Roofer in Briton Ferry, undefined

Briton Ferry sits where the River Neath meets the sea beneath the Briton Ferry bridge, and roofs here get both estuary salt and the run-off problems of a town built on a slope.

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Riverside and hillside

Briton Ferry is in SA11 in Neath Port Talbot, at the mouth of the River Neath, spanned by the Briton Ferry bridge carrying the M4 high above the town.

The town grew around the docks, tinplate and steel, and its housing is largely Victorian and Edwardian terraces stepping up the hillside from the river.

The riverside is open to the estuary, while the upper streets sit on a noticeably steep gradient.

What comes up most

Estuary salt shortens the life of nails, brackets and painted roofline near the river.
Stepped terraces on the hillside have shared valleys and stepped flashings that fail before the slate does.
Long gutter runs down a slope need correct falls, and old cast-iron runs here are often sagging.

Should old cast-iron gutters be kept or replaced?

If the sections are sound they can be repaired and rehung, but where they are cracked or the brackets have rusted out, replacing the run is more sensible than patching it.

Which nearby areas do you cover?

Neath, Neath Abbey, Skewen, Baglan, Jersey Marine, Llandarcy and Court Herbert.

Why do stepped terraces leak at the party wall?

Because the roof steps up at each house, so there is a flashing where your slope meets next door's higher wall. That junction, not the slope, is where water usually gets in.

In Briton Ferry the junctions between houses cause more trouble than the roofs themselves.