What's happening
with your roof?
Pick the closest description. Each one goes straight to the right next step — an emergency call-out, an inspection, or an indicative price.
Roof damage? We can help.
We make the roof safe first and quote the permanent repair afterwards. Everything is photographed at roof level for your insurer, and we do not ask for payment before the roof is secured.
- Storm damage
- Roof leak
- Missing tiles
- Water damage
- Chimney damage
- Emergency repair
Not sure what's wrong
with your roof?
Upload a photo, or open one of our samples, and walk through a preliminary visual assessment of what a roofer would look at first.
What it shows
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Possible moss accumulation
Holds water against the covering and blocks gutters.
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Ridge and flashing detail
The junctions that account for most leaks we attend.
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Gutter and eaves condition
The cheapest fault to fix and the most damaging to leave.
Preliminary visual assessment only. A professional inspection is required to confirm any roofing issue — a photograph cannot show what is under the covering.
Roofing, roofline
and everything between
Fourteen services delivered by directly employed crews. Most jobs start as a repair enquiry and the survey decides where it goes from there.
What would it cost?
Property type, roof size, the job and the covering. About a minute, and you get an indicative range and a programme rather than "prices from".
The same roof, twice
Drag the handle. Moss removal on a shaded north pitch in Blackrock — the tiles underneath were sound and worth protecting.
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Roofs we have finished
Real figures, named materials and what the survey actually found. Four of six shown.
Which covering is
right for your roof?
Pitch, exposure and structure decide more of this than taste does. Six coverings compared on lifespan, maintenance and cost.
What a roof in Cork
actually has to survive
Rainfall totals matter less than wind direction, exposure and salt. These four decide the specification more than anything on a brochure.
1,200 mm
typical annual rainfall, Cork
Cork gets rain on roughly 150 days a year, much of it wind-driven from the south-west. Wind-driven rain travels uphill under a covering, which is why lap and pitch matter more here than the rainfall total does.
How the roof answers it
Correct lap, sealed underlay and dressed flashings keep water moving down and out rather than sideways and in.
Zone 4
exposure across much of West Cork
Coastal Cork sits in one of the more exposed wind zones in Ireland. Uplift at ridges, verges and eaves is what lifts a covering, not the weight of the wind on the middle of the roof.
How the roof answers it
Mechanical dry-fixing at ridge, hip and verge, and clipping to the perimeter courses where exposure demands it.
< 5 km
from the coast, most of our work
Salt accelerates corrosion of fixings and rainwater goods. Galvanised nails that would last decades inland can fail in years on an exposed coastal roof — and when the fixings go, the covering follows.
How the roof answers it
Copper or stainless fixings, aluminium rather than steel rainwater goods, and coatings specified for coastal exposure.
80%+
average relative humidity
A roof space that cannot breathe will condense moisture on the underside of the covering regardless of how good the covering is. Blocked eaves ventilation is the single most common cause of a “leak” that turns out not to be one.
How the roof answers it
Clear eaves ventilation paths, breathable membrane, and vapour control on the warm side of the insulation.
Nine steps, in order
Every job runs the same sequence. The order is what keeps a programme honest — most of what goes wrong on a roof is a step taken too early.
- 01 Same day
Initial enquiry
A phone call or a form. We ask what you are seeing and when it started — that usually narrows it before anyone visits.
- 02 45–90 minutes
Roof inspection
Roof level and roof space where access allows, photographed throughout. No charge and no obligation.
- 03 2 working days
Recommendations
What we found, what is causing it, and the options — including doing nothing yet, where that is honest.
- 04 3–5 working days
Detailed quote
Itemised and fixed against the survey. Materials named, access and waste included, no provisional sums.
- 05 Your timeline
Material selection
Samples on site so you see the covering against your own walls in daylight.
- 06 1 day
Preparation
Scaffold, protection to paths and planting, skip positioned, neighbours notified.
- 07 4–10 days
Installation
Strip, timber checks, membrane, battens, covering, flashings. Sheeted every evening.
- 08 Half a day
Final inspection
Walked with you from the ground and shown roof-level photographs of every detail.
- 09 Ongoing
Aftercare
Workmanship guarantee in writing, and a free check at twelve months if you want one.
Written quotations
Itemised against a measured survey. What you sign is what you pay, with no provisional sums.
Quality materials
Named products and manufacturers on the quote, so you can price them independently.
Professional installation
Directly employed crews. No labour-only subcontractors on domestic work.
Project management
One contact for the whole job, a fixed programme, and a call if anything changes.
Fully insured
Public liability and employer’s liability in place; certificates provided on request.
Aftercare
Workmanship guarantee in writing, transferable if you sell the property.
What they said afterwards
“Three companies quoted. Two gave me a figure on a page; this one gave me photographs of the rafter ends and explained why the felt had gone at the eaves. The price did not move from the quote and they were off site a day early.”
Deirdre Coughlan
Douglas, Cork
Full re-roof · 142 m² · natural slate
“We had a stain on the landing ceiling for two winters and two other roofers had replaced tiles near it. These lads went into the attic first and found it was the back gutter behind the chimney, three metres away. Fixed in a day.”
Pádraig Hurley
Carrigaline, Co. Cork
Leak investigation and chimney flashing
“Rang them at seven in the morning after the storm and they had the roof sheeted by lunchtime. They photographed everything for the insurance without me asking, which made the claim straightforward.”
Mairéad Nyhan
Kinsale, Co. Cork
Storm damage · make-safe and repair
“They took off a section of fascia before quoting and showed me two rotten rafter ends. The other quote I had was cheaper and would have capped straight over them. Glad I paid the difference.”
Tom Buckley
Bandon, Co. Cork
Roofline replacement · fascia, soffit and gutters
“The extension roof had held water since it was built. They lifted it, put firrings in to create a proper fall and laid the new membrane. Two winters on there is not a puddle on it.”
Aoife Lenihan
Clonakilty, Co. Cork
Flat roof renewal · EPDM · 38 m²
“Straightforward job done properly — hand scraped rather than blasted, which is what I wanted. Only note is they were a week later starting than first indicated, though they did ring to say so.”
Kevin O’Donovan
Midleton, Co. Cork
Moss removal and gutter clearance
Cork, and the roads out of it
Most of our work is within forty minutes of Carrigaline. We travel further for full re-roofs and commercial work, and we say so honestly if a site is too far to service properly afterwards.
See the coverage map- Cork City
- Carrigaline
- Kinsale
- Bandon
- Clonakilty
- West Cork
- Midleton
- Macroom
Free and no obligation
Get a roofer up there before you decide anything
Inspection at roof level and in the roof space, photographed throughout, with a written explanation of what we found. No charge, and no pressure afterwards.