Roofers in Thetford, Norfolk

Your local roofer in Thetford

Roofing in Thetford spans a historic centre and a whole new town

Thetford has two roofing stories running side by side. The old town, close to the river and the flint town-centre streets, has narrow-pitched pantile roofs on brick and flint buildings that have stood for well over a century, with lead valleys and chimney flashing that need periodic attention rather than replacement. Thetford Forest presses right up against the edges of town, so pine needles and cones find their way into gutters and valleys here just as they do further west towards Swaffham.

The rest of Thetford grew fast when the town took on new housing from the 1960s onward, and those estates now carry roofs of a similar age: original felt underlay that has done its job for decades and is due replacement, ridge tiles bedded once and never touched since, and gutters sized for smaller trees than the mature ones now overhanging them.

We come down from Norwich on the A11, about 29 miles, and Thetford is a regular job for us. You get an honest look at whether the roof needs a repair or a re-roof, a written price before we start, and work suited to whichever part of town you are in.

Roof repairs, re-roofs and roofline in Thetford

Calls from the old town tend to be flashing and pantile repairs on older flint buildings, while calls from the estates are more often perished felt or gutters packed with forest debris. Our roof repairs in Thetford cover both, and where a roof's underlay has genuinely reached the end of its life we quote a new roof in Thetford in writing before any work starts.

We fit uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering with covers to keep forest debris from packing the gutters again, and flat-roofed extensions on the newer estates get GRP fibreglass and EPDM rubber flat roofing in place of felt that has already had its life. Moss on shaded, tree-lined roofs is cleared with careful roof cleaning.