Roofers in Alderley Edge

Alderley Edge runs from the period villas and detached houses around the village centre, London Road and Macclesfield Road out to the larger modern homes set back in their own grounds, with the sandstone ridge — the Edge — rising behind. It's a mix that catches out roofers who only know one kind of roof: original natural-slate pitches a century old sitting a few streets from large, complicated modern roofs with multiple hips, valleys and dormers that all have to meet cleanly. Both punish a careless job. A heritage slate roof done in the wrong material or a modern roof with the lead dressed instead of welded won't leak on handover day — it leaks four or five winters on, by which point the cheap roofer is long gone. We work the way these roofs were built: natural and reclaimed slate matched to the house, valleys and chimney details welded by hand, a mechanical dry ridge instead of mortar. Every Alderley Edge roof gets a drone survey before we quote, so you see the slipped slates and cracked lead on a screen first, and a full before/after photo set when we're done. On a house this size you can't see the roof from the ground, and you shouldn't have to take our word for it.

Roofing for Alderley Edge homes, not the average semi

Alderley Edge is not one kind of roof. There are the period villas and detached houses around the village centre, London Road and Macclesfield Road — steep slate pitches, deep valleys, lead at every chimney, much of it a century old. Then there are the larger modern houses set back in their own grounds, with complicated roofs: multiple ridges, hips, dormers and valleys that all have to line up and shed water cleanly.

Both are the kind of roof where a shortcut shows for thirty years. A valley cut wrong, lead dressed instead of welded, slate relaid over tired felt — none of it leaks on handover day. It leaks four or five winters later, long after the cheap roofer has banked the cheque. That’s the work we’re called in to do properly.

Drone survey first, so the price is the price

You can’t price an Alderley Edge roof from the pavement. The houses are tall, the roofs are complex, and the slate that needs replacing is the slate you can’t see from the ground.

So we don’t guess. Every roof we quote here starts with a drone survey. You see the slipped slates, the open valleys, the cracked verge mortar and the failing lead on a screen, before we put a number on anything. No “we’ll know more once we’re up there” halfway through the job — the price we give is based on the roof we both just looked at.

The right materials, detailed by hand

On a heritage roof there is a right material and a wrong one, and we work the right way:

• Reclaim and re-sort the sound slate off your own roof first.
• Match the shortfall in natural Welsh or Spanish slate, by size and shade.
• Hand-cut the verges, valleys and awkward junctions rather than forcing a kit.
• Weld the lead — valleys, soakers and chimney flashings formed on site by our certified lead welder (Master Roofers Academy), not patched with self-adhesive tape.
• Set a mechanical dry ridge instead of mortar that blows out in a few winters.

On the modern roofs it’s the same discipline applied to the hips, dormers and abutments — the junctions are where these roofs live or die, so it’s where we spend the time. We’ve completed full natural-slate re-roofs and complex modern roofs across Cheshire and South Manchester, and the before/after set leaves with every one.

We’re not the cheapest in Alderley Edge

We’ll say it plainly: there will be a cheaper quote. There usually is. It will mean concrete instead of slate, tape instead of welded lead, no drone survey and no photos — and on a house this size and this value, that’s a roof you’ll be paying for twice.

The homeowners who call us in Alderley Edge already know that. We’re a third-generation Cheshire firm, our own fully insured in-house team — no day-rate subcontractors on your scaffold — and we’re the most-reviewed roofer in Middlewich, every review five stars.

Book an Alderley Edge roof survey

Call 01606 537305 — the line is answered 24/7 — or email middlewichroofing@gmail.com. Tell us the address and what you’re seeing. We’ll book a drone survey, show you the roof on screen, and quote it properly. If it’s leaking now, we run same-day emergency repairs across Cheshire and South Manchester.