Roofer in Shenton Park

Roofing in Shenton Park

We have worked on enough Shenton Park roofs to know what we will find before the ladder goes up.

Shenton Park is effectively a suburb of two halves and telling them apart is the whole starting point. On one side there is established character housing. Older stock with the solid walls and suspended timber floors typical of its era, which means a subfloor inspection and attention to rising damp at the base of walls. On the other there is a substantial amount of brownfield redevelopment : a former hospital campus. A former bus depot have both been released for housing, bringing recent apartments and townhouses where institutional and operational buildings once stood. New housing on old working land Ex-institutional and ex-operational sites can carry made ground, demolition fill and buried services beneath the new construction, along with a land-use history worth understanding. None of that makes such housing a poor buy, these sites are generally remediated and engineered properly. But it does mean the site preparation and slab deserve as much attention as the building above and that asking for the fill and remediation records is reasonable. The two halves also demand different inspections outright: a character house is a freestanding building with a subfloor, while a new apartment is a strata proposition of common property, waterproofing membranes and shared structure. It is avoidable. Around the edges, the rail line brings noise and vibration to nearby blocks, while Karrakatta cemetery provides a permanent open buffer on one boundary. Set back from the coast, salt is a moderate rather than leading concern here, though an older tiled roof still merits a look.

Salt does the damage here long before age does. It gets drawn into anything porous and it sits in the laps and creases where water lingers, so fixings, valley irons and gutter seams give out while the tiles above them still look perfectly serviceable. Owners are often surprised by that order of failure.

Low ground holds moisture and the air above it stays damp. Roofs in these pockets dry slowly, mortar stays wet longer than it should and overflow has nowhere useful to go because the soil is already saturated.

Old roofs need a lighter hand than modern ones. Original terracotta is brittle, early profiles have not been manufactured for decades and a century of settlement means very little sits square. Matching salvage stock beats putting modern tiles across an old elevation.

How we approach a Shenton Park job

Two seasons, two mechanisms. Long dry summers strip the surface off tiles and bake flexibility out of old cement. Winter fronts then push water uphill under laps and into any crack that opened during the heat. That is why a roof that behaved perfectly through February suddenly stains a ceiling in July.

Timing is worth planning. Coatings need a dry surface and a dry stretch afterwards, so the practical window runs from spring through to autumn. Repairs happen year round. Storm work happens whenever it has to.

Ten year workmanship warranty on what we do. The coating carries its own manufacturer warranty under our accreditation. Two documents, two different things covered.

A word on how we operate. Employed tradesmen, not a subcontractor lottery. Surrounds protected, gutters flushed of the mess the job creates, site left clean. It sounds obvious. Plenty of people have stories suggesting otherwise.

We cover the whole of the City of Subiaco. Around Shenton Park that takes in Mount Claremont, Subiaco and Karrakatta. Short drives keep roofing affordable on smaller jobs and most of ours are smaller jobs.

Sometimes the honest answer costs us the job. If the tiles are sound and only the ridge has failed, that is what we will quote, even when a bigger number was on the table.

Questions we get asked in Shenton Park

What does it cost? Impossible to answer honestly without seeing the roof. Pitch, access, storeys, condition and the amount of ridge metreage all move the figure considerably.

Will you work on a two storey house? Yes. Access equipment and edge protection are part of the quote rather than a surprise afterwards.

Do you handle solar panels? We can coordinate removal and refitting with your installer where a restoration requires it.

Is a coating just paint? No. It is a high build membrane over a sealed substrate, and the preparation underneath decides whether it lasts a decade or fails in two summers.

Talk to us

Give us a call and we will come and look. No cost, no pressure, and a written quote you can compare against anyone else's.