Roofers in Bangor

Bangor sits on the County Down shore of Belfast Lough, a Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort and commuter town, and the sea defines its roofing. The handsome villas and terraces along the front take salt-laden wind straight off the lough and the open Irish Sea, which corrodes ferrous fixings fast and lifts any under-secured slate — and much of the older stock is roofed in natural slate, historically the prized Bangor Blue quarried on this very coast. Nail sickness, where sound slates slip because the fixings have rusted, is the common reason these roofs start to fail.

Exposed coastal pitches punish weak ridges and flashings, and roughcast render on many walls makes the roof-to-wall junction a key detail. For Bangor owners, the rules are coastal: copper or stainless fixings rather than iron, mechanical fixing of slates and ridges, and generous headlaps; and where the roof is genuine Bangor Blue, relay the good slate rather than stripping it for cheap imports.