Roofers in
Hillsborough.

The local picture

What Hillsborough
roofs are like.

Hillsborough is dominated by two-storey Yorkshire-stone terraces and back-to-backs from the 1890s to 1910s, with pockets of 1930s semis up towards Wadsley and Loxley. The terraces almost always have shared party-wall chimneys and steep slate pitches, which means slipped slates and failed lead valleys are the two calls we get most.

We know the patch — Hillsborough Park, Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium, the Hillsborough Barracks and the Rivelin and Loxley valleys.

What we fix most in S6

• Nail-sickness in century-old Welsh slate — the fixing nails corrode and whole rows begin to slip at once.
• Cracked cement fillets where terraces meet a neighbour’s roof, instead of proper lead soakers.
• Blocked and undersized valley gutters between the tight terraced pitches after heavy Loxley-valley rain.
• Shared chimney stacks with crumbling flaunching letting damp into the top bedrooms.

Because so many Hillsborough roofs share a party wall, we always survey how your work meets the neighbour’s roof before we quote — getting the lead detailing right there is what stops the next leak.