Neath roofs sit at the bottom of a valley that funnels rain, and that shapes nearly every job here. Blocked gutters, overloaded valleys and worn flashings around older stonework come up far more often in Neath than slipped tiles on their own.
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Neath stands where the River Neath meets the tidal reach heading to Swansea Bay, in the SA10 and SA11 districts of Neath Port Talbot. The town grew around the abbey and later the canal and metal works, so its housing runs from stone-built Victorian terraces through inter-war semis to substantial post-1970s estates at Bryncoch and Cimla.
The Vale of Neath running north-east towards Glynneath is one of the wettest inhabited valleys in Wales, and the rainfall climbs steadily the further up the vale you go.
Cimla sits on high ground above the town and is noticeably more exposed to wind than the streets on the valley floor.
That pattern almost always points to drainage rather than the covering: an overflowing gutter, a valley that cannot cope with the volume, or a flashing that only lets water in when it is running hard.
Yes, from Neath Abbey and Skewen through Tonna, Aberdulais, Resolven and up towards Glynneath and Seven Sisters.
It works while it is intact, but it has no flexibility, so once it cracks it should be replaced with proper lead flashing rather than patched again.
In Neath, the honest first question is usually about the gutters and valleys, not the tiles. That is where we start.