GD Home Improvements covers Leek and the surrounding Staffordshire Moorlands villages.
Leek has a lot of handsome older property — stone, slate and steep pitches from the town's textile years — sitting alongside twentieth-century estates. Both take a battering from moorland weather, and both need work that is done properly rather than quickly.
On older Leek roofs, age tends to show in the fixings before the slates themselves. Nails corrode, slates slip one at a time, and mortar work at ridges and verges loses its grip.
Higher ground and heavier rainfall mean guttering has to cope with real volume. Undersized, blocked or badly aligned gutters send water straight down the wall, and on stone or older brick that leads to damp inside.
Roofline replacement and new rainwater goods are often the sensible first fix before anything else is considered.
All seven of our services are available here: roof repairs and re-roofing, flat roofs, windows and doors, soffits, fascias and guttering, conservatories, property maintenance, and painting and decorating.
Alongside roofing we fit replacement windows and doors, put right leaking or freezing conservatories, carry out general property maintenance and take on interior and exterior decorating.
Call 07957 434779 or email info@gdhomeimprovements.co.uk with your address and a description of the work.
Yes. We match materials so repairs suit the age and character of the building, which matters on the older streets.
It depends on the condition of the slates and the fixings. Individual slipped slates can be replaced; widespread nail failure usually points towards a re-roof, and we will tell you which we think you are looking at.
Exposure means more wind uplift and driving rain, so ridges, verges and flashings need to be sound. Small faults deteriorate faster than they would on a sheltered property.
Yes, including the surrounding Staffordshire Moorlands villages. Give us the postcode and we will confirm.
Tell us what needs looking at and we will arrange a visit and quote in writing.