Roofers in Shirley, Solihull (B90)
Moseley Roofing & Building Services

Roofing in Shirley, From Our Base in Moseley

A quick word first, because England has more than one Shirley. This page is about Shirley in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands: the B90 postcode, with Solihull as its post town and its main shops lined up along the Stratford Road.

We are based at 44 Lifford Close in Moseley (B14 6QL) and we work within roughly 20 km of there. Shirley is on the list of places we cover. For everything else we take on, see the main Birmingham roofing page.

What Shirley's Houses Ask of a Roof

Shirley was rural Warwickshire for most of its history. Shirley grew on the back of the railway and then the car, most of all between the wars and in the years just after. The Jacey Road estate went up in the 1930s, and much of the high street sits in inter-war buildings too.

Today Shirley runs on into Solihull and Birmingham as one continuous built-up area. Robin Hood lies to the north and Solihull Lodge to the west, where the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal skirts the edge of town. In practice that means plenty of houses of a similar age, and roofs that are now getting on for a century old.

A roof of that age tends to need the same things wherever it is. Tiles need re-fixing where they have slipped and ridges rebedding where the mortar has gone. Flashing at the chimney tires, and any flat roof on a later extension needs checking too. None of that is unique to Shirley. It is simply what a 1930s semi asks for after ninety-odd winters.

Roof Repairs in Shirley

A repair job usually starts with a damp patch on a bedroom ceiling or a tile found on the drive after a windy night. We trace where the water is actually getting in, which on a pitched roof is more often a junction than the middle of a slope, and fix that properly rather than smearing over the symptom.

The repairs we carry out across the city are listed in full on their own page, from a single slipped tile to a full leak trace.

Re-Roofing and New Roofs

Sometimes a repair is not the honest answer. When tiles are failing across the whole slope, or the battens and underlay beneath them have had their day, a re-roof can work out better value than years of patching. We will tell you which side of that line your roof sits on, and our page on how a re-roof works explains the job from strip-off to finish.

Flat Roofs on Extensions and Garages

Flat roofs fail in their own way. Water sits where the fall has dropped, seams open up, and the deck underneath can rot quietly long before a stain shows on the ceiling below. If a flat roof can be saved we say so, and if it cannot we say that too, before any work starts. There is more on our flat roofing work on its own page.

Lead Work, Fascias and Soffits

Lead flashing seals the joins where a roof meets a chimney stack, a wall or a valley, and those joins are where plenty of leaks begin. We dress new lead and repair old runs that have split or lifted. The lead work page goes into the detail.

Down at the roof edge, rotten fascia boards and cracked soffits let in water and birds alike. We fit new roofline in UPVC and deal with any rotten timber behind it first; see fascia and soffit replacement for how that goes.

Storm Damage and Leaks

If water is coming through now, ring 07831 854918 before anything else. We will talk you through keeping the room safe, and our aim is to be with you that same day to make the roof secure. The permanent fix gets quoted once the roof is safe. Read what happens on an emergency visit if you want to know what to expect.

Shirley Park and the Station

Shirley Park sits on Stratford Road at the heart of town, a Green Flag park reopened in 2014 with tennis courts and an outdoor gym, and it is a short walk from Shirley railway station. The station's trains run north into Birmingham and south towards Stratford-upon-Avon, which is one reason the streets around both stay in demand.

Those streets are the 1930s estates and post-war semis this page is about. Roofs of that age are now at the point where tiles slip and ridge mortar fails, so if you are near the park or the station and the ceiling has started to stain, we are close by.

The Stratford Road Regeneration

The town centre is changing. The former HSBC site and the former Morrisons site on Stratford Road are both working through redevelopment schemes, care homes and housing among them, after earlier plans were refused. Redevelopment on that scale is becoming part of Shirley's street scene, and we quote for roofing around it, home or business.

Big sites bring lorries, dust and vibration to streets that were quiet. If a crack has appeared in a ceiling or a ridge has shifted since work started nearby, our roof repairs page explains how we trace where water is getting in and fix it properly.

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Nearby Areas We Cover

Beyond Shirley we also cover Hall Green, Yardley Wood and Wythall, along with the rest of south Birmingham. If you cannot tell if your street is on our patch, ask and we will tell you straight.