Roofers in East Ham

East Ham grew quickly around the turn of the twentieth century, and many of its streets were laid out in a few years with long, near-identical terraces of bay-fronted houses. Ashlar Roofing works as a roofer across E6 and the London Borough of Newham, and that uniformity is useful: once we know how one house on a street was built, we know a good deal about its neighbours.

The roofs on these houses were designed around slate, lead valleys and shared chimney stacks. Where they have been relaid with concrete tiles, the extra weight can show as a slight dip along the ridge or a bulge in a slope. Where the original slates remain, the usual weakness is the nails holding them, which corrode until slates start slipping one after another. Both are things we look for on a survey.

Shared features are part of terraced life. A party wall chimney, a valley between two rear outriggers or a run of gutter across the front of several houses can all affect the house next door. If a repair is likely to involve a shared feature, we tell you beforehand so you can speak to your neighbour.