Flashing Repairs in Waterlooville

Flashing Repairs in Waterlooville

Waterlooville 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. Because Waterlooville grew almost entirely through 20th-century estate development, the roofing stock is comparatively young and uniform — mostly concrete tile on standard pitches with generally straightforward access. The repairs we're called out for here tend to be storm-related — slipped tiles and lifted ridge sections after high wind — rather than the age-related material failure you'd expect on an older town's roofs.

Why Choose Hampshire Roof Repairs in Waterlooville?

Hampshire Roof Repairs brings the same standard of flashing repairs to every property in Waterlooville, 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