Bedford: a whole roof, stripped and re-covered.

Once a covering is tired across the whole roof, there is a temptation to keep patching the worst areas one at a time. The trouble is that a patch only lasts as long as the tiles around it, so a run of small repairs quietly turns into a standing job that never quite ends. A full re-roof draws a line under it.

Stripping the roof right back means the parts that never normally get seen can be put right: the underlay, the battens, the valleys where two slopes meet, and the box gutters that carry the water away. Renew those while the scaffold is up and the whole roof works as one, rather than a new surface sitting on tired detail underneath.

The roofline is part of the same thinking. New fascias, soffits and gutters give the re-cover a sound, clean edge to finish back to, and mean the eaves are not the weak point a few winters down the line. Done together, in one visit, it is a roof that sheds water everywhere instead of a repair waiting to come back.