Roofers in Wroxham, Norfolk

Your local roofer in Wroxham

Roofing in Wroxham has to live with the river all year

Wroxham sits either side of the River Bure and calls itself the capital of the Broads, and that river shapes almost every roof we look at here. Boatyards, riverside cottages and holiday chalets sit close to the water under mature trees, and the combination of humid air off the Bure and constant shade means moss and algae build up on pantiles far faster than on a drier, more open site.

Housing away from the water is more ordinary: brick and flint cottages in the older part of the village, with concrete tile bungalows and estates spreading out towards Hoveton on the other side of the river. Timber roofline on the riverside buildings takes the worst of it, softening and rotting years before the equivalent on a house set back from the water.

We come up from Norwich on the A1151, about 8 miles, and Wroxham is one of the easier Broads towns for us to reach. You get an honest opinion on repair against re-roof, a written price before anything starts, and roofing built to cope with damp river air rather than fight it for one season.

Roof repairs, re-roofs and roofline in Wroxham

The jobs we see most in Wroxham are moss-covered pantiles under riverside trees and rotten roofline on boatyard buildings. Our roof repairs in Wroxham cover re-bedded ridges, replaced pantiles and cleared valley gutters, and where damp has taken hold across a whole roof we quote a new roof in Wroxham with a proper breathable membrane behind it.

We replace soft, rotten timber roofline with uPVC fascias, soffits and guttering that will not take on moisture again, and boat sheds and outbuildings get GRP fibreglass and EPDM rubber flat roofing instead of felt that blisters in the damp. Moss and algae on shaded riverside roofs are cleared with careful roof cleaning.