Roofers in Kings Heath, Birmingham (B14)
Moseley Roofing & Building Services

Roofers on Your Doorstep in Kings Heath

Kings Heath is the next suburb south from Moseley on the A435 Alcester Road, and it is B14, the same postcode district as our base. We are a Moseley firm, based on Lifford Close (B14 6QL). Kings Heath is on the list of places we cover.

Every job here starts the same way, with a free look at the roof and an honest quote for what it needs. For re-roofs, commercial work and the rest, see roofing across the rest of Birmingham.

Kings Heath Roofs: Terraces Off the High Street

Kings Heath sits four miles south of Birmingham city centre. The shops run along the High Street and Alcester Road, and the streets either side are the ones this page is about.

Step off the High Street and you are among terraces. The streets running off it are dominated by pre-1919 terraced housing, mostly owner-occupied, and the city council's 2006 local action plan for the area describes large residential areas of Victorian and Edwardian terraced properties either side of the shops. A lot of those houses are well over a hundred years old, and some roofs have never been fully recovered.

Roofs of that age are often plain tile or slate, usually with a chimney stack, a valley where the back addition meets the main roof, and a small flat roof over a kitchen or bathroom. Those joins are where water gets in. It is the same pattern we see on period houses across south Birmingham, so read it as what old terraces do rather than a Kings Heath survey.

Repairs on Terraced and Period Roofs

On an old terrace a small fault rarely stays small. A slipped slate lets rain onto the battens, and a ridge with loose bedding can lift in the next gale and take its neighbours with it. We fix leaks, cracked and slipped tiles, ridge and hip tiles, and the flashing around stacks. The roof repair page sets out each of those jobs.

On tiled roofs the common faults are slips, cracks and failing verges, and catching them early keeps the job small. Our page on fixing tiled roofs covers each one and what you can check from the garden.

Lead Work at Chimneys and Valleys

A Victorian or Edwardian terrace usually has lead in all the places that move: around the chimney stack, down the valley, and where the back addition meets the main wall. When that lead splits or comes loose from its chase, water follows it straight in. We repair and renew flashings, soakers and valley linings, and there is more on lead flashing and valley work on its own page.

Flat Roofs on Rear Extensions and Outriggers

Plenty of terraced houses have a flat roof somewhere at the back, over a kitchen extension, a bathroom on the outrigger, or a dormer. Those small roofs take a lot of water for their size, often from the pitched roof above, and they tend to show trouble first. Some can be patched for years; some need the deck out. Our page on flat roof repairs and replacements explains how we decide.

Re-Roofing and New Roofs

When a slate or tile roof is failing right across the slope rather than in one spot, a re-roof starts to make more sense than another repair. On a period house that means stripping back, checking the timbers and battens, and covering again. We say plainly when we think that time has come, and the re-roofing page walks through the work.

Storm Damage and Leaks

An active leak in Kings Heath gets the same treatment as one anywhere else we cover. Ring 07831 854918 and we will do our best to get to you the same day to make the roof safe, then quote for the proper repair once the weather allows. Our page on urgent leak repairs covers what to do while you wait.

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Neighbouring Areas

We work on Moseley itself as well as Stirchley, Billesley, Cotteridge and Kings Norton. So if your house sits on the edge of Kings Heath, it makes no difference to us which side of the line it falls.