Roofers in Streatham

It points to the valley gutter rather than the slate. The staining needs leaf fall and rain at once, which is why it starts in October and stops by spring: the outlet blocks, the gutter fills, and the water crosses the lead. Have the valley cleared and the lead laps and boarding checked. If it wets in winter rain with the trees bare, suspect nail sickness in the slating instead.

Usually not. On a Vale semi the clay or concrete tiles often have decades left in them. What has gone is the felt beneath, if the roof was felted at all, and the battens the nails are holding. The tell is tiles slipping in no pattern and black grit on the loft floor. Stripping and re-laying, with new membrane, treated battens and the sound tiles put back, costs less than new tiles and lasts as long.

The roof and structure belong to the freeholder, so it goes through the managing agent and comes back as service charge rather than a bill to you alone. On these blocks the work is usually asphalt or felt over a flat deck, drained through parapet outlets. Where one leaseholder's share passes £250, the block has to run a section 20 consultation first, which takes months. A written survey gives the agent something to start with.

On the High Road you are on the TfL road network, so a red route sits outside your door: anything standing on the carriageway or footway is agreed with TfL as well as Lambeth, and a bay suspension has to be booked ahead. Turn into the side streets and it is Lambeth alone, a footway licence for the scaffold or skip. Scaffold wholly on your own ground needs neither.

Yes. Streatham is about 3.7 miles from our yard in Camberwell, and SW16 is inside the area we quote in.

For an active leak we aim for the same day — the call-out line runs 24 hours. For a survey we are usually with you within a few days.

No. The survey and the written quote are free, and there is no call-out fee for pricing a job anywhere in Streatham.

Every review on Checkatrade carries the postcode district of the job, so you can see the areas we work in and read what those customers said. Ask when you ring and we will send photographs of a roof like yours.