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Frontal elevation of a re-laid Welsh slate terrace roof, wet after rain, with chimney pots on the skyline.

SURVEY 0912 · BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY · 1890s TERRACE · WELSH SLATE · NAIL SICKNESS, 40% SLIP · FULL STRIP AND RE-LAY

WELSH SLATE.
DONE PROPERLY.

PITCHED & FLAT ROOFING · HERITAGE & SLATE SPECIALISTS · SHREWSBURY & ALL SHROPSHIRE · SINCE 2009

FREE WRITTEN SURVEY · PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR OWN ROOF · NO OBLIGATION

The ledger — Kilnbrook Roofing in measured numbers

THE LEDGER · INSTRUMENT READINGS · HELD SINCE 2009

Roofs completed across Shropshire

900+

FILES 0001–0912 · ON PAPER

Trading since

2009

SAME THREE-PERSON CREW THROUGHOUT

Most repair calls attended within

24H

STORM DAMAGE & LEAK RESPONSE

Workmanship guarantee, full re-roofs

10YR

IN WRITING, WITH THE SURVEY

THE WORK · FILES 01–03 · PHOTOGRAPHED MID-JOB

PITCHED. FLAT. HERITAGE.

Three disciplines, one rule: nothing gets claimed without a named material and a photograph of the work in progress.

Stripped pitched roof showing bare battens with new Welsh slate courses laid part-way up

PENRHYN SLATE · TREATED BATTEN · COPPER NAIL

PITCHED — SLATE & TILE

Strip, re-batten and re-lay in Welsh slate or matched clay tile; repairs from one slipped course to a storm-lifted ridge. Nail sickness is how most of these roofs find us — the survey names it before the quote does.

SEE THE PITCHED FILES
EPDM rubber membrane part-rolled across a new flat roof deck with a seam roller on the boards

EPDM MEMBRANE · GRP LAMINATE · THREE-LAYER FELT

FLAT — EPDM, GRP & FELT

Garage, dormer and extension decks stripped to the boards and rebuilt with the membrane the roof needs, not the one on the van. Falls are corrected so water leaves the deck instead of ponding on it.

SEE THE FLAT FILES
Roofer's hands dressing lead into a brick chimney flashing above wet slate courses

RECLAIMED WELSH SLATE · LEAD CODE 4–5 · LIME MORTAR

HERITAGE & CONSERVATION

Listed and conservation-area roofs across Shrewsbury and Church Stretton: slate matched by quarry, clay tile sourced reclaimed, lead dressed to LSA guidance. The paperwork is written to satisfy the conservation officer, not to get past them.

OPEN THE CONSERVATION FILE

THE CASE FILES · 900+ OPENED SINCE 2009 · FOUR PULLED FOR INSPECTION

EVERY ROOF LEAVES A FILE.

Every Kilnbrook job gets a number, a survey, photographs from height and a written account of what was found and what was done. Four pulled from the drawer — a stone cottage, a flat garage roof, a clay-tiled semi and a terrace chimney — so you can see the register your own roof would join.

Stone cottage with a newly re-laid riven slate roof, photographed square-on against green hills
Heap of moss-blackened slipped slates piled on a tarpaulin BEFORE

SURVEY 0847

STONE COTTAGE RE-SLATE

Place
Church Stretton · SY6
Roof
Stone cottage, c.1900 — north pitch worst
Material
Reclaimed Ffestiniog slate, riven, sorted by thickness
Defect
Nail sickness; slipped courses the length of the pitch
Work
Full strip, re-batten, re-slate; code 4 lead valleys
On site
Three weeks, scaffold up to sweep-up
Finished flat garage roof in one sheet of dark EPDM with neat grey edge trims
Blistered felt flat roof holding standing water before replacement BEFORE

SURVEY 0791

FLAT GARAGE ROOF, RE-DECKED

Place
Monkmoor · SY2
Roof
Flat garage roof, felt, laid c.1985
Material
Single-ply EPDM on new deck and insulation
Defect
Ponding, blistered felt, rot in the boards beneath
Work
Stripped to joists; deck renewed; falls corrected; EPDM laid in one sheet
On site
Two days
1930s semi-detached house with a newly re-roofed clay tile roof in matched red-brown tiles
Frost-spalled clay tiles flaking apart with moss in the laps BEFORE

SURVEY 0903

CLAY TILE RE-ROOF

Place
Bayston Hill · SY3
Roof
1930s semi, clay tile
Material
Reclaimed sand-faced clay tile, matched to the attached neighbour
Defect
Frost-spalled tiles; torching failed in the loft
Work
Re-roof on breathable membrane; ridge re-bedded; matched tile throughout
On site
Two weeks
Repointed brick chimney stack with new stepped lead flashings on a slate terrace roof
Weathered chimney stack with eroded mortar joints and cracked flaunching before repair BEFORE

SURVEY 0876

CHIMNEY & LEAD RENEWAL

Place
Belle Vue · SY3
Roof
1890s brick terrace; stack over the party wall
Material
Lead code 5; lime mortar repoint
Defect
Open joints in the stack; back gutter split, staining the chimney breast
Work
Stack repointed; back gutter and step flashings renewed in code 5
On site
Four days

YOUR FILE OPENS AT SURVEY Nº 0913 — THE SURVEY IS FREE AND WRITTEN DOWN.

BOOK THE FREE SURVEY

THE FREE WRITTEN SURVEY · HOW A FILE OPENS

YOU'RE BUYING THE ONE PART OF YOUR HOUSE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN.

So before a penny changes hands, we lend you a clear view of it from six metres up — and put what we find in writing.

01

View along a scaffold walkway over a wet slate terrace roof with mist in the valley beyond

WE LOOK

We come out, get up there and walk the roof — every pitch, valley, flashing and gutter. Not the view from the pavement.

02

Gloved hand holding a work camera to photograph a slipped slate course

WE PHOTOGRAPH

Every defect is shot from height, close enough to read: the slipped course, the split lead, the blocked outlet. The pictures are yours.

03

Printed written roof survey with photographs clipped to it, resting on a van tailgate

WE WRITE IT DOWN

You get the survey, the photographs and a quote in plain numbers — what's wrong, what it needs, what it costs. Yours to keep, whoever you hire.

BOOK A FREE SURVEY

FREE WRITTEN SURVEY · PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED · QUOTE IN PLAIN NUMBERS · NO OBLIGATION

Weathered hands sorting riven reclaimed Welsh slates by thickness on a scaffold board
RECLAIMED FFESTINIOG SLATE · SORTED BY THICKNESS ON THE BOARD

THE CONSERVATION FILE · LISTED & CONSERVATION-AREA WORK

SLATE MATCHED BY QUARRY, NOT BY COLOUR CARD.

A heritage roof fails politely — a slipped slate each winter, a damp patch that dries by spring — and then all at once. When the time comes, the job is matching, not replacing: the right slate from the right quarry, laid the way the roof was laid the first time.

Kilnbrook has worked on listed buildings and in conservation areas across Shrewsbury and Church Stretton since 2009. Welsh slate is matched by quarry and riven face, clay tile is sourced reclaimed, lead is dressed to LSA guidance — and the survey you hand the conservation officer is written to answer their letter line by line.

MATCHING INDEX — NAMED BEFORE IT IS QUOTED

  • SlatePENRHYN & FFESTINIOG · BLUE-GREY · RIVEN FACE
  • TileRECLAIMED SHROPSHIRE CLAY · SAND-FACED
  • LeadCODES 4 & 5 · DRESSED TO LSA GUIDANCE
  • MortarLIME · NO HARD CEMENT ON OLD WORK
  • PaperPHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY, WRITTEN FOR THE OFFICER'S FILE
OPEN A CONSERVATION FILE ON YOUR ROOF

THE EMERGENCY LINE · STORM DAMAGE & LEAK RESPONSE

BUCKET UNDER THE CEILING?

MOST REPAIR CALLS ATTENDED WITHIN 24 HOURS.

Send the form now — thirty seconds, a name and a postcode — and tick "water is coming in". Emergencies are read first and called back first.

  • FIRST VISITThe leak is traced and battened weather-tight. Temporary work is photographed and explained before any permanent repair is quoted.
  • THE CREWThe same three-person crew that attends every Kilnbrook job.
  • THE COVER£5m public liability. Fully insured for work at height.
  • THE PAPEREven emergency work ends with photographs and plain numbers in writing.
GET AN EMERGENCY CALL-BACK

BUILT TO BE READ AT 11PM · IN THE RAIN · AT 8% BATTERY

Tarpaulin battened over a storm-damaged roof valley at dusk, wet slate catching the last light
TEMPORARY WEATHERPROOFING · BATTENED, PHOTOGRAPHED, EXPLAINED

WORD OF SHROPSHIRE · GOOGLE RATING 4.9/5 · 168 REVIEWS FILED

WHAT 168 REVIEWS KEEP SAYING.

No five-star gush reprinted here — just the three things Shropshire homeowners repeat, review after review, paraphrased straight and filed like everything else on this page.

New clay tiles stacked on a lawn beside a wheelbarrow, dust sheet over the border behind

THE LAWN GOES BACK HOW IT WAS.

FILED UNDER · TIDINESS & MAKING GOOD — GOOGLE REVIEWS, 4.9/5

Boarded scaffolding standing square against a brick terrace house in early morning light

TUESDAY MEANS TUESDAY.

FILED UNDER · TIMEKEEPING & THE SAME CREW — 168 REVIEWS ON FILE

Finished slate ridge line running straight against a flat grey sky

THE SURVEY MADE THE DECISION EASY.

FILED UNDER · THE WRITTEN SURVEY — CITED ACROSS THE REVIEWS

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

The map loads from Google when you choose to view it.

THE PATCH · COVERAGE READ LIKE A LEGEND

SHREWSBURY & SURROUNDS.

ONE COUNTY. THE SAME THREE-PERSON CREW. SINCE 2009.

  • SHREWSBURY — BELLE VUE · MONKMOORSY1–SY3
  • BAYSTON HILLSY3
  • WEMSY4
  • CHURCH STRETTONSY6
  • LUDLOWSY8
  • OSWESTRYSY11
  • TELFORDTF1
  • MUCH WENLOCKTF13
  • BRIDGNORTHWV16

SURVEYS BOOKED ACROSS THE SY, TF & WV DISTRICTS ABOVE.

BOOK YOUR SURVEY · FILE Nº 0913 · RESERVED

OPEN THE FILE ON YOUR OWN ROOF.

The next number in the ledger is yours. Fill in what you know — we'll come and photograph the rest, and you'll get the survey in writing whatever you decide.

SURVEY SHEET Nº 0913 · SECTION A — THE HOUSE

ROOF TYPE
PREFERRED CONTACT
EMERGENCY?

Goes straight to Kilnbrook Roofing. We reply to arrange the survey — nothing else is done with your details.