Full roof replacement and complete fascia, soffit and gutter renewal across Perth, Dundee, Fife and Angus. We look under the tiles before we give you a number — because in a Scottish roof, that is where the price actually lives.
By the time a stain appears on a ceiling, water has usually been getting in for two or three winters. The tile that slipped is the symptom. What matters is the timber, the sarking and the flashings underneath it — and whether the water was going somewhere it could dry out.
We only take on full replacements. Everything below is done in the same visit, on the same scaffold, so the roof is finished once.
Strip, inspect, repair or replace defective sarking and rafters, then re-roof with breathable membrane, treated battens and your chosen tile or slate. Dry ridge and dry verge as standard — mortar bedding is what fails first in a Scottish winter, and it is not worth the small saving.
Renewal in uPVC over sound timber, or full replacement of rotten fascia board and rafter feet where the water has already got in. Black half-round guttering on white board is the combination that still looks right in ten years. Done with the roof, the scaffold is already there.
Repointing, flaunching, cowls, and properly dressed lead soakers and step flashings. Most persistent chimney leaks are not the stack at all — they are cement fillets used where lead was needed, which crack every winter and are patched every spring.
Topping up loft insulation is cheap and effective — but only if the roof is ventilated to match. Insulating a cold loft without eaves ventilation moves the condensation into the timber, where you cannot see it. If we are on the roof anyway, this is the moment to get both right.
If solar is anywhere in your plans, the roof comes first. Fitting panels to a roof with ten years left in it means paying twice: once for the array, and again to remove and refit it. We will tell you honestly which order makes sense, even when that means you do not buy the panels this year.
Roof + solar →Marley and Russell roof tiles, breathable membrane, BS 5534 treated battens, dry-fix ridge and verge systems and VELUX rooflights — bought locally, so replacements match in twenty years.
You will have seen roofs advertised from around £5,950. Those are real prices for real jobs — the smallest, simplest, nothing-unexpected-underneath version of a roof. The problem is not the number. The problem is what a “from” price does not include, and that you only find out afterwards.
And if a rival quote comes in lower, bring it to us. We will go through it line by line and tell you what is missing from it. Sometimes nothing is, and they should get the job. You are better off knowing which one it is.
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Stripped to the rafters, re-felted, re-battened and re-tiled. Drag the handle on the first picture.
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Fitted with the manufacturer’s own flashing kit and dressed into the tile courses around it. A rooflight bedded in mastic will look identical on handover day and leak within a few winters, because mastic moves and the roof does too.
The edge over the gable takes the wind-driven rain, and it is the detail most often left to a bead of cement that cracks off in a few years. Finished properly it throws water clear of the wall head instead of into it.
Work like this rarely fails in the middle of a roof or the middle of a wall. It fails where two trades meet. The render stops at the eaves and the roofer starts at the eaves, and the bit in between gets whatever each of them thought the other was doing.
That is not a problem caused by poor tradesmen. It is good tradesmen working to separate designs that were never reconciled with each other. Doing the roofline, the render and the insulation under one contractor removes the argument entirely, because there is only one person to hold responsible — and it is usually cheaper too, since the scaffold goes up once instead of twice. See rendering & external wall insulation →
We get up on the roof and into the loft — not a look from the pavement. You get photographs of what we found, whether or not you go ahead.
Itemised, with the exclusions written down rather than left implied, and the scope agreed before you commit.
Access up, roof stripped, deck inspected. Anything unexpected is photographed and priced before it is touched.
Membrane, battens, tiles, dry fixings, flashings and roofline. Site cleared, and you walk the job with us before the final invoice.
We only take on full roof replacements. If the survey shows your roof still has years left in it, we will tell you, and you are better getting a repairer in than spending on a roof you do not need yet. A replacement is the right call when the sarking or battens have gone, when the same fault keeps coming back, or when you are about to spend money on something — solar, an extension, a re-render — that you do not want to disturb later.
A typical semi-detached is three to five working days on the roof once the scaffold is up, plus a day either side for access. Weather moves it — we do not strip a roof we cannot make watertight the same day, and we will not pretend otherwise to hold a date.
You get photographs, an explanation, and a price, before anything is replaced. Some allowance for defective timber is built into the quote precisely so that small findings do not become a renegotiation. Anything beyond that is your decision, made with the roof open and the evidence in front of you.
Anything beyond a single tile needs proper access. Working at height off ladders is how people get hurt and how work gets rushed, and it is not something we will do to save a line on a quote. Scaffolding is priced openly as its own item so you can see exactly what it costs.
Almost always yes. Panels fitted to a roof with under fifteen years left in it mean paying to remove and refit them later, and render taken up to a failing roofline has to be cut back into. If we think your roof will happily see out the panels, we will say so — the point of asking is to get the order right, not to add a job.
Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed in writing, and the tiles, membrane and roofline products carry their own manufacturer guarantees, which we register for you and hand over with the paperwork. The written quote states which guarantee covers what — we would rather be specific than say “fully guaranteed” and leave you to find out what that meant.
Free survey, photographs of what we find, and an itemised written quote. We only quote for full roof replacement — so if your roof does not need one yet, we will tell you that instead.
Free survey. Tell us what the job is — we reply within one working day to book the visit.
