Roofers in Warlingham (CR6)
Warlingham is a village of two halves and the roofs follow the same split. Period cottages near the centre where the covering has to be matched, and post-war family houses built with trussed roofs that behave nothing like them.
Cottage roofs near the centre
On the older properties around the village the roof is part of a street that people notice, and what goes back on it matters.
These roofs tend to be hand-made clay or natural slate on timber that has moved a good deal over the years, so the slope is rarely true and relaying it as though it were produces a roof that looks wrong from the pavement. We strip carefully, keep everything sound, relay the salvaged material where it is seen and match the shortfall as closely as it can be matched. Where the property sits in a conservation-minded setting there may be limits on what can be used, and that is established before scaffold goes up rather than after.
Trussed roofs on the newer housing
The 1960s and later family houses out towards the edges are a different structure entirely. Their roofs are made of factory-made trusses, and the important thing about a truss is that it is a single engineered unit — cut a piece out of one to make room for something and you have weakened the whole thing. That matters when people want a rooflight, a loft room or anything else that involves altering the roof structure. It is entirely doable, but it is a designed job with new support put in, not a case of taking a saw to it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is storing up a problem.
Who actually does the roofing
Roofing is a specialist trade. SG brings in roofers it has worked with for years and manages them on site — we survey, price, run the job and stay answerable for the result.
More in Warlingham
Everything we do in Warlingham is on the Warlingham area sheet, and the full detail of how we approach this trade is on the roofing page.
Common questions
Q.01Can I put a rooflight into a 1960s trussed roof?
Yes, but it has to be designed. The trusses cannot simply be cut — new support goes in to carry what the cut member was carrying. It is a routine job done properly and a serious one done badly.
Q.02Will you match the tiles on an older Warlingham cottage?
As closely as they can be matched. We keep the sound original material during the strip and relay it where it is seen, making up the difference with the nearest match available, and we tell you at survey if an exact match does not exist.
Q.03Do you cover the whole of CR6?
Yes, from the village centre out to the family housing on the edges.
Q.04Is my roof worth repairing?
It depends what is failing. Sound covering with tired flashings is worth repairing; fixings and battens gone across the whole roof means repeated repairs cost more over five years than doing it once.
Thinking about roofing in Warlingham?
Tell us what you are planning. We come out, look at the job properly and give you a price for it.