Flat roofing across Glasgow
Blistered felt, open seams, a puddle that sits for days after the rain. We survey the deck and edges, repair what can be saved and lay EPDM roofing over what cannot. Send us the postcode to book it.
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Quick Quote OnlineMoss was sliding off our tenement roof into the gutters every winter. They cleared the lot, took the gutters back to clean metal and treated the slates. First dry close in years.
Lead flashing round the chimney on our slate roof had lifted and the bedroom ceiling was marking. Surveyed it, priced it in writing, redressed the lead properly. No drama, no upsell.
Flat roof on the kitchen extension started dripping during a downpour. They came out in the rain, patched it and stopped the water, then came back and put EPDM over the whole thing.
New guttering and fascias the full length of the house. Old timber was rotten behind the boards, which they showed me before touching it. Tidy job and the price did not move.
Chimney stack was shedding mortar onto the pavement. Repointed, new flaunching, cowls on both pots, lead tray at the base. Explained every step and left the close spotless.
Two slipped slates and a cracked ridge after the January storms. Fixed the same week, matched the slate, and the written quote came before anyone went up a ladder.
What we look for
A flat roof is never quite flat, and when the deck sags or the outlet blocks, the water stops draining and sits. Felt under standing water blisters, the seams lift, and the first heavy front pushes water through the lap and onto the plasterboard below. On an extension or a tenement back court the drip often shows up a long way from the puddle.
The survey walks the roof, checks the deck for soft spots, looks at every seam, outlet and edge trim and photographs it. Then you get a plain answer: this can be patched, this section needs relaying, or the whole roof is at the end of its life. The answer comes before the price and the price comes in writing, which is how we work on a flat roof exactly as on a pitched one.
Repair or EPDM
Where the felt is sound and one seam or one blister has failed, we repair it and detail the edge so the repair outlasts the rest of the roof. Where the covering has gone across the whole area, the old felt comes off, the deck is replaced where it is soft and a single sheet of EPDM rubber goes down with no seams to open. The edges and outlets are trimmed and detailed for the rain.
The EPDM is warranty-backed and the terms go in your paperwork with the quote. The roof is photographed when it is finished, so you see the membrane and the edge detail without going up a ladder. If water is coming through the ceiling right now, an emergency roofer makes it watertight first and the relay is priced after.
Where we work
The city and the towns around it, north and south of the Clyde. If yours is not on the list, send us the postcode and we will tell you straight.
Not sure the roof is in our patch? Get in touch with the postcode and we will say.
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A flat roof usually meets a pitched one somewhere. These are the other jobs we do, and every roofing service we offer starts the same way: survey first, then the price in writing.
Rotten fascia boards, sagging gutters and soffits that let the birds in, fixed as one run of roofline. We replace fascias and guttering together so the brackets hold and the water goes down the pipe.
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Lifted lead flashing round chimneys, valleys and abutments is where most Glasgow leaks start. We strip the old lead work, dress new lead properly and seal the joint so the ceiling stays dry.
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Slipped slates, cracked tiles, a wet patch that shows up after every front. A roofer surveys the whole roof first, then the repair is priced in writing so you know exactly what is being fixed.
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Slate or tile pitched roofing, repaired or replaced to match the street and carry the weight properly. Ridge, hip and valley work done in the same job, with the felt and battens checked underneath.
Re-Roof A Slate Or Tile Pitched Roof
One roofing contractor for the full re-roof: strip, timber checks, felt, battens, new slates or tiles and the leadwork. Scaffold is sorted, the site is kept tidy and the price is fixed in writing.
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Moss holds water against the slates and slides into the gutters every winter. Roof moss removal lifts it off by hand, clears the gutters and treats the roof so it stays off for far longer.
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Loose pots, crumbling mortar and damp on the chimney breast mean the stack needs looking at. Chimney repair covers repointing, new flaunching, cowls and lead, or taking the stack down cleanly.
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Storm damage, a leak coming through the ceiling or slates hanging over the pavement. An emergency roofer makes it safe and stops the water first, then the full repair is priced in writing.
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Postcode first. Then a name and how to reach you. We reply, book the survey, and the price follows in writing. No phone calls you did not ask for.
Straight answers
If your question is not here, send it through the contact page and we will answer it about your roof rather than roofs in general. The longer answers, with the reasons behind them, live in our roofing guides.
Both are possible and the survey decides. A felt roof with a sound deck and one failed seam or blister is repaired. A felt roof that is ponding across the middle, has blistered in several places or has soft decking under it is past patching, and the honest answer is to strip it and lay EPDM. We put whichever it is in writing with the photographs.
EPDM is a rubber membrane laid as one sheet across the whole roof, so there are no laps for the water to find. It stays flexible in the cold and does not blister in the sun the way felt does, which suits a roof that gets west-coast rain most of the year. We lay it over a sound deck with the edges and outlets detailed, and the materials are warranty-backed.
Because the water has nowhere to go. Either the outlet is blocked with moss and leaf litter, the deck has sagged between the joists, or the roof was laid without enough fall in the first place. Ponding on its own is a warning rather than a leak, but felt under standing water fails faster, so it is worth a survey before it becomes a drip.
Yes. Kitchen extensions, garage roofs, dormer tops and tenement back-court roofs are most of the flat roofing we see in Glasgow. The small ones fail the same way the big ones do, at the edge and the outlet, and they are surveyed and priced the same way. If the lead where the flat roof meets the slates has gone too, flashing and lead work is done in the same visit.
We walk the roof rather than guessing from the stain, because water travels a long way under felt before it drops through. Every seam, blister, edge trim and outlet is checked and the deck is pressed for soft spots. The report says where it is getting in, with the photograph, and the repair is priced against that. Nobody prices a flat roof from a photo.
Glasgow and the towns around it: Rutherglen, Bishopbriggs, Bearsden, Giffnock, Renfrew, Cambuslang, Clarkston, Milngavie, Clydebank, Kirkintilloch, Newton Mearns, Paisley and the places between, each listed with its distance from the city under the areas we cover. Put your postcode in the quote form and we will confirm.
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Name, where the roof is, which of our roofing services you need if you know it, and anything you have noticed. No sales call back. A reply, then a survey date, the way we always work.
A person reads what you sent and comes back to book the survey.
Slates, flashings, gutters, chimney. What needs doing and what can wait.
One itemised price. Then it is your decision, in your own time.
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