Our Roofing Projects

The Constraint
A hundred-year-old tiled roof with failed battens and underlayers, and an owner who did not want the original tiles going to landfill.

The Call
Lift and store every tile, rebuild everything beneath, then reinstate the originals at a 72% survival rate rather than supplying new.

The Constraint
A 1912 Edwardian building whose roof structure had moved over a century, with slate and timber both past saving.

The Call
Strip both, pull the structure back to its original position, and re-roof in Glendyne, with chimneys, timber, paint and metal all handled in-house.

The Constraint
A period home with failed ridge mortar, corroded valley metal, leaking chimney junctions and a rotted Dutch gable wall.

The Call
Take on the render as well as the roof, rebuilding the gable in hand-applied roughcast to match, rather than handing the wall to someone else.

The Constraint
A contemporary home where the existing covering was sound but wrong for the building it was sitting on.

The Call
Replace a serviceable roof in a compatible modern material, on the argument that the right roof for the building beats the roof that happens to be there.

The Constraint
Ninety years of accumulated geometry error on a hilltop landmark, an owner who wanted solar, and a heritage precinct that would not tolerate a visible change.

The Call
Correct the geometry at structure level rather than the surface, and put Barrington in two solar zones so the slate coursing runs true across every plane anyone can see.

The Constraint
A working school campus of buildings from different decades, every roof a different material, all ageing at once inside one budget and one term calendar.

The Call
Sequence by condition and risk rather than by building, so the worst roofs were done first and not one building had to close.

The Constraint
An owner rebuilding as a dual occupancy who wanted the original Evans Brothers terracotta on the new house, with the tiles in storage for three years in between.

The Call
Salvage rather than supply, at a 78% survival rate, then reinstall over heavy-duty sarking with every tile cut, wired or clipped.

The Constraint
An 1860s Welsh slate roof with failing battens and metalwork, where a straight replacement would have destroyed irreplaceable original material.

The Call
Strip and reinstate around 80% of the original Welsh slate on new battens, accepting a far slower job to keep 155-year-old stone on the building.