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Epsom’s own conservation appraisal says a lot of the town’s slate roofs are in poor condition and will need replacing soon. If yours is one of them, what you replace it with matters.
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What Epsom roofs are actually like
Epsom and Ewell has an unusual number of conservation areas for a town this size, and their appraisals are unusually blunt about roofs. The Church Street appraisal lists among its issues that “many of the slate roofs are in poor condition and will need to be replaced soon”, and immediately after it notes that “some replacement using concrete roof tiles has already occurred”. That is a council document telling you both that the work is coming and what it does not want you to do with it.
The historic coverings here are slate and handmade clay. The Woodcote appraisal records that handmade clay peg tiles survive on the listed cottages in South Street while natural slate is more common across the area, and it lists concrete tiles replacing clay or slate among the things damaging the place. In the town centre the appraisal describes buildings with hipped clay tile roofs and pitched roofs with a generous overhang, and timber-framed buildings clad in white-painted weatherboard under clay tile.
There is a straightforward reason concrete keeps appearing anyway: it is cheaper, and on a roof that needs doing now the cheapest option is tempting. It is also heavier than slate, so a roof structure built for slate wants checking before it carries it, and on a conservation street it can be the thing that gets refused. The town centre appraisal already complains that shop upper storeys have been disfigured by modern roof materials. We will price the matching option and the cheaper one, and be clear which is which.
What that means for the work
- Slate roofs the council itself says are due: replaced in slate, or in something else with the reasons spelled out
- Handmade clay peg tile on the oldest properties, matched rather than approximated
- Concrete tile is heavier than slate. Timbers checked before anything heavier goes on
- Conservation streets across KT17, KT18 and KT19: we check yours before quoting
Roof repairs
Roof leak repairs, slipped and cracked tiles, storm damage, felt and battens - fixed properly, not papered over.
New roofs & re-roofs
Full re-roofs and new roof installations in slate, clay and concrete tile, with a 10-year workmanship warranty.
Flat roofs
Flat roof replacement and repairs in EPDM rubber and GRP fibreglass, with manufacturer-backed cover on the material.
Guttering, fascias & soffits
Gutter repairs and replacement, leaking joints, overflowing runs and rotten fascia boards, priced in writing.
Gutter cleaning
Gutter clearing and cleaning, downpipes flushed through and the whole run checked while we're up there.
Chimney repairs
Chimney repointing, flaunching and lead flashing on tired stacks. Repairs first, rebuilds only when they're earned.
Getting to you
KT17, KT18 and KT19 are a run down the A24
Epsom sits south west of us past Sutton, and the Downs road is a straight run. Send a photo with your postcode and we will tell you honestly whether it is a repair or the job the council has been warning about.
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Questions
Epsom questions
The council says Epsom slate roofs need replacing. Does that mean mine does?
No, it means the older stock in one conservation area was assessed that way, not that every slate roof in Epsom is finished. Slate usually fails at the fixings first, and a roof losing the odd slate is a repair. What the appraisal does tell you is that this is a town where a fair number of roofs are genuinely near the end, so it is worth having yours looked at properly rather than guessed at.
Can I re-roof in concrete tile to save money?
Sometimes, and there are two things to weigh first. Concrete is heavier than slate, so the roof structure needs to be up to it, which we check as part of a roof check. And on a conservation street it may not be acceptable: the local appraisals list concrete replacing clay or slate among the things harming the area. We will quote both and tell you which one your street will actually take.
My house has odd handmade tiles, not modern ones. Can you match them?
Usually. Handmade clay peg tiles turn up on the oldest Epsom properties and they can still be sourced, new or reclaimed. They cost more than a machine-made tile and they look right, which on a listed or conservation-area house is often the whole point. We will name the tile on the quote so you know exactly what is going up.
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