Up the coast
We cover Scarborough and the villages around it, from Cayton and Osgodby in the south to Scalby, Burniston and Cloughton in the north.
Scarborough has a great deal of Victorian and Edwardian housing: tall terraces with natural slate roofs, big chimney stacks and bay windows, alongside guest houses and flats near the seafront and newer estates on the edge of town.
On the cliff tops and along the seafront, roofs face the North Sea head on. On slate roofs of this age the nails often rust through, so slates start slipping one after another. Sometimes refixing them is enough; on other roofs it’s time to re-slate. We’ll tell you which, and why.
We also work for landlords and owners of flats, guest houses and holiday lets, with job sheets and photos so you can see what was done without being there.
CaytonOsgodbyScalbyBurnistonCloughtonEast AytonSeamer and the villages in between.
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Usually because the nails holding them have rusted through. Each slate hangs on nails near its top, and after decades of rain and salt air they give way, so slates slide out one after another. A few can be refixed with clips; when they’re going all over the roof, it’s the nails everywhere that have failed.
If the slates themselves are sound and only a few have slipped, a repair is enough. If lots are slipping or the slates are flaking, re-slating is usually better value than paying for repairs every winter. Good old slates can often be reused, topped up with matching ones.
New roofs and re-roofing
01 Chimney flashing
02 Dry hip on slate
03 Dry verge on an extension
04 Dry hip on red tiles
05 Dry ridge, blue sky
06 Fresh pointing
07 New red-brown tiles
08 Finished from the scaffold
We’ll come and look at your roof, then send you a quotation. No deposit, and no obligation. Or send a few photos for a quick estimate first.
