Roofers in Stubbington

Stubbington was once part of the ancient parish of Titchfield, and in 1894 Crofton, with Stubbington and Lee-on-the-Solent, became a civil parish in its own right. The 1908 volume of the Victoria County History pictures it as a few dozen cottages and farms scattered over flat country, with a village gathered only round the green at Crofton. Stubbington House stood at the corner of that green and served as a naval school. A hundred and more years on, the scattered cottages have been joined by everything a town needs, and the roofs that cover them have little in common but the weather. That variety is the first thing we allow for when we are asked to look at a roof here, and it is why no two surveys in Stubbington begin with the same assumption. A gable end that has been rendered, a porch that was added in a later decade and a dormer that came with a loft conversion each make the roof behave differently from the plan it was built to.

1.1 Old cottage roofs, young estates and everything between

Because the town is a patchwork, the age of the house tells you less than the date of the last time the roof was worked on. A cottage whose roof was relaid in the 1980s can be in better order than a newer house that was never touched. We therefore start with evidence and not assumptions: a look inside the loft, a close look at the tiles or slates, and a check of the ridge and the chimney flashings. Pictures of each problem travel with the written quote, which means you see the same defects we do.

1.2 Chimneys on the older cottages

Cottage roofs often carry a stack or two, and the lead round the base is where a leak from an old roof usually starts. MyJobQuote gives a typical patch to chimney lead of £150 to £250, and a full renewal of £350 to £460 without a scaffold or £700 to £920 with one. Those are UK averages that show why access matters, not a price for your stack. Our chimney repairs page explains when repointing, a new flashing or a rebuild is the right answer.

1.3 Big houses and long gutter runs

An institutional building such as Stubbington House needed roofs of a size and complexity that ordinary houses never see. Multiple pitches meet at valleys, and valleys carry the water of two slopes. A large house nearby may have the same layout in miniature. In that case the gutters and downpipes are the most heavily worked parts of the roof, and one blocked outlet can tip a whole valley's worth of rain down a wall. Our guttering, soffit and fascia page explains how a rainwater system is renewed.

The Victoria County History places Stubbington on the flat coastal plain between Fareham and the Solent, and that setting decides much of what a roof here must put up with. There is nothing to break the sea weather before it reaches the house, so gales, wind-blown rain and salt air close to the water all test the same details: ridges, verges, flashings and the edges of flat roofs. Stubbington itself has no conservation area. Fareham Borough Council lists 13 and none is named for Stubbington or Crofton, and the council's Article 4 direction pages exist only for Portchester and Titchfield. A like-for-like repair therefore rarely brings extra planning questions, though a listed building is different.

3.1 Extensions, garages and the exposed flat roof

Out on the open plain, a flat roof over an extension or garage takes the weather with no shelter at all. Torch-on felt is quoted at 10 to 20 years by Less, EPDM at 20 to 30 years or more, and GRP at 25 to 40. The BS 6229:2025 code keeps a minimum finished fall of 1:80, and designers aim steeper. Ponding after rain means the fall has gone, and a membrane that sits in water ages faster than one that drains. Where the deck below is sound, a new covering laid to a better fall is often the long-term answer, while a soft deck has to be replaced first. Our flat roofing page lists the coverings and how each is detailed at the edges.

3.2 After a gale

When a storm lifts tiles or tears a flat-roof edge, the order matters. Which? advises making the house safe, telling your insurer first, photographing the damage and saving receipts for any temporary fix. A roof leaking after a gale is stopped from letting in more water first, and the lasting repair is planned once the weather allows. Our emergency roof repairs page explains the first visit.

3.3 Scaffolding and the cost of reaching a roof

Access is a real part of the price. Checkatrade quotes around £875 a month for scaffolding a two-storey semi-detached home and £1,000 a month for a detached bungalow, as typical UK figures. If the scaffold obstructs the highway, a licence is needed, and Hampshire County Council says the scaffold firm applies for its customers. Hampshire County Council wants 10 clear working days to pass from application to intended start, and charges £211.90 for the first two weeks. That wait is why we plan access early and give a single written total after the survey, so scaffolding is never a surprise.