Roofers in Artane for the Big 1950s Estate Roads
Long uniform runs around Kilmore, Brookwood and Ardlea, built at the changeover from clay to concrete tile. An honest read on where your roof sits, from a family-run Dublin roofer since 1989.
One of the Big Ones, and Built at the Turning Point
Roofers in Artane are working on one of the largest estates on the northside, laid out through the 1950s in long uniform runs around Kilmore, Brookwood and Ardlea and out toward the Malahide Road. Two-storey semis and terraces with hipped roofs, laid out to a plan and built to a pattern that repeats road after road.
Artane sits at an interesting point for a roofer. It was built as the trade was moving from the warm clay tile of the earlier estates to the machine-made concrete tile that took over afterwards, so what is on the roof here depends on exactly when your particular road went up. That decides how the roof has aged and what a replacement should match, which is why we look before we price.
Estate Roofs Age as a Group
The thing that defines roofing on an estate this size is that nothing here is a one-off. Your roof went on the same week as thirty others, with the same tile, the same felt and the same nails, so it is wearing at close to the same rate as the rest of the road. When one house starts losing tiles after a windy night, the neighbours are rarely far behind.
That works in your favour if you use it. Neighbours who have already had work done are a decent guide to where your own roof stands, and where several houses on a road go ahead in the same season the scaffolding, deliveries and skips get easier for everyone. What it should not mean is assuming your roof is finished because the one across the road was. Houses that have had a bit of attention over the years run years longer, which is what the free inspection is for.
The Faults That Repeat Across the Estate
On roads built to one pattern the problems repeat too. These four cover most of what we are called to in Artane.
Tiles Slipping Out of Line
A gap in an otherwise even run is the classic Artane call. The nail holding that tile has rusted through and let go, and because every nail on the roof is the same age, the one that slipped is rarely the only one close to going.
Surfaces Worn Rough Across the Slope
On the later roads the tile is machine-made concrete, and it wears everywhere at once rather than in patches. When the whole slope has gone rough to the touch and the colour has faded out of it, the roof is on one clock rather than needing a few tiles.
Felt Torn Through Above the Ceiling
The bitumen felt under the tile has usually gone brittle and split along the rafters. It is the layer that catches wind-driven rain getting past the tile, and once it has gone the first sign is often a stain on an upstairs ceiling after a bad night rather than a visible problem outside.
Valleys Between the Runs
Where the estate roads step or turn a corner, roofs meet in valleys that carry a lot of water for their size. They fill with moss and debris off the surrounding tile, the water backs up under the courses either side, and the leak shows well away from where the fault actually is.
What We Take On Around Artane
Free inspection first, then an honest answer, including telling you to leave it where the roof still has years in it. Beyond that it is roof repairs for slipped tiles and contained faults, full re-roofs where a covering is spent, chimney repairs on the stacks and gutters, fascia and soffits where the rainwater goods have gone.
Whether your road landed on clay or concrete tile decides a lot, and both are covered on our 1930s to 1950s and 1960s to 1970s pages, within the wider mid-century roof replacement story. Neighbouring Killester, Donnycarney and Beaumont share it. Guide prices are on roofing costs in Dublin. When you want to know, roofers in Artane are one free inspection away.
Questions From Artane Roads
Which parts of Artane do you cover?
A tile slipped and there is no leak yet. Is it urgent?
Half the road has been re-roofed and half has not. Why?
Do you do the whole roof or just the slope that is failing?
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