Heritage Roof Restoration Canberra

🏛️Preserve it: don't overcoat it

The most common mistake we're called in to correct on Canberra's heritage roofs is over-coating beautiful original terracotta with a paint that hides its character and can trap moisture underneath. Genuine heritage terracotta doesn't want a coating. It cleans up, repoints and re-beds to look and perform superbly as itself. We work sympathetically with these homes: matching tiles where we can, rebedding ridges in the original profile, and renewing flashings, so the roof keeps the character that gives the home its value.

⛰️Slate: a specialist repair, not a patch

Genuine slate is one of the longest-lasting roofs there is, but it needs the right hands. Individual broken slates must be replaced with matched stock and properly fixed, not smeared with sealant or swapped for the wrong material. We repair and maintain Canberra's slate roofs so they stay watertight and right, keeping a roof that, looked after, outlasts almost everything else.

❄️Frost and heritage roofs

• ✔️Perished, rigid old pointing cracked by decades of freeze and thaw, rebedded and repointed with flexible compound
• ✔️Slipped and cracked individual tiles or slates replaced with matched stock
• ✔️Lead and copper flashings that have lifted or split, renewed in keeping with the home
• ✔️Moss and grime on shaded faces cleaned gently, never blasted

🏡Buying or selling a heritage home?

In Canberra's heritage pockets the roof can make or break a sale. For buyers, an original terracotta or slate roof can hide significant cost behind a charming façade. Our pre-purchase inspection tells you exactly what you're taking on. For sellers, a sympathetic restoration that keeps the roof authentic is one of the best-value things you can do before listing a character home.