Trusted Roofers in Coates

Coates sits just east of Whittlesey on the A605, joined to Eastrea, and is a short run for our Peterborough team along the same road our crews already use for Whittlesey.

Most of the village is 20th-century brick housing and bungalows strung along the main road, built in the Fletton brick that Whittlesey's brickworks made famous, topped with concrete interlocking tiles and, on the older cottages, clay pantiles.

Coates and Eastrea are a short drive from our Peterborough team along the A605, the same road that takes us to Whittlesey, so there is no waiting for a crew from further afield. Owner Charles Stevens surveys free of charge, sends a fixed written quote within 48 hours that stays valid for 30 days, and the work carries a written guarantee: 20 years on roofing, 5 years on driveways and patios.

Roofing in Coates and Eastrea: brick country roofs

Coates runs into Eastrea along the A605 just east of Whittlesey, and the two villages share their building history with the town. This is the heart of the brickfields that produced the Fletton brick used in houses across much of England, and it shows in the village: warm red and buff brick throughout, with clay pantiles on the older cottages and farmhouses and concrete interlocking tiles on the 20th-century homes and bungalows that make up most of the village today.

Clay pantiles are a lovely covering but they are hung loosely by design, and after a few decades of Fen wind they slip, crack at the nibs and let water in at the laps. Often the tiles can be saved: we re-fix the slipped ones, replace the broken ones with a matching pantile and check the battens underneath. If the battens have gone soft or the felt beneath has perished across the roof, patching stops being worth the money, and we will tell you that rather than keep taking small repair jobs off the same roof. Either way the repair or re-roof is quoted in writing before anyone goes up a ladder.

The bungalows along the main road have the same low-pitch issues found across the Fens: concrete tiles laid near their minimum pitch, relying on the underlay to cope with driving rain. Once that felt goes brittle the roof leaks from the windward side, and the honest fix is a strip and re-cover with breathable membrane and new battens, signed off by an independent building inspector as every full replacement is.

Chimney stacks on the older brick properties are worth a look at the same time, because a stack that has been repointed in a hard modern mortar can spall the brick face and let water into the loft. We repoint, re-flash and cap them properly under our chimney repairs service, and replace tired timber rooflines with uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering so the whole roof edge is dealt with in one visit.

Roofing in Coates, your questions answered