Roofers in Cromer, Norfolk

Your local roofer in Cromer

Roofing in Cromer is a fight with the North Sea

Cromer roofs take more weather than almost anywhere else we work. The town sits on a cliff facing due north with nothing between it and the sea, so a winter gale drives rain uphill under the tiles and salt spray eats into ferrous nails, lead clips and cheap gutter brackets. The Victorian and Edwardian villas around the pier and along the Runton Road are tall, steep and exposed, and a slipped pantile or a cracked ridge on one of them becomes a leak into a top-floor bedroom within a week.

The housing mix is wider than the seafront suggests. Behind the promenade you have flint and brick cottages with steep clay pantile roofs, then 1930s semis and post-war bungalows spreading out towards Roughton and Overstrand, plus a lot of rear extensions and porches finished in felt that the coastal sun has cooked brittle. Each one fails in its own way, and each one gets fixed with the right material rather than whatever is on the van.

We come up from Norwich on the A140, about 24 miles and 45 minutes, and we are in the town most weeks. You get a straight answer on whether the roof needs a repair or a re-roof, a fixed price in writing before anything starts, and a job that is still tight when the next northerly blows in.

Roof repairs, re-roofs and roofline in Cromer

The most common call from Cromer is a leak after a storm. Our roof repairs in Cromer cover slipped and cracked pantiles, blown ridge and verge mortar, failed lead flashing round chimneys and dormers, and split felt on flat roofs. We make the roof watertight on the first visit, then price the permanent fix. If the tiles are past saving, a new roof in Cromer in clay pantile or slate, on new battens and breathable membrane, is priced in writing with no pressure.

Seafront roofline suffers too. Timber fascias rot fast in salt air, so we replace them with uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering that never need painting. For extensions and dormers we fit GRP fibreglass and EPDM rubber flat roofs that shrug off UV and standing water, and we clear and treat moss on north-facing slopes with roof cleaning that does not smash the tiles.