Roofers covering Glasgow
We are Glasgow-based roofers in the working sense: the city is a daily run for us, from the southside suburbs to the West End.
What Glasgow is built of
Glasgow's Victorian building boom left the city with one of the finest sets of traditional roofs in Britain: blonde and red sandstone tenements street after street, bay-windowed terraces, and villas across the southside and West End. Almost all of it was roofed in slate on sarking boards, with big communal stacks and long shared gutters.
A tenement roof is a shared responsibility, usually managed between owners or through a factor. Knowing how to survey one honestly, price it clearly and repair it without disturbing what is sound is a craft of its own, and it is bread-and-butter work for us.
What the weather does to Glasgow roofs
Glasgow roofs are over a century into their working lives. The slate often has decades left, but nails, flashings, ridges and chimney pointing frequently do not. Wind funnelling between tenement blocks strips slates in every winter storm, and blocked communal gutters show up as damp in top-floor flats.
Typical jobs in Glasgow
- Tenement slate repairs and surveys
- Communal gutters and downpipes
- Chimney stacks over shared closes
- Storm-slipped slates every winter
- Villa and terrace re-slating
- Lead valleys and flashings at end of life
Glasgow questions
Do you work with factors and shared owners?
Yes. We provide clear written quotes and photographs so costs can be shared and decisions made quickly.
Can you match Glasgow's traditional slate?
Usually yes, from reclaimed and matching stock, so repairs sit right against the original roof.
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