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New roof in Norwich, re-roofing and roof replacement
A new roof in Norwich from Premier means the old covering stripped, every timber checked, and new membrane, battens and Norfolk pantile, tile or slate built to last 50 years. Book a free survey and get a fixed written price for your roof replacement, backed by a 10-year workmanship guarantee. Call 01603 361606, seven days a week.
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A new roof in Norwich, built to see out the next 50 years
A re-roof is the one roofing job you only want to pay for once. What decides whether it lasts fifty years or fifteen is the membrane, the battens and the timber under the tiles: the cheapest materials on the job and the most expensive to get wrong.
Connor Crosby and his family-run team re-roof houses, bungalows and cottages across Norwich and 40 miles of Norfolk. You get a free survey, a fixed written price with scaffold and waste included, and a 10-year workmanship guarantee in writing. The price you are quoted is the price you pay.
What is included in every new roof
- Full strip of the old tiles, felt and battens, all taken away
- Every rafter checked, and any rotten timber shown to you before it is replaced
- New breathable membrane and treated battens set to your tile gauge
- Norfolk pantile, clay or concrete tile, or natural slate to suit your house
- Dry ridge and dry verge, plus new lead at the chimney, valleys and walls
- Scaffold, skips and a tidy site every day, all in the written price
Worth a look
Signs you need a new roof, not another repair
One fault in one place is a repair. These signs mean the whole roof is at the end of its life, and every pound spent patching it is spent twice.
- You are paying for repairs on the same roof winter after winter
- Tiles are cracked, flaking or spalling on every slope, not just one
- The felt in the loft is brittle, torn or hanging in ribbons
- Every gale leaves slipped tiles on the path and a new wet patch in the loft
- The roof sags or dips between the rafters
- Damp keeps coming back however many times it is patched
Repair or replace: the honest answer
A slipped tile, a cracked ridge or a failed piece of lead in one place is a repair. If a repair will do the job, that is what we quote, and you will not be sold a new roof you do not need: see roof repairs in Norwich.
The answer changes when the fault is everywhere. Then each repair buys one more winter while water soaks into the rafters, and rotten timber is what adds to a re-roof bill. A new roof becomes the cheaper option over time, and if only one slope has gone, we price re-roofing just that side. We show you the evidence from the loft and the roof first.
Norfolk pantile, tile and slate: the roofs we replace around Norwich
A house re-roofed in the wrong covering stands out on the street for the next fifty years, so every survey starts with what belongs on your house and what your neighbours have.
Norfolk pantile
Red clay pantiles are what most of Norfolk was roofed in, and they are still right for most cottages and older houses around Norwich. A pantile sheds a lot of water for its size and copes well with the wind off the coast. On listed homes we reinstate the original glazed Norfolk tiles, swapping damaged ones like for like.
Clay and concrete tiles
Concrete tile covers most of the 1930s semis and the post-war estates in Lakenham, Mile Cross and Heartsease, and the interwar houses in Eaton and Thorpe Hamlet take concrete or clay. Decades on, it shows in worn ridge mortar, brittle felt and cracked tiles. Concrete costs £110 to £150 per square metre fitted and clay £130 to £180, and clay lasts longer.
Natural slate
Slate belongs on the Victorian terraces of the Golden Triangle and the villas off Unthank Road, with their steep pitches, tight valleys and abutments. Natural slate costs £150 to £220 per square metre fitted and lasts 80 years and more.
Better loft ventilation while the roof is open
Breathable membrane lets moisture out and keeps rain out, so a re-roof is the best time to cure a cold, damp loft. We fit roof ventilation at the eaves and ridge, and any spray foam under your old tiles comes off with the strip (see spray foam removal).
Step by step
What a re-roof involves, from scaffold to handover
Eight stages, and you know what is happening at each one.
Scaffold up
Scaffold round the house so every slope is worked safely. It is in your price, not an extra.
Strip the old roof
Old tiles, felt and battens off and away. On listed homes, sound tiles are set aside to go back on.
Inspect the timbers
Every rafter is checked. Rotten timber is shown to you and agreed before it is cut out and replaced.
Membrane and battens
New breathable membrane over the whole roof, then treated battens set to the gauge of your tile or slate.
Tiles or slates
Your new covering goes on from the eaves up, matched to your house and your street.
Ridge and verge
Dry-fixed, screwed and clipped with no mortar to crack, or bedded and pointed where a traditional finish suits.
Leadwork
New lead soakers and step flashing at the chimney, lead-lined valleys and new abutment flashings: where old roofs leak first.
Gutters and handover
Tired fascias, soffits or guttering are renewed while the scaffold is up. Every scrap of old roof goes, and your guarantee is handed over in writing.
How long a new roof takes
Most houses take three days to two weeks: a terraced house in concrete tile at the short end, a large detached house in slate at the long end. You get the start date and timescale in writing.
Roof replacement cost in Norwich
A new roof in Norwich costs £4,650 to £21,100 in 2026. That covers stripping the old roof, new membrane and battens, the new covering, scaffold and waste. For a 3 bed house:
- Terraced house: £4,650 to £7,700 in concrete tiles, £7,000 to £10,050 in natural slate
- Semi-detached: £5,700 to £10,750 in concrete tiles, £7,950 to £13,000 in clay tiles
- Detached house: £8,350 to £15,400 in concrete tiles, £14,000 to £21,100 in natural slate
- Bungalow: £8,850 to £14,500 in concrete tiles, £13,350 to £18,950 in natural slate
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Re-roofs we have finished across Norfolk
Clay pantile roof replacement in Holt
A hipped roof stripped and re-covered in new terracotta clay pantiles, with a dry-fixed ridge and verge, a lead-lined valley and new lead soakers and step flashing to the chimney.
Slate roof replacement with new rafters
Years of water had softened the timbers. Rotten rafters replaced, then new underfelt, battens set to the slate gauge, natural slate and a bedded and pointed ridge.
A run of new pantile roofs
Red pantiles on membrane and new battens set to the tile gauge, ridges bedded and chimney leadwork dressed in.
"Ours is a 200 year old listed property. The team sympathetically removed the tiles and set them aside, replaced the old felt with a new breathable membrane, and reinstated the glazed Norfolk roof tiles, swapping any damaged ones like for like. They cut in new lead flashing and ridge caps, then repaired and redecorated both chimney stacks. Polite, tidy and skilled. Done on time and to the agreed fixed price."
Guaranteed for 10 years, rated 4.94 out of 5
Every new roof carries our 10-year workmanship guarantee in writing: if something we have done is not right, we come back and put it right. We are fully insured, TrustATrader approved since 2019 and rated 4.94 out of 5 from 39 verified reviews. Read our TrustATrader reviews.
New roofs across Norwich and 40 miles of Norfolk
We re-roof in every Norwich postcode from NR1 to NR8 (see roofers across Norwich by area) and in Sprowston, Thorpe St Andrew, Hellesdon, Costessey, Wymondham, Aylsham, Dereham, Holt and the towns out to the coast. See every area we cover.
Recent work
New roofs and re-roofs we have fitted nearby
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