How Do You Re-Roof a Terraced House on a Steep Street in Maesteg?

Much of Maesteg is built in long rows of valley terraces, many of them on ground that climbs or falls along the street. That shapes everything about a re-roof: where the scaffold stands, how materials arrive, how your roof meets the neighbours' roofs on either side, and how we keep the house watertight overnight. This guide walks through the sequence we follow.

Start with access, not slates

On a steep street the first question is where a lorry can stop and how far materials must be carried. Parking can be tight along terraces in Maesteg, Caerau and Nantyffyllon, so we look at the street before we price, not after. Sometimes a delivery lorry with its own lifting arm can reach; sometimes materials are brought up in smaller loads and stacked on the scaffold.

Scaffolding on sloping ground

A scaffold on a sloping pavement has to be levelled with adjustable bases and tied back securely, and it must leave room for people to pass. Where the street falls away, the front and back of the same house can sit at very different heights, so the scaffold is designed for each elevation separately. Expect it to go up before anything else and come down only once the roof, fascias and guttering are finished.

Party walls and the joins to next door

In a terrace your roof is rarely an island. The ridge usually runs on past your gable line, and the neighbours' roofs share a wall with yours. The detail where they meet matters most, because that junction is where water finds its way in. We strip back carefully, check the party wall upstand, and rebuild the abutment with proper flashings so both sides stay sealed. Work like this may need planning or Building Regulations checks — we advise before work starts.

• Check where your roof line meets next door's before work begins.
• Ask how the party wall junction will be flashed and sealed.
• Tell your neighbours the dates so they can move cars and belongings.
• Agree who clears the loft space beside the party wall.

Stripping in sections so the house stays dry

We never open up a whole terrace roof at once. The roof is stripped, re-battened and covered in sections, each section made weathertight before we move on, with tarpaulins ready for sudden hill showers. Old slates, tiles and battens come off into a chute or enclosed skip, not dropped onto the street. Underlay goes down as soon as the timbers are checked, and any rotten rafter ends or wall plates are repaired as we find them.

Finishing the edges and clearing up

The edges decide whether a re-roof lasts in exposed valley weather. Verges are bedded and pointed, ridges fixed mechanically as well as bedded, and fascias, soffits and gutters renewed so water runs clear of the walls. On a sloping street we make sure downpipes discharge sensibly and not onto a neighbour's step. At the end the street, pavement and gardens are swept and the scaffold is checked before it goes.

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