Roof Repairs in Alderley Edge

A repair starts with finding the real cause

A leak almost never enters where it appears. Water runs along a batten or down a rafter and surfaces a metre from where it got in, which is exactly why so many repairs in Alderley Edge fail twice before anyone calls us. Someone seals the stain on the ceiling, the next downpour comes, and the drip is back in the same spot.

We work the other way round. Every repair starts with a drone survey, getting in close to the ridge, the valleys and the flashings to find where the roof is actually open. On a tall period villa near the village or a large modern roof off Macclesfield Road, you can’t see any of that from the ground. We’d rather spend an hour tracing a leak to its source than ten minutes covering up the symptom — because on a house this size a repair that lasts is far cheaper than one you pay for again next winter.

The repairs Alderley Edge roofs need most

These houses have their own habits, and the roofs split into two kinds — heritage and large modern — each with its own failure points:

• Slipped and cracked slates. Common on the older slate roofs around the village centre and London Road, where one nail-sick slate lets the next one go in every gale. We replace properly and check the slates either side.
• Failed lead. The period villas rely on lead at the chimneys and in the valleys, and a century of heat-and-cool cycling cracks and lifts it. Our certified lead welder (Master Roofers Academy) re-forms and welds it to last, rather than patching with flashing tape.
• Valley, hip and abutment leaks. The stubborn ones — water tracking behind a chimney, down a valley, or through a junction on a complex modern roof and surfacing well away from the entry point. This is where leak tracing earns its keep.
• Storm damage. Slates or tiles lifted off, a ridge dislodged, debris through the covering after a blow coming over the Edge. We make it safe and weatherproof first, then come back for the proper fix.

24/7, same-day, answered by a real person

When a roof opens up mid-storm, you don’t want a voicemail. Our phone line runs round the clock and a person picks it up. Because Alderley Edge sits well inside our patch, a live leak usually has us on the roof the same day — sheeted, made safe and watertight before anything else, so the inside of your house stops taking water and the plaster, floors and fittings underneath are protected.

Once it’s secure and the weather’s right, we carry out the permanent repair and photograph it before and after, so you see exactly what was wrong and what we did about it.

Fixed properly, and it stays fixed

We’re a third-generation Cheshire firm, in-house and fully insured, and every repair carries our workmanship guarantee — if it doesn’t hold, our own team comes back to it. No day-rate subcontractors on your roof. We’re the most-reviewed roofer in Middlewich, every review five stars, much of it from leaks other firms couldn’t solve.

If you’ve got water coming in right now, don’t wait for it to spread. Call 01606 537305 — the line’s answered 24/7 and we run same-day emergency repairs across Cheshire and South Manchester.