Roof restoration and repairs in Rostrevor

Roofs on Rostrevor homes

Rostrevor climbs into the foothills, with 1960s–80s homes on larger blocks and city views from the higher streets.

Rostrevor is about 9 km north-east of the CBD, in the Campbelltown City Council area, with part of the suburb in the Adelaide Hills Council area. Campbelltown is made up mostly of post-war and 1960s–80s brick homes on good-sized blocks, with foothills streets around Rostrevor and Athelstone and plenty of newer townhouses on subdivided land. Many of the older homes still have their original tiled roof, and the mortar under the ridge capping is often the first thing to go.

Popular roofing jobs in Rostrevor

• Rebedding and repointing ridge capping on 1960s–80s tiled roofs
• Full restorations of concrete tile roofs
• Re-roofing in Colorbond when the tiles are past saving
• Replacing broken tiles and worn valley irons

What Rostrevor roofs have to cope with

The biggest enemy of roofs in Rostrevor 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 Rostrevor. 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.