Roofing and driveways in Winchester

Across Winchester (SO23) it is mostly natural slate and clay tile re-roofs, chimney repointing and rebuilds, and permeable driveway surfaces to conservation area frontages, plus the flat roofs, fascias, guttering and patios that go alongside all of it. Winchester has a large conservation area and a great many listed and locally listed buildings, so roof coverings, chimney details and even the surface of a front garden can all be conditioned. On older property the covering is normally expected to go back like for like, and new hard surfacing at the front needs to be permeable or drained to a soakaway rather than into the road. 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. Winchester is roughly 21 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. Winchester is an easy run east and the work there leans heavily towards older roofs, chimneys and lead rather than new drives. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find on roofs and drives around Cathedral, and what yours is likely to need before anything comes off.

It does, more than almost anywhere else we work. A lot of Winchester is period property inside a conservation area, which changes three things. The covering usually has to go back like for like, so natural slate or clay tile rather than whatever is cheapest on the pallet. The chimney stacks are structural to the look of the street and are almost always worth repointing and reflashing rather than taking down. And a front garden being turned into parking needs a permeable surface or a soakaway, which is why resin bound and permeable block are the two we normally suggest there. Outside the conservation boundary, on the postwar and modern housing, none of that applies and the job is a straightforward one.

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 Winchester needing both, doing them together is normally cheaper and always quicker than booking them apart.

Winchester is around 21 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.