Roofing Services in Leicester
Roof repairs, new roofs and roof replacement for homeowners in Leicester — from a single slipped tile to a complete re-roof.
From Clarendon Park and Stoneygate to Belgrave, Evington and the western suburbs, Elgar Roof covers the whole of Leicester. Repairs, replacements, flat roofs, chimneys and roofline — inspected first, explained in plain English, quoted clearly.
Leicester's roofscape
Leicester is one of England's great red-brick cities, and its Victorian terraces — built street after street for the hosiery and boot trades — were roofed almost universally in Welsh slate. Those roofs are now 120 years old and more. Slate itself lasts extraordinarily well; the nails holding it don't, which is why slipped slates appear one by one and why a roof that's "always losing the odd slate" is usually telling you about its fixings, not its slates. Around that Victorian core runs the 1930s ring — Evington, Braunstone, Rushey Mead — hipped roofs in clay and early concrete tile with the era's usual mortar-bedded ridges and verges now needing attention.
Work we do across the city
Roof repairs including leak-finding and slate work, re-roofing where fixings or felt have reached the end, flat roofing for the city's countless terrace back additions, chimneys and leadwork, and fascias, soffits and guttering.
Getting a price
Send photographs and your postcode through the contact page — quotations are free. Not sure whether your slate roof is worth repairing again? Our guide to repair versus replacement explains exactly how we make that judgement.
Popular roofing services in Leicester
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 Leicester'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 Leicester — your questions answered
Do you cover the towns and villages around Leicester? +
My terrace keeps losing single slates — repair or re-roof? +
Can you repair the flat roof on a back addition? +
Send us a few photos of the problem with your postcode — we'll confirm coverage and quote for fixing the cause. Free, no obligation.