Tile & slate repairs, matched and made to last

A few bad tiles don’t mean a bad roof

You’ve spotted a slate on the lawn, or a gap in the line, or a tile sat crooked after the last bit of wind. Maybe a damp patch on the bedroom ceiling that lines up with it. You don’t want a new roof. You want the few bad pieces put right, properly, so it doesn’t come back.

That’s this job.

We repair slipped, cracked and missing slates and tiles across Cheshire and South Manchester — Middlewich, Northwich, Knutsford, Winsford and out toward Altrincham and Bowdon. Small-area work, done to the same standard as a full roof. Matched materials, the cause fixed, and photographs of the lot before we leave.

We survey before we quote

Before anyone climbs on your roof, we put a drone up.

A few minutes in the air tells us whether you’ve got three slipped slates or a felt-and-batten problem hiding underneath them. We’d rather know that before we quote than find it halfway through and hand you a surprise.

If it’s a genuine small-area fix, we say so and price the repair. If the survey shows worse — perished felt, rusted nails across a whole slope, bedding gone everywhere — we show you the drone photos and explain what we’re looking at. You see what we see. You decide with the facts in front of you.

Matching matters, so we get it right

A repair that stands out is a repair done badly.

• Slate — Welsh, Spanish, reclaimed. We match by size, thickness, colour and weathering. On older roofs we’ll lift and reuse sound salvaged slates from the same roof so the patch disappears into the rest.
• Clay tiles — handmade and machine-made, plain and pantile. We source the closest available and, where we can, reclaimed stock that’s already aged.
• Concrete interlocking — the common ones we usually match same-day; discontinued profiles we track down before we book the work in.

We tell you how close the match will be before we start. No surprises when the scaffold comes down.

We fix the cause, not just the symptom

Tiles don’t slip for no reason. There are usually three culprits, and we deal with the one that’s actually yours:

• Nail sickness — old iron nails rust through and the slate drops. If the nails on one slope have gone, the rest are on their way. We re-fix on the right fixings, not the failing ones.
• Failed bedding — cracked, blown mortar at ridge, hip or verge lets tiles work loose. We re-bed properly, or move you to a dry-fix system that doesn’t crack again.
• Storm lift — tiles that were never clipped lift in high wind. We re-fix and clip so the next gale doesn’t undo the work.

Re-seating one slipped slate next to ten more about to go is a wasted trip and a second call-out. We don’t do that.

We’re not the cheapest

We’re not, and the homeowners who call us aren’t looking for the cheapest. A £40 patch that slips again by winter isn’t cheap — it’s two jobs.

What you get instead: a drone survey before the quote, matched materials, the cause fixed, an in-house fully insured team on your roof, and before-and-after photos in your inbox. Every repair backed by a written workmanship guarantee.

We’re the most-reviewed roofer in Middlewich, and every one of those 99 Google reviews is five stars. Three generations of Cheshire roofers stand behind that.

When a repair becomes something more

Sometimes the drone shows the honest answer is bigger than a patch. We’ll tell you straight — and we’d rather tell you now than take your repair money and watch it fail.

If it turns out you need a slope re-covered, the ridge dry-fixed, or storm damage made safe first, we handle all of it in-house. You’re not handed off.

Next step

Pulled a slate off the lawn? Spotted a gap in the line? Tell us what you’re seeing and we’ll book the drone survey.

Call 01606 537305 — the line’s answered 24/7 — or email middlewichroofing@gmail.com. We’ll look at the roof first, then quote the repair you actually need.