Roofing in Onehunga: Cottage & Villa Roof Repairs
Cottage and villa re-roofs, repairs and spouting for Onehunga homes near the Manukau Harbour.
Roofing in Onehunga
- A mix of eras
- Harbour edge
- Many rentals
Onehunga sits on the northern shore of the Manukau Harbour, across the water from Mangere Bridge, with the Onehunga Mall shopping strip at its heart and Maungakiekie One Tree Hill rising to the north. It has a long history as a port town and is now a busy, diverse suburb with a train line to the city. Its roofs are as varied as its residents, from nineteenth-century cottages with patched iron to brand-new apartment blocks with membrane roofs.
Homes in Onehunga
Onehunga has some of Auckland's older housing, including workers' cottages and villas from the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially near the town centre and older streets. Interwar bungalows, postwar state houses, brick-and-tile units and modern townhouses and apartments fill out the rest. Plenty of homes are rentals, and the suburb has seen a lot of new development in recent years near the train station and Mall. Many cottages sit close to the boundary.
The roofs we work on here
Corrugated iron on cottages, villas and bungalows is common, along with concrete tile on postwar homes, decramastic on some later re-roofs and long-run steel or membrane on the new apartments and townhouses. Older iron rusts at the laps and around fixings. The oldest cottages often have roofs that have been patched again and again, with mismatched sheets, tired flashings and sometimes no building paper underneath. Postwar concrete tiles become porous and crack where people have walked on them. Typical work includes re-roofing older homes, iron repairs and repaints, tile repairs and new spouting.
Weather and exposure
Homes near the Manukau foreshore catch south-westerly winds coming across the harbour, with some salt in the air. Further inland toward the Mall and One Tree Hill, conditions are more sheltered. Mature street trees and gardens drop leaves into gutters, and shaded roof slopes grow moss. Older homes with long-neglected spouting often overflow during heavy rain.
Typical roofing jobs in Onehunga
- Re-roofing a Victorian workers' cottage in corrugated steel while keeping its original roofline.
- Repairing rust and repainting the iron roof of a 1920s bungalow near the Manukau foreshore.
- Replacing cracked concrete tiles and rebedding ridges on a postwar state house rental.
- Installing new spouting and downpipes on a villa where original gutters have rusted through.
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.