Flashing Repairs in New Milton

Flashing Repairs in New Milton

New Milton customers looking for flashing repairs turn to Hampshire Roof Repairs. Flashing is the material — traditionally lead, though alternatives exist — used to seal the junctions on a roof where two different surfaces meet: a chimney meeting the tiles, a roof meeting a wall, around a dormer window, or at the edge of a roof-light. These junctions can't be sealed with tiles or slates alone because the materials and the angles involved are too different, so flashing bridges the gap and is dressed to shed water away from the joint. It's also one of the more failure-prone parts of a roof, because it has to accommodate genuine thermal movement — expanding and contracting with temperature — as well as wind, and can be dislodged by anything from a heavy gust to nesting birds working under the edge. A lifted or split section of flashing is a very common, very fixable cause of a leak that otherwise looks mysterious, because the tiles either side of it can look completely undamaged. New Milton's housing is largely 20th-century, but its position close to the exposed Solent coastline at Barton-on-Sea means roofs here still take a proper coastal battering, especially on anything facing south toward the sea. Wind-driven rain finding its way in at a chimney or roof-light junction is a more common call here than the age-related fixing failures you'd see on an older inland town's roofs.

Why Choose Hampshire Roof Repairs in New Milton?

Hampshire Roof Repairs brings the same standard of flashing repairs to every property in New Milton, Hampshire. Re-sealing the lead or alternative material that waterproofs every junction on your roof — chimneys, walls, dormers.

Key Benefits

• ✓Covers every type of junction — chimneys, walls, dormers, roof-lights
• ✓Uses correctly dressed, properly lapped flashing rather than sealant as a quick fix
• ✓Often resolves leaks where the surrounding tiles look completely undamaged