Trusted Roofers in Werrington

Werrington sits on the northern edge of Peterborough, which makes it one of the closest places to our Peterborough team, close enough that a survey rarely needs more than a short drive across the city.

The old village around the church still has its older brick cottages, but most of Werrington's homes date from the big 1970s and 1980s expansion to the north, with concrete interlocking tiles and timber rooflines that are now well into middle age.

Werrington is inside the city, so there is no travel to build into the price and no waiting for a crew to come in from elsewhere. You get a free survey with photographs, a fixed written quote from owner Charles Stevens within 48 hours that stays valid for 30 days, and a written guarantee on the work: 20 years on roofing, 5 years on driveways and patios.

What Werrington roofs need after forty to fifty years

Most of Werrington was built in one burst between the early 1970s and the late 1980s as Peterborough pushed north, so a large share of the roofs here are the same age and were put on with the same materials: concrete interlocking tiles on a moderate pitch, bitumen felt underlay, softwood fascias and a mortar-bedded ridge. Forty to fifty years on, those roofs fail in predictable ways. The felt goes brittle and tears along the eaves, ridge mortar cracks and lets the wind get under the top course, and painted timber fascias rot quietly behind the gutters where nobody looks.

None of that automatically means a new roof. The tiles themselves are often perfectly sound, and a proper repair to the eaves felt, a re-bedded or mechanically fixed ridge and a uPVC roofline can add years of service for a fraction of the cost. Our survey tells you which side of that line your roof sits on, with photographs of what we found, and the fixed written roof repair quote that follows is for the work you actually need. Where the underlay has gone across the whole roof we will say so plainly and price a full re-roof, which is then signed off by an independent building inspector on completion.

The older part of Werrington around the church is a different kind of job. Clay tiles, slate and original chimneys need matching materials and proper leadwork, not a modern tile pushed into the gap, and we quote them that way from the start.

Flat-roofed garages are everywhere on the estates, and original felt from that era is well past its life. We strip it and replace it with EPDM rubber or GRP fibreglass under our flat roofing service, covered by the same 20-year written guarantee as the pitched work.

Roofing in Werrington, your questions answered