Roofers in Chilcompton

A farming and mining village collects outbuildings, and few of them get a second thought. Garages, workshops, lean-to stores and sheds carry sheet coverings that have often outlived the people who put them up. They get little attention, and when they let go the contents get wet before the house does.

Old corrugated cement sheet may contain asbestos. Whether a particular sheet does is a matter for identification, not guesswork, so until a roof has been identified it is treated as if it might. Under HSE guidance, taking asbestos cement sheeting off with care is non-licensed work as long as the sheets are lifted intact. Heavy breakage, which means a lot of dust and debris, moves the job into notifiable non-licensed work. That is why the method matters more than the speed: how the sheets are fixed, what state they are in and where they will be stacked all shape the plan. The rules are laid out in the HSE guidance for anyone who wants to read them.

With the covering identified, the choice is between mending, covering over and stripping. A sound sheet roof with a few failed fixings can often be mended and left in place. A roof that is cracked across many sheets, or that has rotted purlins underneath, is better stripped and re-laid, because a new covering over rotten timber is a short-term answer. On a garage the new roof may be flat or pitched, and the material depends on the span, the falls and the budget. A flat garage roof needs a fall towards the gutter so water does not pond, and that fall is set out before any membrane goes down.

The detail on materials, fall and costs sits on our garage roof replacement page. The table below shows national ranges only, taken from a MyBuilder guide of 2026; your own fixed quote is written after the survey.

Chilcompton lies in the Mendip Hills, and a roof on open ground there can take the wind with little shelter. Wind does not damage a healthy roof evenly, and a roof that has stood through many winters can still lose a tile in the one gale that finds its weak line. It finds the places where something is already loose: a slipped slate, a lifted ridge tile, a verge whose pointing has gone, or the first courses along the eaves where uplift is strongest. We check those lines first on a roof like this, because a small gap there lets in air and rain that a closed roof would shed.

When a storm does damage a roof, two practical questions follow. The first is making it safe. Water coming in gets stopped first, with a temporary cover where needed, and the lasting repair is planned once things are dry. Leaks and storm damage take priority in our diary, though we do not promise a timetable.

The second is the insurance position, which is between you and your insurer. Many insurers use a definition of storm that includes gusts of at least 55mph, and ordinary policies tend to carve out wear and tear, such as rain getting in because a roof was left unmaintained. In one Financial Ombudsman case, the ombudsman relied on local weather reports and found that wind was the main cause of the tiles coming off. A claim never has a guaranteed outcome, but dated photographs and a written account from a roofer give an insurer something concrete to assess.

MyBuilder's 2026 repair guide gives storm-damage fixes a typical band of £500 to £1,500; a few slipped tiles sit between £100 and £300, and a major repair starts at £2,500. These are national figures. The detail of how we approach urgent work is on our roof repairs page, and the fixed quote follows the survey.