Roofers in Kingswood (KT20)
The houses around the Kingswood Warren estate carry some of the largest and most complicated roofs on our patch — multiple pitches, dormers, valleys and turrets on generous, well-screened plots. They are surveyed properly or not at all.
Large roofs, and where the cost actually sits
On the Edwardian and 1930s houses built out across the Warren estate, and the later detached homes along the likes of Warren Drive and Woodland Way, a roof is rarely one simple slope.
Several pitches meet, there are dormers and often decorative detail, and every junction between them is a potential point of failure. What that means in practice is that the price is driven by the valleys, the flashings and the leadwork rather than by the area of tile, and a quote given as one figure tells you almost nothing about the job. We price these as a written schedule broken down by element, so an owner can see what each part of the roof is costing and why.
Working on a house people are living in
Owners here generally expect to carry on living in the house while work goes on, and on a large roof that is a real requirement rather than a courtesy. It means scaffold planned around access and the garden rather than dumped wherever is quickest, protection where materials come down, the site left clean at the end of each day, and a programme that is agreed and then kept to. On a job of this size that discipline matters as much as the roofing itself, and it is the part that most often goes wrong when a roof is priced cheaply.
Who actually does the roofing
Roofing is a specialist trade, and on a complex roof it wants roofers who have done complex roofs.
SG brings in roofers it has worked with for years and manages them on site — we survey, price, run the job and stay answerable for the result.
More in Kingswood
Everything we do in Kingswood is on the Kingswood area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the roofing page.
Common questions
Q.01How do you price a large, complicated roof?
As a written schedule broken down by element rather than one figure. On these roofs most of the cost is in the valleys, flashings and leadwork rather than the area of tile, and you should be able to see that.
Q.02Can we stay in the house while the roof is done?
Yes, and it is planned for — scaffold positioned around access and the garden, protection where material comes down, and the site left clean each day.
Q.03Do you do leadwork?
Yes, and on the Warren estate houses it is often the part of the job that decides whether the roof stays sound. It is priced as its own item.
Q.04How far is Kingswood from your base?
Godstone is a straightforward run across, and we work in KT20 regularly.
Thinking about roofing in Kingswood?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.