Roofers in North Walsham, Norfolk

Your local roofer in North Walsham

Roofing in North Walsham covers an old market town and its newer edges

North Walsham has been a market town for centuries, built on the wool and worsted cloth trade with neighbouring Worstead, and the streets around the market cross still have older brick and pantile buildings with roofs that have been patched and repaired many times over. Getting a repair to sit properly on one of these older roofs takes more care than a straightforward modern tile job.

Further out, the town has plenty of post-war and modern housing spreading towards the Bure Valley and the villages nearby, with standard concrete-tile roofs that suffer the more usual problems of slipped tiles, cracked ridge mortar and worn guttering. Being close to the Broads and the coast, the town still gets more than its share of wind and driving rain compared with somewhere further inland.

We come up from Norwich on the A140, roughly 15 miles, and we are in North Walsham regularly for both the older town-centre buildings and the newer estates. You get an honest assessment of what the roof needs, a price fixed in writing before work starts, and a job finished properly whichever part of town you are in.

Roof repairs, re-roofs and roofline in North Walsham

In the older part of town, calls are usually about a slipped pantile, cracked ridge mortar or a chimney that has started to let water in. Our roof repairs in North Walsham cover all of these, matching materials on older buildings rather than fitting whatever is easiest. Where a roof has reached the end of its life, a new roof in North Walsham in tile or pantile is priced in writing before anything is agreed.

On newer housing we regularly fit uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering to replace worn builder-grade plastic, and GRP fibreglass and EPDM rubber flat roofs on extensions and garages. On the older market-town buildings we also carry out chimney repairs and repointing using matching brick and mortar.