Roofing and driveways in Blandford Forum

Across Blandford Forum (DT11) it is mostly tile and slate re-roofs on Georgian and later brick property, chimney repointing, and gravel and block paved drives, plus the flat roofs, fascias, guttering and patios that go alongside all of it. Blandford Forum sits inside a nationally designated landscape, so external materials on anything visible get more scrutiny than they would in a town centre. Natural slate, clay tile and gravel or other permeable surfacing are the finishes least likely to raise a question, and they also tend to be what suits the buildings. Every job starts with somebody coming out and looking at it, then a free written estimate, rather than a price guessed over the phone.

No. Blandford Forum is roughly 22 miles from the Salisbury yard, well inside the 100 mile radius we work to, so travel is in the written estimate rather than added on afterwards. Jobs that far out tend to get booked as a solid run of days rather than fitted in around other work.

Yes. Blandford is a Georgian town almost rebuilt in one go after the 1731 fire, so the roofs and stacks there have a lot in common with each other. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find on roofs and drives around Market Place, and what yours is likely to need before anything comes off.

It does. Blandford Forum sits in a designated landscape and a lot of the housing is older stone or brick with slate and clay tile roofs, which means two practical things. Materials on anything visible get looked at more closely, so like for like coverings and natural finishes are the path of least resistance. And the exposure matters: property on high ground here takes weather that flatter parts of Wiltshire do not, which shows up as failed ridge mortar, lifted verges and chimney flaunching cracked right through. Drives tend to be gravel or a permeable surface rather than a sea of block, which suits the setting and the planners equally.

Yes, and it is the reason a lot of people ring us rather than two separate outfits. Roofing and driveways are both done by the same team, so the scaffold, the skips and the muck away are organised once instead of twice, and there is one number to ring if anything needs sorting. On a house in Blandford Forum needing both, doing them together is normally cheaper and always quicker than booking them apart.

Blandford Forum is around 22 miles from the Salisbury yard, so getting out to measure and quote is quick. When we can actually start depends on the diary and, for roofing, on the weather, which is normally a few weeks out. We would rather give you a real date than a hopeful one, so ring and we will tell you where the next honest slot is.