Roofing Services in Bedford
Roof repairs, new roofs and roof replacement for homeowners in Bedford — from a single slipped tile to a complete re-roof.
Elgar Roof covers Bedford and Kempston and the villages around them — from the Victorian and Edwardian streets off the Embankment to Queens Park, Castle Road and the newer estates at Wixams and Great Denham.
Bedford's roofs
Bedford sits in old brickmaking country, and its housing shows it: solid Victorian villas and terraces in local brick, roofed in Welsh slate with generous chimneys, then rings of interwar and post-war suburbs in clay and concrete tile. The Victorian stock is now dealing with the standard second-century problems — nail-sick slate, weathered lead, soft chimney mortar — all repairable, and all cheaper the earlier they're caught. The interwar semis add hipped roofs with mortar-bedded ridges and the timber rooflines of the period, which by now have usually earned their uPVC replacement.
What we do in Bedford
Roof repairs and leak-finding, re-roofing and new roofs, flat roofing, chimney repairs, repointing and leadwork — Bedford's tall stacks generate a steady share of the leaks we trace — and fascias, soffits and guttering.
Quotations
Free and without obligation. Send photographs and your postcode via the contact page; if the problem needs eyes on the roof before an honest price is possible, we'll say so rather than guess.
Popular roofing services in Bedford
Finding the real source of the leak — then fixing that, not the symptom.
Stripped to the timbers and rebuilt to last the next fifty years and more.
Stacks take the worst weather on the house — kept sound, top to flashing.
The boards that carry your gutters and close your roof — replaced properly.
Made safe first, repaired properly second — with the photographs your insurer needs.
A new covering on sound bones — the most common kind of "new roof".
Roofing for Bedford's homes, by property type
Every era of house has its own roof — and its own way of failing. Find yours for the detail.
Slate roofs into their second century — repaired with matching materials and a proper understanding of how terraces work.
Hipped clay-tile roofs, mortar ridges and bay windows — ninety years old and very fixable.
The 1950s–70s estates are reaching re-roofing age together — get the honest verdict on yours.
Young roofs with small faults — fixed properly before they find your plasterwork.
More roof per house than anything else we work on — and the easiest roofs to look after well.
Old roofs kept old — sympathetic materials, conservation rules respected, and honesty about specialist work.
Communal roofs, converted houses and top-floor leaks — with the responsibility question untangled first.
Roofing in Bedford — your questions answered
Do you cover the villages around Bedford? +
Water stains keep appearing around our chimney breast — what's likely? +
Can you re-roof just the back slope of a terrace? +
Send us a few photos of the problem with your postcode — we'll confirm coverage and quote for fixing the cause. Free, no obligation.