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Agricultural and barn roofing around Montgomery
Farm building re-sheeting, barn re-roofing and asbestos-cement replacement around Montgomery. We put you in touch with a roofer who does agricultural work in the district.
Montgomery is a small Georgian town below its castle, with brick and rendered houses around Broad Street, older timber-framed buildings behind them and a rural district of farms towards the English border. The farms around Montgomery, out towards Chirbury, Churchstoke, Abermule, Kerry, carry every kind of agricultural roof: stone barns in slate, Dutch barns in rusting tin, cattle sheds and workshops in asbestos-cement sheet. Farm roofing is its own trade and we pass your enquiry to a roofer who does it, not a house roofer on a big shed.
The buildings around Montgomery
Slate throughout the town, on steep Georgian pitches with parapets and valleys that need lead, and plenty of agricultural roofs on the farms around.
Re-sheeting and re-roofing
Steel sheet
Box-profile or corrugated plastisol-coated steel on checked purlins, with rooflights and ridge ventilation for stock. The fastest way to make a working building dry.
Fibre cement
The asbestos-free sheet that replaces old cement roofs like for like, and the better choice over livestock for condensation.
Stone barns
Re-slated like a house, and if the barn is listed or in a scheme, slate is expected. The whole town centre is a conservation area and a high proportion of the buildings are listed, so materials are watched closely.
Asbestos-cement roofs
Most sheds put up before 2000 around Montgomery are roofed in asbestos cement. Sound sheet can stay and be managed. Removal is non-licensed work under HSE rules if the sheets come down whole and wet, but sheets that will be broken up are notifiable, and the waste must leave with a registered carrier under a consignment note. Ask the contractor to show both.
Weather on the farms
Sheltered by the castle hill on one side and open to the Severn valley on the other, it is drier than the western towns but still gets the winter storms off the hills. Sheet roofs are fixed for that exposure, with stitching screws at the laps and the ridge, and a shed re-sheeted without them loses sheets in the first gale.
How it works
Tell us what the building is, its rough size, what it is used for and what the roof is made of. We pass it to a roofer who does agricultural work around Montgomery, and they visit and quote in writing. Free to use. We do not advise on grants; check the current Welsh Government scheme with Farming Connect.
- Roofers who do farm buildings, not house roofers on a big shed
- Steel, fibre cement or slate priced for the building and its use
- Asbestos-cement handled under the HSE's rules, with the waste paperwork
- One local firm, free to use
Before you ring
Agricultural and barn roofing in Montgomery: common questions
Can the shed stay in use while it is re-roofed?
Usually, bay by bay, with stock moved as the roofer works along the building. It is one of the first things they will plan with you.
Does the contractor need an asbestos licence around Montgomery?
Not for asbestos-cement sheet removed whole: the HSE classes it as non-licensed work. They do need trained workers, a registered waste carrier and a consignment note for the waste, and they should show you both.
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Your roof. Your next step.
Describe the job and your location. Your enquiry goes to one local roofing firm, who can discuss the work and arrange a written quote.