Knighton

A full pitched re-roof in Knighton, with a repointed chimney and a new bay roof

Ageing concrete tiles, rotting battens and nail rot had made repairs to this Knighton family home no longer worth doing. Over twelve days we stripped and re-covered the main roof and rear extension, repointed and reflaunched the chimney, refelted the bay window in a single-layer system, and fitted new soffits and fascias — backed by a 20-year workmanship guarantee on the main roof areas.

The finished main roof slope: new red-brown tiles running up to a dry ridge system, a black soil vent pipe dressed with new flashing near the top, and rooftops of neighbouring houses beyond.The rear roof before work: aged concrete tiles thick with moss and algae, a brick chimney stack with a television aerial, and a flat-roofed extension below, with scaffold poles along the wall.
Location
Knighton
Completed
2023
Workmanship guarantee
20 years (at time of works)
Work
Flat Roofing, Pitched Roofing, Chimney Work, Guttering, Fascias & Soffits

How it went

From the first scaffold board to the finished roof.

The roof before work: weathered grey concrete interlocking tiles across a hipped slope, a brick chimney stack with a television aerial, and scaffold boards along the eaves under a cloudy sky.The rear roof before work: aged concrete tiles thick with moss and algae, a brick chimney stack with a television aerial, and a flat-roofed extension below, with scaffold poles along the wall.The roof partly stripped: old tiles removed from one hip to expose bare timber battens and boarding underneath, with the rest of the slope still tiled and a two-flue chimney stack behind.New breathable membrane laid across the rafters with fresh battens on top, the valley left open ahead of the leadwork, and the brick chimney stack rising behind.The hip roof half stripped: old tiles still along one side, fresh breathable membrane and battens on the other, meeting at the chimney stack with its pots.The finished roof over the rear extension: new red-brown interlocking tiles laid up to a dry ridge system with black union clips, and a dormer window below the scaffold.The finished main roof slope: new red-brown tiles running up to a dry ridge system, a black soil vent pipe dressed with new flashing near the top, and rooftops of neighbouring houses beyond.The finished hip and dry ridge on the main roof, seen along the scaffold boards towards the street, with a neighbouring property and a parked car below under a clear blue sky.
Before01 / 08

Worn concrete tiles, repairs no longer viable

The old roof had plain concrete tiles and had reached the point where a renewal was really the only worthwhile option. Tiles were breaking, some of the battens underneath had started to rot, and nail rot had set into the tiles themselves — repairs weren't cost-effective any more.

We'd already worked on this house. Previous repairs had put us up on scaffolding and close to the roof, so we knew roughly what condition it was in and what direction things were heading. When we came back to look at the full job, we could show the customer close-up photos of the affected areas alongside what we already knew — they understood the situation straight away.

What we did

  • Re-roofed the main house and the rear extension.
  • New breathable membrane and battens throughout — the battens come off and go back new every time, not only when they look tired.
  • Fitted a dry ridge system to the new tiles.
  • Repointed and reflaunched the chimney, with new leadwork to the abutment.
  • Refelted the bay window roof in a single-layer Rinova system.
  • New soffits and fascias.

Keeping the look, without the cost of a like-for-like match

The original tiles were plain concrete — replacing them exactly like for like would have meant a far more labour-intensive job, and a more expensive one. Instead we used Marley Ashmore tiles: an interlocking concrete tile with a profile close enough to a plain tile that the roof stayed in keeping with the house, at a fraction of the labour cost of a true like-for-like replacement. It's the kind of call that keeps a roof looking right for the street it's on, without loading the customer with cost that doesn't buy them anything they'd notice.

How it turned out

The roof took twelve days from start to finish, and it turned out superbly — tiles, ridge, chimney and leadwork all going back together the way they were meant to. The main roof areas carry a 20-year workmanship guarantee, high specification materials throughout, and it's a job we'd point to for exactly that reason: it's since become a repeat relationship, with smaller works on outbuildings since and the same customer calling us back.

If your roof is at the point where repairs keep coming back, get in touch — or read more about how we approach pitched re-roofs.

What we used

  • Marley Ashmore interlocking concrete tiles
  • Breathable membrane on new treated battens
  • Dry ridge system
  • Rinova single-layer bitumen system (bay window roof)
  • New leadwork to the chimney abutment

The work on this job

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