Roofing Services in London
Roof repairs, new roofs and roof replacement for homeowners in London — from a single slipped tile to a complete re-roof.
Elgar Roof works across London, with north and north-west London our particular patch (each has its own page). Repairs and leak-finding, re-roofs, flat roofing, chimneys, leadwork and roofline — on housing stock that ranges from Georgian terraces to last year's infill.
London roofs are their own subject
The capital's Victorian terraces hide more roof per house than anywhere else in Britain: butterfly ("London") roofs draining to a central valley, parapet and secret gutters lined in lead, slopes invisible from the street. When these leak, the water shows up a long way from the fault — which is why leak-finding here is diagnosis first and always. Add the flat roofs of back additions and outriggers, mansards and dormers from a century of loft conversions, and party-wall details shared with the neighbours, and London roofing rewards method over guesswork: inspect, photograph, explain, then fix the cause.
Services across the capital
Roof repairs including leak tracing, leadwork — parapet gutters, valleys, flashings and chimneys — re-roofing in slate and tile, flat roofing in EPDM, GRP and felt, and roofline work. Access is part of the job in London: where scaffolding or a tower is needed we'll say so in the quotation, not as a surprise afterwards.
Quotations
Free, via the contact page — photographs, your postcode, and a note of anything you already know about access. Conservation area or listed street? Mention it and we'll factor the materials rules in from the start.
Popular roofing services in London
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 London'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 London — your questions answered
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Send us a few photos of the problem with your postcode — we'll confirm coverage and quote for fixing the cause. Free, no obligation.