Chimneys & Leadwork
Where most roof problems actually start.
Ask any experienced roofer where leaks begin and they'll point to the same places: chimneys, flashings, valleys and abutments. The junctions. We've spent four decades getting those details right, in brick and in lead.
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Chimneys & Leadwork services.
Active leak right now?
Don't wait for a web form. Call our direct line for immediate advice on limiting the damage, and we'll tell you how soon we can get to you.
What you can expect from us
Free in-person inspection
We come out and look at the work properly before we advise on anything. There's no charge for that and no obligation afterwards.
A clear written quotation
Everything we suggest is set out on paper, the work, the materials and the timescale, so there are no surprises later.
Workmanship guarantee
New roofs and leadwork carry a workmanship guarantee. If something isn't right, we come back and put it right.
Family-run and insured
You deal with the family, not a call centre. We carry public liability insurance and trade roots documented back to 1984.
Free, no-obligation quotation
Not sure how serious it is?
Send a photo or give us a ring. We'll tell you straight, whether it needs work now, watching, or nothing at all.
From the archive
Chimneys, from the earliest pages of the archive.
The original print here records the replacement of two deteriorating stacks on a detached house, scaffold, take-down, rebuild and new pots. The same job, done the same way, decades on.
See these projects in the archive
The junctions
Tiles rarely leak. Details do.
A roof is a set of slopes that shed water, and a set of junctions where those slopes meet something else: a chimney, a wall, another slope, a dormer. The slopes are simple. The junctions are where the skill is.
Lead is the traditional answer and still the best one, but only when it's the right thickness, cut to the right lengths, fixed so it can move with the weather, and dressed by someone who's done it a few thousand times.
Chimneys add brickwork to the equation: mortar that weathers back, flaunching that cracks, pots that lean. We deal with the brick and the lead together, which is why the stack and the roof around it stay dry.
Real work
From the portfolio.
Biddenden · Date to be confirmed
Chimney stack rebuilt from the roofline
Near Tenterden · Date to be confirmed
Kent peg tile re-roof on a timber-framed farmhouse
Cranbrook · Date to be confirmed
Nail-sick slate roof stripped and re-slated
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Tell us what needs looking at.
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Need something looked at?
Whether it's a leaking roof, an ageing flat roof, a damaged chimney, failing leadwork or a brick wall that needs rebuilding, speak directly to an experienced local contractor.
Just straightforward advice from people who know the trade.