Roof restoration and repairs in Hillier

Roofs on Hillier homes

Hillier is about 35 km north of the CBD, in the Town of Gawler, with part of the suburb in the City of Playford. Gawler is one of South Australia's oldest towns, with heritage stone homes in the older parts of town and around Church Hill, many with iron roofs and verandahs, and fast-growing new estates on its edges at Evanston Gardens, Evanston South and Gawler East.

Popular roofing jobs in Hillier

• Iron re-roofs and verandah repairs on heritage stone homes
• Leak, tile and gutter repairs on newer estate homes
• Restoring 1970s–90s tiled roofs
• Rebedding and repointing ridge capping before it lets water in

What Hillier roofs have to cope with

The biggest enemy of roofs in Hillier 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 Hillier. 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. Parts of the Town of Gawler are within Historic Area or Character Area Overlays under the Planning and Design Code. Like-for-like repairs are rarely an issue, but changing the roof's material, colour or shape where it can be seen from the street may need development approval. 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.