Roofers in Hackney

Your Local Roofers in E8 & E9

We're based just over the border in Tower Hamlets, so Hackney is only a few minutes away — most days there's a van somewhere between Shoreditch and Clapton. If a slate has slipped or a ceiling has started to stain, we can usually take a look quickly. The quote is free, there's no call-out charge, and there's no pressure to go ahead.

Roofing in Hackney

Hackney has one of the richest mixes of housing in London — Georgian terraces and garden squares, Victorian villas, converted industrial warehouses and post-war estates, often all on the same walk. With around 35 conservation areas across the borough, from De Beauvoir's Georgian streets to Clapton Square and Broadway Market, a lot of Hackney roofs sit under conservation rules: changes to the roofline, the slates or the chimneys have to be done sympathetically, with matching materials, and often need permission.

The roofs we're called to most are the period ones. Slate slips as the original fixing nails rust through after a century or more; lead valleys and parapet gutters block and back up behind the front parapet; and chimney stacks lose their pointing and start to crumble. Around De Beauvoir and Clapton the Georgian and early-Victorian stock often hides box and valley gutters that will flood a top-floor ceiling the moment they silt up.

It isn't all period, though. Hackney's warehouse conversions and the flats above the shops on Mare Street and around Broadway Market carry flat roofs — felt, asphalt, EPDM and GRP — that fail at the seams, upstands and outlets, and the borough's estate blocks have flat roofs of their own.

What We Do in Hackney

Most of our Hackney work is roof repairs — slates matched and refixed, leaks traced to the actual source, chimneys repointed, valley and parapet gutters cleared and relined. We renew gutters, fascias and soffits, lay and patch flat roofs on conversions, extensions and estate blocks, and carry out full re-roofs on terraces past patching. If water's coming in right now, our emergency line answers seven days a week.

Flat Roofing & New Flat Roofs in Hackney

Flat roofs are a big part of our Hackney work because the borough is full of them — warehouse conversions from London Fields to Hackney Wick, rear extensions behind Victorian terraces, and the estate blocks in between. We repair and replace flat roofs in all three main systems: torch-on felt, EPDM rubber and GRP fibreglass. A patch repair is often enough while the covering is sound; when it's past that, we'll quote a new flat roof in writing — EPDM for most extensions and garages, GRP where the roof gets walked on.

On the pitched roofs, when a terrace is past patching we carry out full re-roofs in slate or tile with new membrane, battens and leadwork — done sympathetically on conservation streets.

Why Hackney Homeowners Call Us

We're local and independent, fully insured for public liability, and our workmanship is guaranteed in writing. Because we work across Hackney and neighbouring Tower Hamlets all the time, we know its roofs — and on conservation streets we know how to keep a repair sympathetic, so it satisfies both the council and your neighbours.

Need a roofer in Hackney? Call 020 4578 5836 for a free quote — or send a photo through the form and we'll come back to you the same day.

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