Roofing in Howick: Village Shops to Bay Homes
Roof repairs for Howick's village shops, older cottages and coastal homes above Cockle Bay and Mellons Bay.
Roofing in Howick
- A mix of eras
- Coastal exposure
- Hillside sections
Howick has a character the newer eastern suburbs lack. It began as a Fencible settlement in the 1840s, and the village around Picton Street still has a main-street feel, with Stockade Hill above and All Saints Church nearby. Beyond the village, streets run down to beaches such as Cockle Bay and Mellons Bay. One morning we might be on a shop verandah, the next on a clifftop home.
Homes in Howick
Most housing dates from the 1960s to the 1980s, but the range is wider than elsewhere in the east. A few older cottages and villas survive near the village, mid-century homes fill the streets around them, and coastal sections hold larger, newer houses. Commercial buildings along the main street add flat roofs, parapets and verandahs. Properties close to the bays often sit on steep sections.
The roofs we work on here
Roofing is equally varied: corrugated iron on older cottages, long-run steel on mid-century homes, concrete tiles and decramastic on 1970s and 80s houses, and membrane or low-pitch metal on shops. Older iron rusts at laps and nail holes, verandah roofs and box gutters on commercial buildings leak at joints, and coastal homes show salt corrosion on fixings and spouting. Work ranges from patching or replacing old iron on cottages to re-roofing family homes and maintaining flat commercial roofs. Very old roofs on village buildings may include materials that need testing before anyone cuts or removes them.
Weather and exposure
Homes close to the bays catch salt spray and onshore winds, while those further inland are more sheltered. Clifftop and hillside properties get gusty conditions during easterly storms. Pohutukawa and other coastal trees drop leaves and flowers into spouting. Shaded south faces on sloping sites grow moss, and the cooler gullies running down to the beaches can stay damp well into the day.
Typical roofing jobs in Howick
- Replacing rusted corrugated iron with a matching profile on an older cottage near the village.
- Repairing a leaking box gutter and verandah roof on a commercial building along the main street.
- Re-roofing a 1970s home above Cockle Bay in coastal-grade long-run with stainless fixings.
- Clearing pohutukawa debris and replacing corroded spouting on a coastal clifftop property.
Services most asked for here
- Roof RepairsLeaks, cracked tiles, rusted iron and failed flashings across every roof type.
- Roof ReplacementFull re-roofs in Colorsteel, long-run iron or tile when repair no longer pays.
- Roof RestorationClean, repair and re-coat to add years to a tile or metal roof.
- Gutters & SpoutingNew spouting, downpipes and gutter repairs.