Leeds has more roof types in one city than most of the county put together. The back-to-backs and through terraces of Armley, Harehills, Beeston and Holbeck were built under Welsh slate on shallow-pitched roofs that need care when they are re-covered. The 1930s semis of Cross Gates, Moortown and Pudsey have concrete tiles that are now reaching the end of their second life. The suburbs are full of 1960s and 1970s houses with flat-roofed garages and extensions that have been felted three times over, and the edges of the city are new build.
We do all of it. Natural slate re-roofs on period terraces, like-for-like concrete tile on semis, GRP flat roofs on garages and kitchen extensions, dormers for loft conversions in the terraces where there is no other way to get a third bedroom, and slate on new-build houses for builders across the city.
Chimneys are a particular Leeds problem. Most terraces have shared stacks that nobody has looked at since the fires went out. We repoint, rebuild or take them down below the roofline and make the roof good, and we are used to agreeing the work with the neighbour who shares the stack.
Getting to Leeds
Morley is ten minutes from the city centre and inside the ring road for most of south and west Leeds. Pudsey, Beeston, Middleton, Rothwell, Wortley and Farnley are all close; north Leeds is a straightforward run up the ring road.
