Roofers in Navenby

Roofing in Navenby, Lincolnshire

Roofers in Navenby, covering LN1 to LN10 from our Lincoln office about 9 miles south of Lincoln. Pitched roofs, flat roofs, repairs, re-roofing and roofline, carried out by our own directly employed roofers with a 10 year workmanship guarantee in writing.

Navenby is one of the Cliff villages strung along the limestone edge south of Lincoln, high and open with older stone and brick property in the centre.

The villages along the limestone edge are more exposed than their distance from town suggests. Properties here take the weather from the west with little shelter, so specification matters: fixings suited to the wind loading, underlay lapped properly, and ridge and verge fixed mechanically. Newer housing on the edge of the village has the usual concrete tile and spent fixings.

Navenby's roof edges around Clint Lane and High Dyke

Church Lane and Clint Lane place older Navenby houses beside stone walls, gardens and the grounds around St Peter's Church. Towards High Dyke and Green Man Road, later residential development gives a different mixture of detached houses, bungalows and extensions. Clint Lane includes irregular plots and changes in level, while High Dyke has a more open relationship with surrounding fields. Between Church Lane and Green Man Road, rear access and the number of additions beneath each roof can vary within a short walk.

Local limestone walls and clay pantile roofs are prominent in Navenby's older streets, including the Church Lane setting, with slate and later replacement materials adding variation. On a Clint Lane cottage, the junction between a pantiled slope and a stone gable can show weathered mortar before the middle of the covering changes. A later High Dyke house may instead need attention at concrete tile fixings or the underlay emerging at its eaves. Where a Green Man Road property has an attached flat extension, the upstand against the house forms a distinct weathering detail.

Views from the western end of Navenby across lower countryside explain why a Church Lane roof may be exposed above apparently sheltered garden walls. Above Clint Lane's enclosed paths, ridges can encounter wind crossing the lower countryside to the west. Trees around St Peter's add shade and seasonal debris to nearby roof drainage, making leaf accumulation another consideration on those older plots. At High Dyke, open land beyond the residential edge gives gables a different approach to the weather, so verge fixings and the exposed side of a chimney merit comparison with the sheltered return.

What we get called out to in Navenby

• Wind damage to ridge linesExposure on the escarpment working ridge tiles loose year on year.
• Storm reinstatementPutting a roof back properly after wind damage, rather than replacing what blew off and leaving the rest.
• Clay pantile repairsSound old pantile with bedding and leadwork long past their best.
• Verge and gable repairsMortar gone along the gable edge where the westerly weather hits first.

What we do most of in Navenby

Re-roofing in Navenby

Full strip and re-cover in Navenby with a structural check once the roof is open, new breathable membrane, treated battens and mechanically fixed ridge and verge.

Garage roofs in Navenby

Garage and outbuilding roofs in Navenby re-covered in EPDM, GRP or felt, with the deck replaced and the falls corrected where they need it.

Valley replacements in Navenby

Lead, GRP and metal valleys in Navenby re-lined where the channel has perished, including the cement filled valleys left behind by somebody else's repair.

Flat roofing in Navenby

EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass and torch on felt flat roofs across Navenby, laid warm where the build up allows, with the deck checked before anything goes over it.

Navenby at a glance

Every roofing service we offer in Navenby

These are the services we run in Navenby. If you are not sure which one you need, ring the Lincoln office and describe it, and we will tell you.

• Pitched roofing
• Flat roofing
• Roof repairs
• Re-roofing
• Fascias, soffits and guttering
• Chimney and leadwork
• Storm damage
• Slate roofing
• Garage roofs
• Dry ridge and dry verge
• Valley replacements

RoofRite access through Navenby's lanes and newer plots

Church Lane access can involve gradients, boundary walls and limited space beside older buildings, all of which affect scaffold positions. We check the route behind a Clint Lane cottage before assuming that a vehicle can reach the garden. A detached High Dyke plot may provide an easier unloading point but still need scaffold around a lower garage roof. On protected Church Lane property, the relationship between pantiles and stonework guides assessment of visible changes and any required permissions.

The Lincoln office covers Navenby, with a free survey that can relate a Church Lane chimney defect to the roof and masonry around it. Photographs of what we find accompany the discussion of an itemised written quote, helping distinguish Chimney and leadwork from Roof repairs along a Clint Lane gable. For a Green Man Road extension, Flat roofing may be more relevant than work to the main tiled slope. A High Dyke roof with deteriorated edge bedding can also be assessed for compatible Dry ridge and dry verge details.

Getting to Navenby

The Lincoln office covers Navenby as part of its normal patch, about 9 miles away in Lincoln. It falls inside the LN1 to LN10 area we work in. Ring that number and you will get the team that actually works your area.

There is no charge for us coming out to Navenby to look at a roof, and no obligation once we have. If the answer is that the roof needs nothing doing, that is what we will tell you.

Nearby villages and towns we also cover: Bassingham, Aubourn, Waddington, South Hykeham, Blankney, North Hykeham.