Roofing in Mount Roskill: State House Roof Upgrades
Roof replacements, tile repairs and spouting for Mount Roskill's state houses and postwar family homes.
Roofing in Mount Roskill
- Mostly 1940s-70s homes
- Many rentals
- Larger sections
Mount Roskill stretches south from Balmoral and Sandringham toward Hillsborough, with Dominion Road, May Road and Stoddard Road among its main routes and Puketapapa, the small volcanic cone, near its middle. It is a large, culturally diverse suburb, with churches, schools and busy shopping strips. Housing is changing quickly, so roofing work here mixes older family homes with a lot of new townhouse construction.
Homes in Mount Roskill
A large share of the original housing went up in the 1940s and 50s, including substantial state housing, along with private bungalows and weatherboard homes on generous sections. The 1960s and 70s added brick-and-tile homes and flats. More recently, many quarter-acre sections have been redeveloped with several townhouses or terraced homes, so new and old sit side by side on most streets.
The roofs we work on here
Concrete tile and corrugated iron dominate the older homes, with decramastic on some later houses. State house tiles are often original and now porous, with crumbling ridge bedding. Old iron shows rust at laps and fixings. On the newer townhouses, low-pitch metal and internal gutters appear. Our typical work here includes re-roofing older homes in long-run, restoring sound tile roofs, replacing spouting and repairing early issues on newer builds. Flues and old chimneys on these houses are frequent leak points as their flashings age. Original spouting is often overdue for replacement too.
Weather and exposure
Mount Roskill is inland and fairly open, without much salt but with decent sun and wind exposure on the higher ground. Big flat-ish sections dry quickly, so moss is less of a problem than in leafier suburbs, though south faces still grow lichen. Sudden heavy rain tests old spouting and small downpipes, which often overflow onto paths and foundations. On the higher ground, ridge caps and barge flashings take a beating in strong westerlies.
Typical roofing jobs in Mount Roskill
- Replacing an original 1950s concrete tile roof on a state house with long-run steel
- Re-bedding and re-pointing crumbling ridge caps and replacing cracked tiles on a brick-and-tile home
- Upgrading undersized spouting and downpipes that overflow onto paths during heavy rain
- Repairing flashings on a newer townhouse where a low-pitch roof meets the cladding
Services most asked for here
- Roof RestorationCleaning, ridge re-bedding and re-coating tired concrete and clay tile roofs.
- Roof ReplacementTile-to-metal re-roofs when tiles are porous, brittle or beyond economic repair.
- Roof RepairsCracked tiles, slipped ridges, worn valleys and leaks around chimneys and flues.
- Gutters & SpoutingReplacing original spouting and downpipes that have rusted, sagged or split.