Roof restoration and repairs in Dover Gardens

Roofs on Dover Gardens homes

Dover Gardens is about 12 km south-west of the CBD, in the City of Marion. Marion runs from the inner south to the coast at Hallett Cove. Edwardstown, Ascot Park and Mitchell Park have plenty of post-war homes; Hallett Cove, Sheidow Park and Trott Park were mostly built from the 1970s to the 1990s; Seacombe Heights and Seaview Downs sit on the slopes facing the coast; and Tonsley has new townhouses. A lot of the area's tiled roofs are now 30 to 50 years old.

Popular roofing jobs in Dover Gardens

• Restoring 1970s–90s concrete tile roofs
• Rebedding ridge capping that has cracked and let water in
• Tile-to-Colorbond re-roofs on post-war homes
• Replacing broken tiles and worn valley irons

What Dover Gardens roofs have to cope with

The biggest enemy of roofs in Dover Gardens is the summer sun. Years of heat and UV fade concrete tiles, wear away their coating and crack the mortar under the ridge caps. Then a summer storm or a wet winter finds the gaps. Leaves and dust in the gutters and valleys make overflows more likely, so a clean-out and a quick roof check every few years is cheap insurance.

Before you book

Check three things before you book roof work in Dover Gardens. First, the licence: anyone contracting for building work in SA needs a building work contractor's licence, and jobs of $12,000 or more need a written contract. Second, approvals: repairs, restorations and like-for-like re-roofs usually don't need them. Third, what's on the roof: solar panels have to come off for most restorations and re-roofs, and an old grey fibre-cement roof may contain asbestos, which needs a licensed removalist for anything over 10 square metres.