Leaking roof ? Slipped slates ? A roof that’s finally had enough of Scottish weather? We’ve been fixing Perthshire roofs for 15 years — from a single cracked slate in Craigie to a full reroof in Crieff
Most people who call us are in one of four situations. Find yours.
A stain on the ceiling, a drip in the loft, a damp patch that keeps coming back. The leak is almost never directly above the stain — water travels along timbers before it drops. We find the actual source before we quote for anything.
Perthshire gets battered. Named storms come up the Tay and lift slates, ridge tiles and whole sections of flashing. If you've got slates in the garden, the roof is open — and it needs covering before the next front comes through.
Original slate on a Victorian terrace, patched a dozen times, nails rusted through, and every winter brings a new leak. At some point patching costs more than replacing. We'll tell you honestly which side of that line you're on.
Flat roofs fail differently — ponding, blistering, splitting felt. Modern GRP and EPDM systems last decades if they're laid properly, and about five years if they're not.
Leaks, slipped slates, failed flashing. Diagnosed properly, fixed once.
Full strip and reroof in slate or tile, with new sarking where it’s needed.
GRP fibreglass, EPDM rubber and torch-on felt for extensions, garages and dormers.
Scottish slate, Welsh slate, concrete and clay tile. The traditional trade, done properly.
Repointing, rebuilds, lead flashings, valleys and soakers.
The roofline. Cheap to maintain, expensive to ignore.
Rapid make-safe, full repair, and photographic evidence for your insurer..
Done gently, by hand where needed. Never with a pressure washer.
Single-ply, felt and liquid systems for units, shops and farm buildings.
If you've read roofing advice online, most of it was written for English houses. English roofs are typically tile, hung on battens, over a felt or membrane underlay. Fix a leak and you're often looking at a slipped tile and a bit of torn felt.
Scottish roofs are built differently — and they fail differently.
Scottish slate is enormously durable, outliving generations. What fails is the iron nail. Over decades, they corrode and let go. The slate is fine—it just isn't attached anymore. This is why an old roof sheds slates randomly, and why endless patching becomes a losing game.
Because slates sit straight on timber (sarking boards), a long-running leak soaks the continuous deck underneath. Rot spreads sideways beneath perfectly normal-looking slates. We survey properly from inside the loft first, ensuring no hidden mid-job cost surprises.
Stripping a Perthshire roof means upgrading it to modern standards. We replace rotten sarking, introduce high-performance breathable membranes, and integrate counterbattens and ventilation that weren't there originally. A modern roof needs to breathe.
Ask any roofer quoting on your Perthshire house what they'll do about the sarking and the ventilation. If they don't have an answer, keep looking.
Not a call centre. Not a form that goes into a black hole. During working hours, most calls are answered inside 30 minutes.
Not a look from the pavement with a pair of binoculars. We get up there — ladder, scaffold or drone depending on the job — and we photograph what we find.
You see exactly what we saw. Every item is priced. If we think you need less work than you asked for, we'll say so, and we'll say why.
Nail sweeps, waste removed, garden left as we found it. Every single job.
15 years on our workmanship. If something we did isn't right, we come back and put it right.
We're based in Perth and we work across Perthshire and Kinross-shire.
Not on the list? Give us a call — if you're within reasonable reach of Perth, we'll likely come out.
See all areas we coverIt depends almost entirely on size, pitch, access, material and — the big one on Perthshire houses — whether the sarking underneath needs replacing. A small terraced roof is a very different job from a detached house with three dormers and a chimney. We give a written, itemised price after a free survey, and we’ll tell you if you don’t actually need a new roof yet.
For a full reroof, almost always — it’s a legal safety requirement, not an upsell. For a small repair, often not. We’ll tell you which before we start, and scaffolding is itemised separately on your quote so you can see exactly what it costs.
This is the question we’re asked most. The honest answer is that it depends on the nails. If the roof is shedding slates in a random pattern across the whole roof, that’s usually nail sickness and you’re on borrowed time. If it’s one area, after one storm, that’s a repair. We’ll tell you which you’ve got, with photos, and we have no interest in selling you a roof you don’t need.
Regularly. We’ll photograph everything, provide a written report of the damage and its cause, and give you an itemised quote in the format insurers expect. See our storm damage page.
