Roofers in Beaumont, Main Roof, Garage and Conversion
The 1950s and 60s semis here carry more junctions than most, an integral garage below and often a dormer added above. All three looked at in one visit, by a family-run Dublin roofer since 1989.
More Roof Than It Looks From the Road
Roofers in Beaumont are rarely dealing with one simple slope. The semis built here through the 1950s and 60s, off Beaumont Road, Shanliss and the roads running from Collins Avenue, came with an integral garage tucked into the side, and a great many gained an attic conversion in the decades afterwards. That gives a typical house three separate pieces of roof and, more to the point, the junctions between them. The Elm Mount roads sit inside Beaumont as well, at the later end of the same build, so those roofs are running a few years behind the rest of the area on the same curve.
Junctions are where roofs leak. The main covering is machine-made concrete tile that ages predictably enough, but the places where the garage roof meets the wall, where a dormer meets the original slope, and where a valley carries the water off both, are the details doing the hardest work. Those are what we look at first here, because that is where the answer usually is.
Good News About Most Beaumont Leaks
Because so much of the trouble here is at the junctions rather than across the tile, a fair share of what we get called to turns out to be a contained repair rather than a full replacement. A garage abutment can be re-flashed. A dormer can have its flashings, cheeks and flat top renewed on their own. A valley can be cleared and re-lined. All of that is a fraction of the cost of a re-roof and it buys real years.
What we will not do is fix the junction and stay quiet about the tile. If the main covering has gone porous across the slope as well, you deserve to know before you spend, so you can decide whether to do the small job now and the roof later, or take both while the scaffold is up. Either is a reasonable choice, and it is yours to make with the full picture. More on how these roofs age is on our 1960s to 1970s roof replacement page.
Where Beaumont Roofs Actually Leak
Three of these four are junctions rather than the roof itself, which is usually better news than it first looks.
Where the Garage Roof Meets the House
The integral garage is the signature of a Beaumont semi and it brings an extra junction with it. The lower garage roof abuts the main wall, and that abutment relies on flashing that has been there as long as the house. It is one of the most common leak points we find here, and it usually shows as damp inside the garage rather than upstairs.
Concrete Tile Losing Its Face
These roofs carry the machine-made concrete tile that took over in the 1950s and 60s. It wears across the whole slope at once, going rough and losing its colour, and once it is porous it holds water and cracks in frost. A roof that has gone uniformly dull and coarse is telling you where it is.
The Attic Conversion Added Later
A great many houses here gained a dormer through the 1970s and 80s, and that conversion is now decades old itself. Its flashings, cheeks and the small flat roof on top are usually the first things to let water in, and the damp patch in a converted bedroom often has nothing to do with the main roof.
Debris Sitting in the Valleys
Where the main roof meets a garage roof or a rear extension there is a valley, and valleys collect everything the roof sheds. Moss and grit off worn tile packs in, the water backs up under the courses either side, and the resulting leak appears some distance from the actual blockage.
Everything on a Beaumont Roof, One Crew
The free inspection covers the whole property, main roof, garage and conversion together, because on these houses they interact. From there it is roof repairs for junctions and contained faults, flat roof repairs for the top of a dormer or a rear extension, chimney repairs for the stack, and a full re-roof where the tile has genuinely gone.
The wider story of this housing is on our mid-century roof replacement page, and neighbouring Santry, Whitehall and Elm Mount are the same era. If it is the flat part giving trouble, the free flat roof checker gives a quick read, and roofing costs in Dublin has guide figures. When you want it all looked at properly, roofers in Beaumont are one free inspection away.
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