Roofing Services in St Albans
Roof repairs, new roofs and roof replacement for homeowners in St Albans — from a single slipped tile to a complete re-roof.
Elgar Roof covers St Albans and Harpenden and the villages between them — the Victorian and Edwardian streets around the city centre and Fleetville, the conservation areas near the Cathedral and St Michael's, and the interwar avenues of Marshalswick and Chiswell Green.
Roofing in a heritage city
St Albans has some of the most attractive — and most carefully protected — housing stock in Hertfordshire, and its roofs are part of that. Welsh slate and handmade clay tile dominate the period streets, and both reward sympathetic work: matching slates rather than nearest-fit, reclaimed clay tiles on visible slopes, lead dressed properly around the city's generous chimneys. In conservation areas the covering you replace with matters formally as well as visually, and like-for-like is generally the requirement; we'll flag it whenever it applies to your street. The interwar suburbs bring hipped clay-tiled roofs now around ninety years old, where ridges, valleys and flashings typically need attention before the tiles themselves.
Our services locally
Roof repairs and leak-finding, re-roofing in slate and clay, chimney repairs, repointing and leadwork — a large share of period-property leaks are really chimney leaks — plus flat roofing and roofline work.
Quotations
Free, via the contact page with photographs and your postcode. For period roofs we often recommend inspecting before pricing, because the right answer — and the right materials — depend on close detail.
Popular roofing services in St Albans
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 St Albans'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 St Albans — your questions answered
We're in a conservation area — what does that mean for roof work? +
Do you cover Harpenden and the villages? +
Is slate worth repairing, or does an old slate roof always need replacing? +
Send us a few photos of the problem with your postcode — we'll confirm coverage and quote for fixing the cause. Free, no obligation.