match right matters as much for how the finished job looks from the street as for the watertightness of the repair. On heritage and listed property, our new roofs and re-roofing service covers the consent and material-matching side of it.

  If we're up there for one tile and we spot half a dozen others on the way out, we'll show you the photographs and let you decide. Honest fix, no upsell, but no leaving things we know are about to fail either.

  Where the damage is widespread enough that ongoing tile-by-tile repairs no longer make financial sense, we'll be straight with you about it. See our roof replacement page for the full re-roof side of things.

• Ridge Tile Repair & Re-pointing

  Ridge tiles sit along the apex of the roof, traditionally bedded in a sand-and-cement mortar. The mortar bed is the weak point: it cracks from thermal movement, frost gets into the cracks, and bit by bit the bond breaks down. The first sign is usually mortar fragments on the path or driveway after wind. Eventually a ridge tile slips, lifts, or comes off entirely, and once that happens, the gap underneath is one of the largest water entry points anywhere on the roof.

  We carry out two types of work here. The first is re-bedding existing ridge tiles, lifting them, cleaning off the old mortar, and re-bedding in fresh mortar with a proper weather seal and pointing. This is the right answer when the ridge tiles themselves are sound and the structure's solid.

  The second is upgrading to a dry ridge system, mechanically fixed ridge tiles with no mortar at all. Dry ridge meets current British Standards (BS 5534), doesn't crack the way mortar does, won't need re-pointing in fifteen years' time, and is now the standard finish on any new-build or full re-roof. On most properties built before about 2015 the ridge is still mortar-bedded, and the upgrade is one of the most cost-effective long-term improvements you can make to an older roof.

  We'll talk you through both options at survey and price each so you can compare.

• Roof Flashing Repair

  Where the roof meets a wall, a chimney, another roof, or the side of an extension, lead flashings handle the join. They're also the most common source of persistent leaks we trace, and the part of the roof cheap repair quotes tend to skim past.

  We carry out the full range: replacement step flashings on chimneys and abutments, lead aprons, back gutters and soakers, valley re-leading, and full re-flashing where existing leadwork's reached the end of its life. Where the existing lead is salvageable, we'll re-dress it and re-point. Where it isn't, we replace in the correct lead code (thickness) for the application, typically code 4 for soakers, code 5 for step flashings and valleys, code 6 for back gutters and chimney aprons. Going under-spec on lead grade is one of the main reasons cheap flashing repairs come back within a few years. For full leadwork specs and bay-roof leadwork, see our lead services page.

  Flashing work and chimney work are usually quoted together, the leadwork around a chimney depends on the brickwork it's keyed into, and vice versa. See chimney repairs below for that side of it.

• Chimney Repairs

  Chimney stacks take more weather than any other part of the roof. They're exposed on all four sides, they're full of joints, pointing, flaunching, flashings, pot fittings, and every one of those joints is a potential point of failure.

  We carry out: re-pointing of crumbling mortar joints (a major cause of damp running down a chimney breast), re-flaunching of the mortar weatherings on top of the stack, pot replacement for cracked or loose pots, lead tray installation to handle internal damp travel through the stack, and full chimney rebuilds where the brickwork itself is too far gone for cosmetic repair. The full range of stack work is detailed on our dedicated chimney services page.

  If your chimney's leaking through several different routes at once, we'll have an honest conversation about whether a rebuild makes more financial sense than ongoing patches. A patched chimney that leaks again the following winter is dead money.

  Chimney work nearly always involves leadwork, see roof flashing repair above for how the two interact. For unused or redundant chimney stacks, removal is also an option we can quote separately.

• Storm Damage Roof Repairs & Insurance Claims

  Storm damage doesn't follow a schedule. High winds across Stockport and the foothills of the Peak District take tiles, lift ridge sections, and bring down chimney pots, sometimes all in the same night. The impact spans pitched roofs, flat roofs, fascias and gutters, and we handle the lot.

  The repair side is straightforward: emergency make-safe first (see emergency roof repairs), full inspection second, permanent fix third.

  The insurance side is where most people lose time and money. Most home insurance policies cover storm damage but exclude general wear and tear, and the line between the two is exactly where claims get argued. We provide a written diagnostic report with photographs in the format insurers ask for, an itemised repair quote, and, where it helps, independent confirmation that the damage is consistent with the storm event rather than pre-existing. We've worked with most of the major insurers and we know what they want to see.

  For disputed claims or cases where a more detailed structural assessment is needed, we also provide formal insurance and expert-witness roof reports as a separate service.

• Flat Roof & Garage Roof Repairs

  Flat roof leaks behave differently to pitched roof leaks. Water doesn't track far across a flat surface, but the failure points are different, and the repair approach is different too.

  The common ones: splits at the upstand around an extension, blistered felt that's perished in the sun, ponding water that's broken down the surface coating, lifted edges where the original detailing was poor, and seam failures on older felt systems.

  We repair all the main systems: high-performance felt, EPDM rubber, and GRP fibreglass. Sometimes a repair is the right call. Sometimes the system has had its life and you're throwing money at a roof that needs replacing, and we'll tell you straight which is which.

  For more on flat roof systems, replacement options, and the warm-deck construction we use on extensions, see our dedicated flat roofing page.