Roofers in Newcastle upon Tyne

Willow Roofing works on Newcastle's roofs from a few miles up the road. Our base sits at Arrow Close Business Centre in Killingworth, close enough that the owner can be at a house in Heaton or Fenham within twenty minutes of a call. He has spent more than twenty-three years on the tools, and he still leads every job personally: the survey, the quote, the scaffold plan and the finished ridge line are his responsibility, not a salesman's.

That matters in a city where roofing work varies as much as the streets do. A Victorian terrace in the West End asks different questions of a roofer than a 1930s semi in Kenton or a post-war bungalow north of the Town Moor. Sixty-three reviews on MyBuilder, every one of them positive, suggest we answer those questions well — and a good number of them were written by homeowners on Newcastle streets.

Newcastle's housing is a study in layers. Heaton, Jesmond and Byker are known for their Tyneside flats — two single-storey homes stacked within one terrace, announced by their distinctive pairs of front doors — which share long, continuous roof slopes originally laid in Welsh slate. Fenham's Victorian terraces carry similar slate over century-old timbers, often with mortar-bedded verges and ridges now reaching the end of their working lives.

Move north and the roofscape changes. Kenton's 1930s semis wear hipped, clay-tiled roofs above their bay windows; Gosforth's Edwardian avenues keep their tall chimneys and ornate ridge detail; and Brunton Park's 1950s bungalows carry broad, simple roof planes that are now, seventy years on, coming due for full renewal. Each type fails in its own way, and each deserves a roofer who has worked on all of them.

The record is on the review page rather than in a brochure. We re-roofed a 1950s three-bedroom bungalow on Brunton Park, a job its owner described as excellent in quality and highly competitive in price. In Kenton we repaired roof tiles for a homeowner who noted we arrived exactly when we said we would. We have re-tiled a full pitch on a Victorian terrace, replaced the roof of a large semi ahead of schedule despite bad weather, and clad a storm-damaged dormer in EPDM within a week of being hired.

In Newcastle the work leans towards the old and the shared. Slate re-roofing and pitch-by-pitch renewal dominate in the terraces of Heaton, Fenham and Jesmond, where leadwork around party-wall chimneys is usually part of the same conversation. Kenton and the outer estates bring tile repairs, re-bedded ridges and fascia and gutter renewal, while the city's many flat-roofed dormers, garages and extensions keep our EPDM and GRP work steady. Velux and roof-window fitting follows the city's appetite for loft conversions, and we also remove and refit solar panels whenever the roof beneath them needs attention first.