Roof Repair & Preventive Maintenance
Service Overview
Most roofs are replaced years before they need to be, because a detail that could have been repaired for a few hundred was left for three winters. Steelcrest's maintenance programme is built around the four things that actually fail — flashing, valleys, penetrations and drainage — checked twice a year and repaired while they are still small.
What a maintenance visit covers
Twice a year, before and after the weather that does the damage:
- Gutters, downpipes and valleys cleared and tested
- Flashing checked at every chimney, wall and penetration
- Loose, cracked and missing units replaced
- Loft inspection for daylight, damp and stained felt
- A written report with photographs of anything found
Repairs, before they stop being repairs
A leak found in its first season costs a flashing repair. The same leak found in its third has usually taken the decking, the insulation and the ceiling with it — and water never sits where it enters, so the damage is always larger than the fault that caused it.
- Leak tracing by water test, not by guesswork
- Localised decking replacement where boards have softened
- Flashing re-dressed rather than sealed over
- Fixed-price repairs quoted from the report
