Roof restoration and repairs in Westbourne Park

Roofs on Westbourne Park homes

Westbourne Park is about 5 km south 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 Westbourne Park

• 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
• Repairing the join where an older roof meets a rear extension

What Westbourne Park roofs have to cope with

Many older homes in Westbourne Park have corrugated iron roofs, front verandahs and box gutters, or terracotta tiles on interwar bungalows. Iron rusts first at the laps and fixings, box gutters block and overflow, and the join between the original roof and a rear extension is a common leak point. In historic areas, like-for-like iron in a traditional profile is usually the simplest path.

Before you book

Check three things before you book roof work in Westbourne Park. 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 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. 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.