Roof Repair in Aughton

Local roof repair in Aughton

Aughton is one of the larger, more established villages bordering Ormskirk to the south, with leafy residential roads, mature gardens and a good spread of housing styles. Alongside older cottages and period property you will find solid inter-war and post-war semis, bungalows and a number of larger detached homes, many of them extended over the years with kitchens, sun rooms and garages.

That mix means a bit of everything when it comes to roofing. Older property tends to carry natural slate, where slipped and cracked slates and tired ridge mortar are the usual faults. Later homes use clay and concrete tile, and the additions across the area bring flat felt, rubber and fibreglass roofs that fail at seams, edges and upstands. Detached garages and outbuildings, common on the larger plots, add their own flat and sheet roofs to keep an eye on.

As with the rest of the West Lancashire Plain, Aughton roofs sit fairly exposed, so wind driven rain tends to find a dry slate, a lifted flat roof edge or a tired chimney flashing before the main covering wears out. A damp mark on a ceiling, a slate out of line on the front pitch or staining at the edge of a flat roof is worth having checked early, while the repair is still small.

Larger Aughton homes often carry more roof than the average semi, with hips, dormers, bay roofs and sometimes a separate garage or annexe, which simply means more joints, more flashings and more places for a fault to start. The mature trees that give the area its leafy feel also drop leaves and debris into gutters and valleys each autumn, so blocked gutters and overflowing valleys are a regular cause of damp behind fascias and at roof edges. A roofer covering Aughton can check the rainwater details alongside the covering, since clearing and refixing a tired gutter is often what stops a leak that looked like a roof problem.