Roofer in Swansea, undefined

Swansea covers an enormous spread of roofs, from the Victorian terraces climbing Mount Pleasant and Townhill to the 1930s semis of Sketty and the flat-roofed apartment blocks around the Marina. What a roof needs here depends almost entirely on which part of the city it stands in.

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Swansea: one city, several very different roofscapes

Swansea sits at the head of Swansea Bay with the Gower Peninsula to the west, and the postcode districts SA1 to SA8 run from the waterfront up into the Tawe valley. The city centre was largely rebuilt after the Three Nights' Blitz of February 1941, which is why so much of the core housing dates from the late 1940s and 1950s rather than the Victorian era.

North of the centre, Morriston and Landore grew around the copper and tinplate works along the River Tawe, and the terraces there are steeply stepped with shared party walls and rear valley gutters. West of the centre, Uplands, Brynmill and Sketty are dominated by Edwardian and inter-war housing with bay windows, deep eaves and slate on the older stock.

The waterfront and SA1 area is the newest part of the roofscape: flat and low-pitch decks on apartment blocks and converted dock buildings, fully exposed to south-westerly weather coming straight up the bay.

What that means for roofs across the city

Bay-facing property in SA1, St Thomas and along the seafront takes salt-laden wind directly, which attacks nail fixings, ridge mortar and older painted timber roofline faster than it does inland.
The hillside terraces of Townhill, Mayhill and Mount Pleasant have long shared rear valleys, so a blocked or split valley on one house very often shows up as damp in the neighbour's back bedroom.
Post-war flat-roofed extensions are everywhere in Swansea, and most of the original felt on them is long past its service life.

Which Swansea postcodes do you cover?

SA1 through to SA8, so the whole city from the Marina and St Thomas out to Sketty, Killay and up through Morriston and Clydach.

My Swansea house is a stepped terrace with a shared valley. Is that a problem?

It is very common in the hillside terraces and it is not a fault in itself, but shared valleys need clearing and their lining checked, because a leak in one property often appears next door.

Do slate roofs in Swansea need different work to tiled ones?

Yes. Older Swansea slate roofs are usually nailed to battens with no underlay, so slipped slates are a fixing problem rather than a slate problem, and repairs need to match the existing slate size.

If you tell us the street, we can usually tell you what era the roof is and what tends to fail on it before we even get the ladders out.