Roofing & Building Services in Brighton

Brighton's housing stock is unusually diverse, and that diversity creates a wide range of roofing and building challenges. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces that make up the bulk of Hanover, Preston Park, and Fiveways were built quickly on a speculative basis; many now show the consequences of deferred maintenance — cracked chimney haunching, slipped ridge tiles, and lead flashings that have worked loose over a century of thermal movement. We carry out this type of repair work week in, week out on Brighton properties.

Kemp Town and the eastern end of the seafront contain a concentration of Regency-era stuccoed terraces and squares. These buildings present their own set of challenges: render that has carbonated and lost adhesion, chimney stacks in exposed positions that see full coastal wind loading, and period detailing — cornices, copings, decorative mouldings — that requires careful matching when repair work is needed. Conservation area rules in parts of Kemp Town and the central Regency squares also restrict material choices, and we are familiar with working within those constraints.

Flat roofs are extremely common on Brighton properties. The bay-window returns on Victorian terraces, rear extensions, and the flat-roofed additions of the mid-twentieth century all require periodic replacement. We install EPDM rubber, GRP fibreglass, and traditional three-layer built-up felt systems, choosing the most appropriate specification for the substrate and exposure. For seafront and near-seafront properties, salt-air degradation is a genuine accelerating factor and we factor that into our material recommendations.

We also carry out full re-roofing, chimney rebuilds and removals, leadwork to LSA standards, and general property maintenance. Our base is in Brighton and our team works across the city every week — meaning quick response times and no added travel costs for Brighton clients.