Roofing Services in North London
Roof repairs, new roofs and roof replacement for homeowners in North London — from a single slipped tile to a complete re-roof.
Elgar Roof covers North London — from Barnet, Finchley and Enfield down through Haringey, Islington and Camden. Terrace roofing is the daily work here: slate repairs, valley and parapet gutters, chimneys, flat-roofed back additions and the roofs of a thousand loft conversions.
The North London roofscape
North London is Victorian and Edwardian terrace country, slated in Welsh slate and now deep into its second century. The classic failure points are exactly where the design concentrates water: central valley gutters on butterfly roofs, parapet gutters behind front walls, and the junctions where a later loft conversion meets original slopes. Further out, the interwar suburbs of Finchley, Southgate and Enfield add hipped clay-tiled semis with mortar ridges and bay-window flashings due attention. Loft conversions deserve their own mention — North London has more than anywhere, and the flat dormer roofs and slate-to-dormer junctions of conversions done decades ago are a steady source of the leaks we trace.
What we do here
Roof repairs and leak-finding, leadwork and chimneys, re-slating and re-roofing, flat roofing for back additions and dormers, and roofline work. Conservation areas are common across these boroughs; where the rules touch your roof we'll flag it and keep materials like-for-like.
Quotations
Free, from photographs and a postcode via the contact page. If the leak has already beaten one roofer, tell us what was tried — it shortens the diagnosis.
Popular roofing services in North 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 North 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 North London — your questions answered
Which boroughs does North London mean for you? +
Our loft conversion's flat roof leaks in heavy rain — who should fix it, roofer or builder? +
The ceiling stain is at the front of the house — is the parapet gutter the likely cause? +
Send us a few photos of the problem with your postcode — we'll confirm coverage and quote for fixing the cause. Free, no obligation.