Bradford’s houses were built from the stone under them, and a lot of the older roofs are stone slate: heavy, graded from large at the eaves to small at the ridge, and laid on roofs that were framed to carry the weight. Re-covering a stone slate roof properly means sorting and re-laying the slates by size, on new battens and membrane, and it is a job we enjoy. Where stone slate has been replaced with concrete tile in the past we can go back to slate, or re-lay in a slate-effect tile that keeps the look at a lower cost.
The stone terraces of Great Horton, Manningham, Heaton and Eccleshill have the same chimney issues as every Victorian street: tall shared stacks, soft mortar and lead flashings that were last touched decades ago. We repoint, rebuild and re-lead them, or take redundant stacks down below the roofline.
Further out, the semis and bungalows of Wibsey, Clayton and Thornton are concrete tile with flat-roofed garages, and the newer estates around Apperley Bridge and Menston are where our new-build slate work comes in.
Getting to Bradford
Bradford city centre is about twenty minutes from Morley along the M62 and M606, with Wyke, Low Moor, Odsal and Bierley nearer still. Shipley, Idle, Thornton and Queensbury are all comfortably within our patch.
