Roofers in Longford

Roofing and driveways in Longford, Co. Longford

Longford town is home. Our base is at Curry on the Athlone Road, a few minutes outside the town, so James can be with you quickly for a free quote or a leak that cannot wait.

The town mixes terraced and red-brick houses around Main Street and the cathedral with estates of semis and bungalows on the Dublin, Battery and Ballymahon roads. Older town roofs are slate with chimney stacks and lead valleys; the estates are mostly concrete tile, now old enough for ridge mortar and verges to be letting go.

Out the country roads, one-off bungalows and dormer homes sit on big sites with long driveways. That is where roof cleaning, re-colouring, fascias and gutters, and tar and chip or tarmac driveways come in.

If a storm has lifted slates or ridge tiles in town, call or text 085 239 1309. We are open 24 hours and Longford is on our doorstep.

Weather on Longford roofs

Longford sits in the flat middle of the country, so rain comes in on westerly winds with little to break it, and winter frost settles hard in the town's low ground by the Camlin river. Water that gets under a cracked ridge tile freezes and widens the gap, which is why a small leak in November is often a bigger one by February. A roof repair done before the frosts set in costs less than chasing damp ceilings in spring.

What Longford town homeowners ask us for

In the older streets near the cathedral the calls are mostly about slipped slates, tired lead valleys and chimney stacks that need repointing. On the estates off the Dublin Road and the Battery Road it is moss-covered concrete tile, so roof cleaning and re-colouring and dry ridge and dry verge upgrades come up again and again. Out the country roads people want long drives resurfaced in tar and chip or tarmac.

Close to home

Because our yard is on the Athlone Road a few minutes out of town, James can look at a Longford job the same week you ring, and often sooner. Storm damage and water coming through a ceiling get priority, day or night, through our emergency roof repair line. Eircodes starting N39 cover the town and most of the county, so give us yours when you send the form.

Slate, tile and the age of the roof

Many Longford roofs are now forty years old or more, and that is the age when the original felt under the tiles starts to perish and the battens soften. Signs to watch for are daylight in the attic, damp patches on the felt, or tiles that rock when the wind blows. If several of those show up together, a new roof can work out cheaper than repeated repairs, and James will tell you honestly which side of that line your roof is on.

Places we cover around Longford

• Longford town centre
• Battery Road
• Dublin Road
• Ballymahon Road
• Athlone Road
• Curry
• Ballinalee Road
• Abbeycartron