Roof restoration and repairs in Urrbrae

Roofs on Urrbrae homes

Urrbrae is about 6 km south-east of the CBD, in the City of Mitcham. Mitcham has two sides. On the plains, suburbs like Mitcham, Kingswood, Torrens Park, Hawthorn and Colonel Light Gardens are full of character homes with iron and terracotta roofs. Up the hill, Belair, Blackwood, Eden Hills and Coromandel Valley have sloping blocks, split-level homes, tall trees and bushfire risk.

Popular roofing jobs in Urrbrae

• Like-for-like iron and terracotta re-roofs on character homes
• Repointing and restoring tiled roofs on post-war homes
• Heritage-sensitive roof work in Colonel Light Gardens
• Rebedding and repointing ridge capping before it lets water in

What Urrbrae roofs have to cope with

Roofs in Urrbrae deal with long, hot summers, the odd hailstorm and most of the year's rain packed into winter. Concrete tiles become porous as their surface wears, ridge pointing cracks, and valley irons rust where leaves sit. Most of these faults are cheap to fix if they're caught early, and expensive if they're found by a stain on the ceiling.

Before you book

If your home was built before about 1990 and has a grey fibre-cement roof, assume it may contain asbestos: more than 10 square metres must be removed by a licensed removalist. For everything else, the rules are simple. Make sure whoever you hire holds a South Australian building work contractor's licence and gives you a written contract for work of $12,000 or more. Council approval usually isn't needed in Urrbrae for repairs, restorations or a like-for-like re-roof. Parts of the City of Mitcham 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. If you have solar panels, the quote should include an electrician to take them off and refit them.