Flashing Repairs in Alton

Flashing Repairs in Alton

Alton customers looking for flashing repairs turn to Hampshire Roof Repairs. Flashing is the material — traditionally lead, though alternatives exist — used to seal the junctions on a roof where two different surfaces meet: a chimney meeting the tiles, a roof meeting a wall, around a dormer window, or at the edge of a roof-light. These junctions can't be sealed with tiles or slates alone because the materials and the angles involved are too different, so flashing bridges the gap and is dressed to shed water away from the joint. It's also one of the more failure-prone parts of a roof, because it has to accommodate genuine thermal movement — expanding and contracting with temperature — as well as wind, and can be dislodged by anything from a heavy gust to nesting birds working under the edge. A lifted or split section of flashing is a very common, very fixable cause of a leak that otherwise looks mysterious, because the tiles either side of it can look completely undamaged. Alton's conservation-area town centre has genuine period roofing — clay tile and some slate — old enough that we regularly find slipped tiles from failed nibs and fixings rather than storm damage as the root cause. Outside the historic core, the newer housing sees more straightforward, weather-driven repairs, but matching materials properly matters more here than in a town without listed buildings nearby.

Why Choose Hampshire Roof Repairs in Alton?

Hampshire Roof Repairs brings the same standard of flashing repairs to every property in Alton, Hampshire. Re-sealing the lead or alternative material that waterproofs every junction on your roof — chimneys, walls, dormers.

Key Benefits

• ✓Covers every type of junction — chimneys, walls, dormers, roof-lights
• ✓Uses correctly dressed, properly lapped flashing rather than sealant as a quick fix
• ✓Often resolves leaks where the surrounding tiles look completely undamaged