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Re-roofing and new roofs in Shrewsbury and Shropshire

Natural slate, plain tiles and Staffordshire Blue, on re-roofs, new builds, extensions and older buildings.

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A long red-brick building with a slate roof edged with red ridge tiles, white-framed windows and a blue door, under a grey sky.
“First project of new year finished. The Dance Hall … Re-roofed.”Facebook, 24 January 2017

Slate or tile?

Our own roofs, with the dates we posted them.

  • Ridge
  • Head lap
  • Nailed here
  • Batten
In section: every slate is lapped by the two courses above it.
  • Close-up of a new slate roof with dark ridge tiles, seen from the scaffold, with a yard, a van and hills beyond.

    Natural slate

    Slate and matching ridge tiles.

    Facebook, 2 February 2017

  • Red-brown plain tiles on two new roof slopes against a red-brick wall, with a small window below and scaffold boards around the eaves.

    Plain tiles

    Small flat tiles in close courses.

    Facebook, 20 October 2019

  • Dark plain tiles on two new roof slopes meeting at an angle, with a brick chimney and a scaffold tower beside it.

    Staffordshire Blue

    Clay plain tiles, blue-grey right through.

    Facebook, 19 April 2017

“It looks great. People talk about Welsh Slate I don't think you can beat a through coloured Staffordshire Blue!”

David Sherry, on our Staffordshire Blue post, Facebook, April 2017

New builds, extensions and older buildings

A stone house under scaffolding with a freshly laid slate roof, a gabled dormer still in membrane and two roof windows, its window openings boarded and a blue tarpaulin in front.
A new slate roof on a stone new build, the dormer still in membrane.From our own website
New red-brown plain tiles on a lower roof beside a tall red-brick gable, seen from a scaffold deck scattered with leaves.
A red-brick new build with new plain-tile roofs.Facebook, 20 October 2019
A long red-brick building with a slate roof, a tall chimney and white sash-style windows, with scaffolding at one end under a grey sky.
“The Cock Inn at Hanwood now has a new roof on its function room.”Facebook, 7 February 2018
Our Facebook intro and 2015 letterhead, word for word

“Slating & Tiling of new and existing roofs. Specialists in New builds, Re-roof, Leadworks, Rooflights, Guttering, Fascias, Flat roofs, Property Maintenance”

Conservation works were on the letterhead. The Dance Hall above is one.

What goes into a new roof

A re-roof is more than new slates. Seven layers, rafters to gutter.

  1. Rafters
  2. Breathable membrane
  3. Battens
  4. Slates or tiles
  5. Lead flashing
  6. Ridge
  7. Fascia, soffit and gutter

Leadwork Roofline

Lead on a new roof

Lead roll

One unbroken run

Lead dressed over a timber roll down the hip.

Hip tiles

Shaped tiles, bedded

Each one cut and bedded over the hip.

Lead goes in as the courses go on, at hips, valleys and walls.

More about our leadwork

Plain tiles on a roof where slopes meet, with a grey lead roll down one hip and shaped hip tiles down the other, beside a red-brick building.
A lead-rolled hip beside a tiled hip, on plain tiles.Facebook, 23 June 2017

Before you get quotes

How a re-roof runs

  1. Scaffold

    Almost always, for safe access.

  2. Strip

    The old slates and battens come off.

  3. Lay

    Membrane, then battens, then the new slates.

No prices on the website, because no two roofs are the same size and shape. The quote is free.

Not always a whole roof. If one part has failed, a repair may be all it needs.

Can a roof window go in at the same time?

Yes. We fit Velux windows and roof lights.

All our straight answers

Roofcraft (Shropshire) Limited

Company number
06926398, incorporated 6 June 2009
Registered office
3 Pools Cottages, Annscroft, Shrewsbury, SY5 8AX
Director
Mark Wellington, since 6 June 2009

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Still busy on local roofs. In August 2026 we were looking for another roofer's mate for local work, after similar posts in October 2025 and July 2024. See our Facebook page

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