Roofers in Renfrewshire

Roofing in Renfrewshire

Few Scottish towns carry as much protected building stock as Paisley, and that shapes almost every roofing conversation in Renfrewshire. The wealth of the Coats and Clark thread mills left rows of substantial Victorian and Edwardian tenements and villas, most of them slated, many listed or inside a conservation area. Renfrew, Johnstone and Erskine fill in around that with a mix of older stone terraces and later estate housing.

The complication in tenement Renfrewshire is often legal rather than technical. Under the Tenement (Scotland) Act 2004 the roof over a common close is normally a shared responsibility, and the cost of a re-slate is apportioned between the flats according to the title deeds or, where the deeds are silent, the Act's default rules. A single owner cannot usually just commission the work and expect to recover the money afterwards. Getting a scheme decision properly minuted, and getting the same written specification priced by more than one firm, saves a great deal of argument later.

Technically, the recurring issue is nail sickness in slate now well over a century old, followed closely by chimney stacks. Renfrewshire has a lot of tall multi-flue stacks, exposed on every side, with cracked flaunchings and tired lead soakers, and they leak long before anyone suspects them. Fourteen of the 37 firms listed here advertise roof repairs and six list slate work specifically. Given west-coast rainfall, ask any contractor how they intend to keep the building watertight while the work is under way, because a Paisley re-slate is rarely a three-day job.