Sutton-in-Ashfield · NG17
Roof Repairs In Sutton-in-Ashfield
Is the leak over your Sutton kitchen coming from the little roof at the back?
Leak tracing, gutter and chimney work on Sutton's knitting-town terraces, from Skegby to Huthwaite
Sutton-in-Ashfield knitted stockings for two hundred years before the pits arrived, and a lot of its housing went up for the people who worked the frames and, later, the factory floors. So when we do roof repairs in Sutton-in-Ashfield, this is what we're usually standing on: long brick terraces with a main roof at the front and a smaller one over the back addition, where the kitchen and bathroom ended up. The front slope usually behaves. The trouble starts where the back roof meets the house wall, where the gutters of six houses join into one run, and around the small chimneys nobody has lit in sixty years. It's rarely dramatic. It's water getting in slowly, in the same three or four places.
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Who does the work
Terrace roofs and a firm you can rely on
In Sutton's terraced streets, one roof's problem quickly becomes the neighbour's. That's the sort of thing you learn in over 20 years of roofing, a trade Chris went into as a teenager. Being local, he knows the town's housing well.
His team finish what they start. Each roof is left watertight, even if it means a late one, and they take real pride in being reliable for the people who ring them.
1,000+
Repairs carried out
10 years
Workmanship guarantee, on paper
Free
Surveys, quotes and honest bad news
No upselling
A patch that will hold gets recommended as a patch
From stocking frames to Pretty Polly
Framework knitting was already established in Sutton by the end of the 1600s, and by 1727 there were forty stocking frames working in the parish. In 1740 Samuel Unwin put up a horse-powered cotton mill to supply them with yarn, and he later lived at Sutton Hall on what is now Sutton Lawn. The trade grew through the nineteenth century, and when the Duke of Portland had King's Mill Reservoir dug in the late 1830s, out-of-work stockingers were among the men holding the spades. Then the factories took over. Pretty Polly began here in 1919 and kept making hosiery on Unwin Road until 2005. Coal came too, at Stanton Hill and further out, and the town kept growing around both.
The housing tells that story street by street. Near the middle of town and out towards Skegby and Stanton Hill you get Victorian and Edwardian brick terraces, mostly slate at the front, often with a single-storey or two-storey back addition carrying its own smaller roof. After the wars came large council-built estates with hipped concrete tiles, and lately new estates towards the M1. On the terraces, the main roof is rarely the first thing to go. The joint between the back addition and the house wall depends on a strip of lead or, worse, a mortar fillet, and once that cracks the water runs down inside the wall and appears on a kitchen ceiling some way from where it got in.
The roof repairs Sutton-in-Ashfield needs most
Roof Leak Repairs
On a Sutton terrace the stain and the source are often a few feet apart. We check where the back addition meets the main wall, the valley between them and the loft, and only then say what's leaking.
See the service : roof leak repairs in Sutton-in-Ashfield
Guttering
One long gutter run across a whole terrace means one sagging joint can flood the wall of the house next door. We realign, reseal or replace the section, and look at the downpipe it drains into.
See the service : guttering in Sutton-in-Ashfield
Chimney Repairs
Many Sutton houses carry a main stack and a smaller one on the back addition that hasn't been used in decades. We repoint, reflaunch and cap them, or take a redundant one down below the roof line.
See the service : chimney repairs in Sutton-in-AshfieldWe also do every other service on the menu in Sutton-in-Ashfield, from fascias to full re-roofs.
Getting the back of a Sutton terrace right, not just the front
Most of what goes wrong on Sutton's older houses happens out of sight from the street. These are the habits that make a repair here last.
Abutments in lead, not mortar
Where a back-addition roof runs into the house wall, a cement fillet will crack within a few winters. We cut a proper chase and fit stepped or cover flashings in lead of the right thickness so the joint can move without opening up.
Gutter runs checked both ways
Before we touch your section we look along the terrace to see where the water is actually going. A fall that's wrong two doors down can still be the reason your downpipe overflows.
Redundant stacks dealt with honestly
A chimney you'll never use still needs to keep water out. We'll tell you whether capping and repointing is enough, or whether taking it down makes more sense for the money.
Neighbours kept in the loop
Shared gutters and stacks mean shared repairs. We explain the problem in writing with photos, so you can show next door what's wrong and why it affects both houses.
Council-built semis understood
Sutton's interwar and post-war estates have their own weak points, mostly hip and ridge bedding and tired felt at the eaves. We check those as a matter of course on any survey.
"On the older Sutton terraces we find the leak is coming from the back-addition roof, not the main slope, far more often than people expect when they ring us."
From the Sutton-in-Ashfield jobs Roof Repairs Mansfield has taken on
How a Sutton-in-Ashfield roof repair runs
First contact
Phone, or use the form. Tell us roughly where the problem is and when it shows up. A rough description is all we need at this stage.
Survey, roof and loft
We check the front slope quickly, then spend most of the time at the back: the abutment where the addition meets the wall, the valley or gutter between the two roofs, the small stack, and the loft for staining that shows where water has been travelling.
The findings, with photos
We show you photos of what we found and explain what failed first and what follows if it's left. Then we say whether it's urgent.
A price that holds
One written figure, broken into lines. Access costs are listed separately, so you can tell how much of the price is scaffolding.
Doing the work
Mortar fillets come out and lead flashings go in, gutter joints are remade or the run replaced, and redundant stacks are repointed and capped or taken down. Anything we spot next door's side gets photographed and pointed out, not touched.
Handover
You get photos of the finished repair, the debris goes away with us, and the 10 year written guarantee is yours before the van leaves Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Ten years, in writing, before we leave the drive
Every roofer in Nottinghamshire will tell you their work is guaranteed. Ask to see the paper and the conversation often changes. Ours doesn't: work booked through Roof Repairs Mansfield carries a 10 year workmanship guarantee as a physical document, dated, signed and handed over with the completion photos - not a line in an email you'll never find again. Materials sit on top of that with their manufacturers' own cover, which differs product to product, so your paperwork names the cover that actually applies to your job.
A guarantee that long only makes commercial sense if repairs are done in a way that doesn't invite a return visit. Around Mansfield that means respecting what the housing actually is: coverings and fixings from the colliery era that fail as systems, not as single tiles, and mortar that has been quietly powdering since the pits shut. So failed material gets stripped back to something sound before new goes on, mortar gets matched to the age of the brick, and anything we can't make right on the day gets said out loud rather than covered over.
The blunt version: if water we were paid to stop finds its way back through our work inside 10 years, we return and put it right at our own cost. That promise has to be cheap to honour - and it is, because of how the work gets done the first time.
10 yrs
Written workmanship cover
1,000+
Repairs carried out
Insured
Public liability held
Named
Manufacturer cover per job
What to do in Sutton-in-Ashfield
For a town best known for hosiery and coal, Sutton has a surprising amount of water and green space on its doorstep, much of it on old industrial land.
Kings Mill Reservoir
Dug between 1837 and 1839 for the 4th Duke of Portland, to keep the mills further down the River Maun supplied with water all year. It sits on the Sutton and Mansfield boundary, with a path most of the way round, and the sailing club has used it since 1959.
Find it on Google Maps : Kings Mill Reservoir
Brierley Forest Park
A Green Flag country park built on the site of Sutton Colliery, which locals called Brierley pit. It has woodland, meadows, the Brierley Waters lake and a volunteer-run visitor centre and café on Skegby Road, Huthwaite. Old pit wheels along the main path are a reminder of what stood here.
Find it on Google Maps : Brierley Forest Park
Teversal Trails
A network of walking, cycling and horse-riding routes along the trackbeds of old colliery railways, a short drive from Skegby and Stanton Hill. The visitor centre on Carnarvon Street has maps and a café, and the routes link up with Silverhill Wood, a landscaped former spoil heap.
Find it on Google Maps : Teversal TrailsSutton-in-Ashfield on the map
about 12 minutes from our yard on Sandy Lane, NG18 2LT. Planning applications here go to Ashfield District Council.
Word from around the town
What homeowners across the Mansfield patch made of the work, in their own words.
"The back bedroom ceiling had a mark that came and went for two years and I'd stopped even noticing it. When Babet hit it turned into a proper leak overnight. They came out two days later, found a split flashing round the chimney - nowhere near where the stain was - and had it done in a morning. Showed me photos of the fault before and after. The quote and the invoice were the same number, which I'm told is rarer than it should be."
"Ours is one of the old colliery houses and the ridge had been shedding bits of mortar onto the path for months. I expected to be told we needed a new roof - the bloke next door had been quoted for exactly that by someone else. Instead they rebedded the ridge, refixed four tiles and told me the rest of the roof was fine for years yet. Charged a fraction of what I'd braced myself for."
"Water was streaming down the front of the house whenever it rained hard and I assumed the worst about the roof. Turned out the gutter had lost its fall and was tipping everything over the edge in one spot. They reset the brackets, sorted a joint, checked the gully at the bottom and were gone within a couple of hours. Also pointed out a slate that wants watching next year rather than fixing now - appreciated that."
"Bought a 1900s terrace near the town centre and the survey flagged the chimney. Two other firms quoted to take it down entirely. These lads went up, told me the stack itself was sound and it just needed repointing with the right mortar, new flaunching and a cap on the dead flue. Three years on the chimney breast is bone dry. Kept the chimney, saved about two grand."
"The extension roof had ponded for years and every couple of winters someone would patch it and it would come back. They were the first to explain the actual problem - no fall on the deck - and quoted to sort that rather than just laying another layer of felt over it. New rubber roof, water actually runs off it now. You get told the truth, which is worth paying for on its own."
Been a customer?
A short review is the most useful thing you can give a local firm - it tells the next household in Mansfield with a dripping ceiling who they can trust with it.
The rest of our patch
Every town and village below gets the same free survey and ten year guarantee, from Warsop down to Kirkby and from Shirebrook across to Ollerton.
Roof repair prices in Sutton-in-Ashfield
On a Sutton terrace the cost mostly comes down to where the problem is and how we reach it. A new lead flashing where the back addition meets the wall is a modest job if we can get a ladder into the yard. If the only way to the back is through the house or over a neighbour's garden, access takes more planning. A gutter fix on a shared run stays cheap if it's one joint, and costs more if the whole length has lost its fall. Taking down a redundant stack is a bigger job than capping it, but it ends the maintenance for good.
See the price guideRoof repair questions from Sutton-in-Ashfield
Who deals with planning for roof work in Sutton-in-Ashfield?
Ashfield District Council, not Mansfield. For most repairs the answer is that you need nothing, because swapping like for like counts as maintenance. The exceptions are listed buildings, such as St Mary Magdalene's church (Grade II*) or the Old Blue Bell, and houses inside the Sutton in Ashfield Church and Market Place conservation area, a compact area of about 14 hectares around the church. There, changes to how the roof looks need a word with Ashfield's planners first. Dormers and roof extensions are worth checking anywhere in the district.
Why does my Sutton-in-Ashfield kitchen ceiling leak when the main roof looks fine?
In a Sutton terrace the water is usually getting in where the back-addition roof meets the house wall. Older houses here often had that joint sealed with a mortar fillet instead of lead, and mortar cracks as the two parts of the building move slightly. Rain then runs down inside the wall and shows up on the ceiling below. A proper lead flashing, chased into the brickwork, is the fix that lasts.
The gutter is shared with next door and they won't fix their part. What can I do?
Start by finding out exactly where the problem is. If the fault is on your section, we can fix it and the issue may go away. If it's on theirs, we'll photograph it and explain in writing how it affects your house, which helps when you talk to them. In some cases we can fit a stop end or adjust the outlet on your side so their water no longer reaches your wall.
Do you cover Skegby, Stanton Hill and Huthwaite as well as Sutton itself?
Yes, all of them. Skegby has some of the oldest houses in the area, including the Grade II listed Kruck Cottage on Old Road, while Stanton Hill and Huthwaite are mostly terraces and semis from the mining years. The repairs differ from street to street rather than village to village, so we treat every survey on its own merits and price it from what we find.
Damp patch at the back of your Sutton house?
Let us find where it is really coming from. We survey anywhere in Sutton, Skegby, Stanton Hill and Huthwaite free of charge, check the back roof as carefully as the front, and give you a fixed written price before any work starts.