Services
Roofing services
Six kinds of work, from replacing a single tile to re-laying a whole slope. All of it on tiled roofs, across the Aude and just over the border into the Hérault.
A roof is not put right the same way depending on what happened to it. A tile broken by a branch, water getting in from somewhere nobody can find, a ridge working loose, and a covering that has simply reached the end of its life call for four different answers — and four budgets with no relation to each other.
That is why these six pages exist separately rather than as one long list. Each describes real work, with its vocabulary, the things worth watching, and photographs from the jobs themselves.
The list
The six services
Each leads to a full page: what it covers, how it goes, and what gets looked at once someone is up there.
Where to go
Which one is yours?
Four situations that get confused constantly. The right page depends less on what is damaged than on what you already know.
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Water is getting in and you cannot see where
There is nothing to repair until it has been found. The way in is almost never above the stain, and the search is most of the work.
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The fault is visible and you know what it is
A cracked tile, three tiles taken off by a gale: nothing to trace, a decision to take. The repair is contained and short.
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Nothing is leaking, but the roof is going green
The only case where the work happens before anything has gone wrong. Moss forces tiles apart and blocks outlets long before it lets water in.
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Repairs have been stacking up for two winters
Past a certain point the running total overtakes what putting it right properly would have cost. What settles it is the state of the deck, which cannot be seen from the ground.
Index
Every service, with nothing left out
Six pages, 34 services. The pages group work by its nature; this index names each job and takes you straight to the page that covers yours.
Re-roofing and renovation
Repairs
Leaks and call-outs
Maintenance, cleaning and moss removal
Ridges, verges and closures
Flashings and chimneys
Gutters, valley gutters and rainwater
Zinc work
Insulation and underlay
Flat roofs
Roof windows
If a job is not listed here, it is not offered. When in doubt, call: the answer will be yes or no, never “maybe”.
What decides between repair and replacement
- What people assume A leaking roof is a roof to replace.
- What actually happens In the vast majority of cases, no. A leak comes from an awkward detail — a chimney flashing, a valley, a wall abutment, a loose verge — and is treated where it is. A full re-roof is decided on the state of the DECK, not on the presence of a leak.
- What people assume The price of a roof depends on its area.
- What actually happens Area gives an order of magnitude, nothing more. What makes the work is the awkward parts: stacks, valleys, junctions, verges. A small roof with three chimneys takes more hours than a large plain slope.
- What people assume Might as well do the lot while we are at it.
- What actually happens Sometimes true, sometimes exactly the opposite. Stripping a sound old covering means throwing away weathered tiles that no new tile replaces — and on an old building that shows from the street for twenty years.
What points you towards one service or another
- A single stain on a ceiling Almost always an awkward detail, so a repair. The entry point is rarely directly above the stain.
- Several marks, in unrelated places Then it is the deck or the covering as a whole that needs looking at, not one point.
- A dark green slope Established moss: a clean, and above all a search for whatever stops that slope drying.
- A ridge line that undulates Never a tile question. It is the frame, and that means re-roofing.
- Water overflowing down the wall The rainwater goods: an undersized gutter, a lost fall, or a blocked downpipe.
What happens between your call and the quote
- You describe what you see Where, when, after what kind of rain. Photographs from the ground are often enough to frame the problem.
- We go up on the roof A diagnosis is not made from the garden. We lift tiles, look underneath, and trace the water back.
- We show you what we found In photographs if you do not go up. What you cannot see, you should at least be able to look at.
- The quote separates three things What comes off, what goes back on, what is replaced. Without that, two quotes cannot be compared.
- It states what is not included Notably what happens if the deck turns out to be damaged — something discovered at the strip, never before.
Not sure which box you are in?
That happens constantly, and it does not matter. Describe what you can see — the rest gets decided on the roof, not on a form.