Roofer in Wembdon & Durleigh
From Victorian villas and dockworkers’ terraces to 1930s houses and later estates. Roof repairs and re-roofs matched to what each house was built with.
What these roofs actually are
The Victoria County History describes Wembdon as a ridge-top village that grew into a Bridgwater suburb: detached houses from the 1840s, terraces and villas for dockworkers at Newtown in the 1880s, then semis and estates through the 20th century from the 1920s to the 1980s. Durleigh, best known for the reservoir dammed in 1938, has Bridgwater houses along Enmore Road, built from the later 19th century and increasingly from the 1930s.
That spread of ages means a spread of roofs: Victorian clay and slate, interwar tiles, and later concrete interlocking tiles that were often never mechanically fixed.
What we get called to
Clay and slate repairs
On the older houses, matching double Roman clay or natural slate so repairs lap and look right.
Concrete tile roofs
Interwar and later roofs where tiles were laid without mechanical fixing. Re-fixed or re-covered to BS 5534.
Chimneys
Flashings, back gutters and pots on Victorian and 1930s stacks.
Flat roofs and garages
Extensions, garages and porches re-covered in EPDM.
A ridge on open land
Wembdon sits on a ridge west of the town. The Met Office records a predominantly south-westerly wind in the region, with the strongest winds coming from between south and north-west, and a ridge on open land takes more of it than the valley floor. Verges, ridges and loose tiles are where storm damage starts.
Roofing problem in Wembdon or Durleigh?
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