Port Talbot roofs live with two things almost no inland town deals with at once: salt-laden onshore wind off Swansea Bay and airborne grit and deposits from heavy industry. Both shorten the life of fixings, roofline paint and ridge mortar.
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Port Talbot lies on Swansea Bay in the SA12 and SA13 districts, with the steelworks and docks on the seaward side and the M4 running along the hillside above the town on the elevated section through Port Talbot.
Aberavon is the seafront district, with a long sand beach and housing that faces the bay with almost no shelter. Baglan and Sandfields are largely post-war estates, while Taibach and Margam hold older stone and brick terraces closer to the works.
Margam Park and the ridge behind the town rise sharply, so wind coming off the sea is pushed and accelerated over the housing between the beach and the hillside.
It shortens the life of the metal and timber parts more than the tiles. Fixings, brackets and painted timber go first, which is why exposed roofs here need the roofline checked more often.
Aberavon, Sandfields, Baglan, Taibach, Margam, Port Talbot town and Briton Ferry.
On an exposed gable the mortar bedding at the verge is the first thing wind finds. Once it has cracked, each gust works it looser, so it needs re-bedding or a mechanical dry-verge system rather than a patch.
On the seafront side of Port Talbot the roofline and the fixings usually need attention before the tiles do.