Roof replacement in Borth

Nowhere in the area is more exposed; the village takes the sea directly in a westerly gale and roof damage after a storm is routine. That is the climate a new roof in Borth has to stand up to, and it shapes the specification a good roofer will give you. We pass your enquiry to one local firm that re-roofs houses in Borth; they look at the roof and quote in writing.

Housing and roof stock

Borth is a long seaside village on a storm beach north of Aberystwyth, a single street of houses and holiday lets between the sea and the bog, with the old fishermen's cottages at the south end and bungalows and chalets to the north.

A real mix: slate on the old cottages, concrete tile and felt on the twentieth-century houses and chalets, and everything within a few metres of salt spray.

Weather and exposure

Nowhere in the area is more exposed; the village takes the sea directly in a westerly gale and roof damage after a storm is routine. The exposure category decides the headlap, the fixing pattern and whether the ridges are mortar-bedded or dry-fixed, and it is worth asking the roofer which category they have priced for.

Conservation, listing and the national park

Borth is beside the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and the Cors Fochno bog, and the shoreline is managed for flood defence, so drainage from roofs matters.

One roofer, one written price

We do not sell your details to a list of firms. Your enquiry goes to a single roofer who covers Borth and the surrounding district, and they visit and quote. If you would rather get a second opinion after that, we can pass it to another.

The roofer covers Borth itself and the district around it, from the storm beach and sea wall out to Tre'r-ddol.