Roofing in Kempston

Next door to us

Kempston runs straight into Bedford, so we are rarely more than a few minutes away. We have worked in Kempston and the MK42 and MK43 roads around it, and plenty of our customers here found us because a neighbour had us round first.

Kempston roofs

Kempston sits on the edge of the Marston Vale, the old brickmaking country, and its roofs vary more than people expect:

• older terraces near the river and the High Street, often in slate, where nail fatigue lets slates slip one at a time
• postwar semis and bungalows in concrete tile, many now at the age where the felt under the tiles is failing
• newer estates where the trouble is usually at the edges: mortar falling out of the verges, loose ridge tiles, gutters that overflow

Fixing what is actually wrong

A damp patch on a bedroom ceiling does not always mean a new roof. Very often the felt has rotted at the bottom of the roof where it meets the gutter, and opening up about a metre, renewing the felt and fitting an eaves support tray sorts it for good. Where ridge or verge mortar keeps cracking, we fit a dry ridge or dry verge system, which is screwed and clipped in place so there is no mortar left to fall out.

If the roof really is finished, we will show you photos of why, and the quote will list every part of the job so you can compare it fairly with anyone else's.