Roofers Chorley
New roofs, roof repairs, flat roofs and roofline upgrades across Chorley, Buckshaw Village and the surrounding villages.
Chorley, Buckshaw Village and the villages
New Roofs and Roof Repairs Across Chorley
Chorley has two kinds of roof. The newer estates at Buckshaw Village, Gillibrand and the edge of Euxton have roofs that are only fifteen or twenty years old and already showing the shortcuts taken when they were built. The villages around the town, from Adlington to Coppull, have slate and stone roofs that have outlived the people who fitted them. TRS Roofing & Guttering fits new roofs and repairs both, from our base in Pemberton, Wigan, a straight run up the A49 and the M6 to Chorley. New roofs are the job we are asked about most here, so that is where this page starts.
OUR WORK
Before and After: Roofing Work by TRS
OUR LEAD SERVICE
New Roofs in Chorley
Most people in Chorley know a new roof is coming long before they call us. By then the signs have been there for a while: tiles slipping after every windy night, mortar from the ridge in the gutters, a loft that smells damp in February, a ceiling stain that keeps coming back after it has been painted over. Repairs buy time. They stop making sense when the covering itself is at the end of its life.
Our new roof service covers the whole job. Scaffolding goes up first. The old tiles or slates come off, and we inspect the battens, the rafters and the wall plate before anything new goes on. Rotten timber is cut out and replaced, not covered over. Then a breathable membrane, new treated battens, and the covering you have chosen: concrete interlocking tiles on most of the post-war and modern housing, clay tiles or natural slate where the house calls for it.
The ridge and the verges are fixed with dry ridge and dry verge systems, not mortar, so there is nothing up there to crack and blow off in a few winters’ time. If the fascias, soffits and gutters are tired we replace them while the scaffold is up, which is cheaper than coming back for them later.
Timescales depend on the house. A three bedroom semi in Astley Village or Euxton usually takes a week. A larger detached house with hips and valleys takes longer, and the quote says how long before we start. We keep the roof watertight every night and we do not strip more than we can cover before the weather turns. You get a written quote after a survey, with every item priced on its own line, and the price does not move unless we find something under the old roof that nobody could have seen.
FREE, NO OBLIGATION QUOTATION
Get a Quote for Your Chorley Roof
Tell us about the house and what the roof is doing, and we will arrange a survey. Prefer to talk? Call 0800 956 7199 or email info@trsplastics.co.uk.
NEWER ESTATES
Buckshaw Village and the Newer Estates
Buckshaw Village is the biggest housing development Chorley has ever had, and most of it went up between 2005 and 2015. The roofs on those homes were built to a price. We see the same list of problems on estate after estate: ridge tiles bedded in a thin line of mortar that has already cracked, verges pointed in cement that falls out in chunks, undersized gutters that overflow at the corners in heavy rain, and soffit vents that were never fitted so the loft sweats. None of it means the roof is bad. It means the roof was finished quickly, and the finishing is what fails first.
The fixes are not expensive compared with a new roof and they stop the small problems becoming big ones. We replace cracked mortar ridges with a mechanically fixed dry ridge system, which is what BS 5534 has required on new roofs since 2015 and what the original builder should have fitted. We cap the verges with dry verge units so the end tiles are clipped down instead of relying on cement. We upgrade gutters where the run is too long for the outlet, and we swap solid soffits for vented ones where the loft needs air. Where a developer left timber fascias behind a thin plastic capping, we take the lot off and fit proper UPVC fascias and soffits.
The same applies to the 1990s and 2000s estates at Gillibrand, around Astley Village and on the Euxton side of the town. If your home is under twenty five years old and the roof has started dropping bits of mortar, the roofline is where to spend first. We can look at it in one visit and tell you what needs doing now and what can wait.
COVERAGE
The Villages Around Chorley
Chorley is a market town ringed by villages, and the roofs change as you move out from the centre. We work in all of them.
Mostly 1930s to 1970s semis and bungalows with concrete tiles that are now reaching the end of their service life, plus the newer homes that back onto Buckshaw. New roofs and roofline replacements are the usual call.
Stone terraces along the A6 and cottages by the canal, with slate roofs and stone ridges. Re-slating, flashing repairs and chimney work are the common jobs here.
Grew up around the mills and the pit, so there are long rows of brick terraces with shared gullies and slate roofs, alongside 1970s estates with concrete tiles. We do a lot of terrace repairs and gutter work in the village.
Older stone cottages on the hill above the A6 and large new developments below it, which means we might re-slate a 200 year old roof one week and fit dry verge to a two year old one the next.
A village of older cottages and post-war bungalows, with plenty of low pitched roofs where blocked gutters and failed flat roofs over extensions cause most of the trouble.
We also cover Clayton-le-Woods, Astley Village, Heapey, Wheelton, Brindle, Charnock Richard and Croston. Chorley sits between our other working areas in Leigh, Bolton and Preston, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.
EXTENSIONS, GARAGES AND PORCHES
Flat Roof Repairs in Chorley
Most Chorley homes have a flat roof somewhere: over a kitchen extension, a garage, a porch or a bay. The older ones are felt, and felt does not last. It blisters in the sun, splits at the laps and holds water in the low spots until the deck beneath it starts to rot. The first sign is usually a damp patch on the ceiling of the extension, often after a dry spell followed by heavy rain.
Our flat roofing work in Chorley splits into two kinds. Where the roof is basically sound but one detail has gone, a cracked upstand against the house wall, a blocked outlet, a split at a lap, we repair that detail and leave the rest alone. Where the felt has had its time, we replace it with EPDM rubber or GRP fibreglass. Both are laid as a single sheet with no laps to fail, and both last twenty years or more with no maintenance beyond keeping the outlets clear. Our guide to flat roof types explains the differences if you want to read up before you call.
SLIPPED TILES, LEAKS AND FLASHINGS
Roof Repairs in Chorley
Not every roof needs replacing. A couple of slipped tiles after a storm, a lead flashing that has lifted at the chimney, a cracked ridge tile or a verge that has lost its pointing can all be put right in a visit. We carry stock of the common concrete tiles and the slate sizes used across Chorley, so most repairs are done on the first visit without waiting for materials.
Every repair starts with finding the actual leak, not the obvious one. Water travels along battens and rafters before it shows on a ceiling, and the stain is often a long way from the gap. We trace it, fix it and tell you if anything else up there is close to failing, so you are not calling us back in six months for the tile next to the one we replaced.
WHY TRS
Why Chorley Homeowners Choose TRS
TRS Roofing & Guttering is a family run firm with over 20 years in roofing and UPVC roofline work. We are based in Pemberton, Wigan, close enough to Chorley to come out for a survey without making a day of it and to be back quickly if anything needs a second look.
One team does the whole roof. The tiles, the ridge, the verges, the fascias, soffits and gutters are all fitted by us, so there is no gap between a roofer’s job and a roofline fitter’s job for problems to hide in. Quotes are written, itemised and free. The site is kept tidy and the skip goes when we do. You can read what customers across the North West say on our testimonials page and in the Google reviews below.
To talk about a new roof or a repair in Chorley, call 0800 956 7199, email info@trsplastics.co.uk, or send the enquiry form and we will come back to you the same working day.
What our customers say
WHAT WE DO
Our Roofing Services Include…
Every service we offer is listed on our services page, and you can see finished work in our gallery.
QUESTIONS WE GET ASKED
Roofers Chorley FAQs
My house in Buckshaw Village is only fifteen years old. Can it really need roof work?
It can need roofline work, and it often does. The tiles themselves will be fine for decades. The mortar on the ridge and verges, the gutter sizing and the ventilation were the weak points on a lot of estate housing built between 2005 and 2015, and those are what fail first. A dry ridge and dry verge upgrade sorts the mortar problem for good and costs a fraction of a new roof.
Can you fit dry verge to my existing roof without re-roofing?
Yes. On most interlocking tile roofs the old cement is chipped out, the end tiles are lifted, the dry verge units are fixed to the battens and the tiles are clipped back down. A standard semi takes a day. The same goes for dry ridge, which is fitted on a roll-out batten system without disturbing the rest of the roof.
Which villages around Chorley do you cover?
All of them. Euxton, Adlington, Coppull, Whittle-le-Woods, Eccleston, Clayton-le-Woods, Astley Village, Heapey, Wheelton, Brindle, Charnock Richard and Croston, plus Buckshaw Village and the town itself. If you are unsure, call 0800 956 7199 and we will confirm.
What are my options for a failing flat roof on an extension?
Repair or replace. If the felt is mostly sound and one detail has failed we repair the detail. If the felt is blistered, split or holding water across the surface, we replace it with EPDM rubber or GRP fibreglass, both single sheet systems with a working life of twenty years or more. We will tell you which applies after we have looked at it.
How do quotes work for roofing in Chorley?
One of us comes out, inspects the roof from a ladder, not the pavement, and you get a written quote by email with every item priced separately. The survey and the quote are free and there is no obligation. Call 0800 956 7199 or use the enquiry form to book one.