Roof restoration and repairs in Vale Park

Roofs on Vale Park homes

Vale Park is about 5 km north-east of the CBD, in the Town of Walkerville. Walkerville is small and prestigious, with grand homes in Medindie, Gilberton and Walkerville and more modest post-war and newer homes in Vale Park. Many properties are heritage-listed or within historic areas, and slate, terracotta and iron roofs are common on the older homes.

Popular roofing jobs in Vale Park

• Slate and terracotta repairs on heritage homes
• Like-for-like iron re-roofs that suit the streetscape
• Restoring tiled roofs on post-war homes in Vale Park
• Rebedding and repointing ridge capping before it lets water in

What Vale Park roofs have to cope with

The biggest enemy of roofs in Vale Park 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

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 Vale Park for repairs, restorations or a like-for-like re-roof. Parts of the Town of Walkerville 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.