About 12 minutes from Weston town centre · North Somerset area
Flat Roofing In Bleadon
Paying for the view with a flat roof that will not stay quiet?
Flat roofs for the village by the Axe and the exposed houses on the hill above it
Bleadon runs uphill, and so does its weather. Down in the old village by the river it is calm - stone cottages, sheltered lanes, the kind of conditions any covering can live with. Climb Celtic Way onto Bleadon Hill and the equation flips: the houses up there look across the levels to the Quantocks, and the price of that view is wind that arrives over the ridge with genuine intent. The properties we work on most are the hill's substantial postwar and modern homes, whose double garages, flat-roofed wings and porches were often specified like their sheltered cousins in the valley. Same covering, same details, wildly different service conditions - which is why the hill keeps us busier than the village.
Get A Free Flat Roof Quote In Bleadon
Four boxes and one of us will come and stand on it. Surveys are free, we do not do the three-hour kitchen-table sales pitch, and if your roof has another eight years in it we would rather tell you that than sell you one you do not need.
About Bleadon
The village proper - Purn, Coronation Road, the lanes around the church - is the old part, tucked against the hillside where the Axe slides past on its way to Uphill. It has a conservation area over its historic core and, sitting close to the district boundary, it generates a persistent local myth that it falls under Somerset Council. It does not: Bleadon is North Somerset, and quoting the wrong authority is the kind of error that costs an application weeks. The housing here is a pleasant muddle of stone cottages, infill and bungalows, with flat roofing confined to the usual supporting cast of extensions and garages.
Bleadon Hill is a different proposition. The ridge road and the closes off it carry some of the largest domestic plots on our patch, and the houses match - big footprints, integral and double garages, flat-roofed additions from every decade since the fifties. Exposure aside, the hill adds a subtler problem: several generations of coverings applied one over another, because successive owners patched rather than stripped. When we survey up there we spend as much time working out what the roof is made of as what is wrong with it. The answer decides everything, including whether the joists are carrying more dead layers than they were ever asked to.
Planning in Bleadon: Bleadon village has a conservation area and sits close to the Bleadon Hill ridge. Still North Somerset Council, though it is close enough to the boundary that people assume otherwise. Planning and building control for Bleadon sit with North Somerset Council.
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Flat Roofing Services In Bleadon
EPDM Rubber Roofing
The hill's garages and wings suit one-piece rubber with an uprated fixing schedule - flexible, salt-proof and secured for the ridge wind.
Read more about EPDM Rubber Roofing in Bleadon
GRP Fibreglass Roofing
Where a Bleadon roof doubles as a terrace or balcony for the view, a walk-on fibreglass shell is the covering that copes.
Read more about GRP Fibreglass Roofing in Bleadon
Fascias, Soffits & Guttering
Ridge-top weather strips paint and works fixings loose. Modern boards and properly-secured rainwater goods end the repainting cycle.
Read more about Fascias, Soffits & Guttering in BleadonTwo Bleadons, Two Ways Of Working
A quote that treats the village and the hill as the same place has not understood Bleadon. We price them as what they are.
Hill roofs get storm fixings
Perimeter fastening, trim choice and membrane attachment on Bleadon Hill are specified against ridge-line gusts, not the village average. It is a modest cost on the day and the difference between quiet winters and flapping ones.
Layer archaeology before pricing
Hill roofs often carry two or three old coverings. We establish what is actually up there - and what it weighs - before quoting, because stripping four layers is a different job from stripping one.
Village work kept low-key
In the conservation core we keep the street tidy, check visibility rules where they apply, and get materials in without turning a narrow lane into a depot.
The right council, first time
Bleadon is North Somerset, whatever the boundary maps make people assume. Building control notifications go to the right authority from day one.
What Our Guarantee Actually Covers
Every flat roof in Weston is guaranteed by somebody. Read the small print and you usually find the promise is from the company that made the rubber, not the company that stuck it down. That distinction matters, because membranes almost never fail. Installations do. A sheet of EPDM will happily outlive all of us sitting in a warehouse. It fails at the upstand where somebody rushed the corner.
So RPS Flat Roofing splits the two and tells you both. The materials carry whatever the manufacturer offers, which depends on the product going on your roof - and you are told which product that is, by name, before you agree to anything. Separately, the workmanship carries our own written guarantee, handed over on the day, in language you could read out to a neighbour.
The reason we are relaxed about putting that in writing is that most of the flat roof failures we get called to were decided before the covering went on. Water was never given anywhere to go, or the old deck was left in place because lifting it would have shown up something awkward. Get the falls and the deck right and the covering is the easy part. Get them wrong and no warranty document in the world keeps your ceiling dry.
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Flat Roofs Done
"The Bleadon Hill roofs we strip average more old coverings per roof than anywhere else on the patch - patch-over-patch decisions made decade after decade, because taking the view down to bare deck felt drastic. Eventually somebody has to, and by then the joists deserve a look too."
Based on the enquiries handled by RPS Flat Roofing
How A Bleadon Job Runs
The same eight stages on every roof we take on, whether it is about 12 minutes from Weston town centre or at the end of our own street. Diagnosis and a fixed figure always come before any spend.
Describe The Roof
Tell us what it is doing and where in Bleadon it lives. Symptoms plus postcode is enough to get the right person and the right kit on the first visit.
A Free Survey On Foot
Charlie, Ricky or James walks the whole roof - field, edges, upstands and outlets - because faults rarely sit where the stain suggests.
The Deck Gets Judged
We check the timber from above and, where there is access, from below. What the boards are doing decides the job more than the covering does.
You Hear The Verdict First
Repair or renew, and why, in plain words - before any number appears. If a small fix is the honest answer, that is the one you get.
An Itemised Fixed Price
Deck, falls, insulation, covering, trims and access on separate lines. The figure is fixed in writing and does not drift once work starts.
Strip, Then Rebuild The Falls
Old coverings come off rather than getting buried, soft timber comes out, and a real slope goes back in so water leaves instead of lodging.
Covering Fitted To Specification
Membrane, laminate or felt system installed with the fixings and edge details matched to the exposure the roof actually faces.
Proof Before Payment
Outlets tested, site cleared, photographs of what you cannot see from the ground, and the guarantee in your hand on completion day.
What To Do In Bleadon
Purn Hill Nature Reserve
An Avon Wildlife Trust reserve and SSSI on the western tip of the Mendips, home to white rock rose found at only one other site in Britain - Brean Down, visible across the water from the top.
Learn more about Purn Hill Nature Reserve
Hellenge Hill
Purn Hill's quieter neighbour, another Wildlife Trust holding on the slope above the village, with orchid-flecked grassland and a panorama that takes in the levels, the Channel and on a good day both banks of it.
Learn more about Hellenge Hill
The Queens Arms
Bleadon village keeps its pubs in working order, and the Queens Arms on Celtic Way is the one every walk off the hill seems to finish at - proper beer, proper food, and a car park that fills early on Sunday.
Learn more about The Queens ArmsWhere We Work In Bleadon
Bleadon is about 12 minutes from Weston town centre, which puts every street on this map inside our normal survey run - including Bleadon village, Bleadon Hill, Celtic Way and everywhere between.
What People Say Afterwards
Flat roofing is a trade people only think about when something has gone wrong, so the bar is low and the horror stories are plentiful. Here is what customers around Weston and the levels have said about getting it done properly.
Two firms had already patched the same corner of our extension roof and both times it came back by Christmas. Ricky got up there, came down, and said the problem was that the water had nowhere to go - the whole thing sat in a dip. They rebuilt the falls and put rubber over it. Third winter now, still dry, and I have stopped keeping a bucket in the airing cupboard.
Ours is a bungalow near the old village so it is nearly all flat roof, and the salt off the Channel had eaten the edge trims to nothing. Quoted properly, itemised, and the price at the end was the price on the paper. They also spotted that the outlet had been fitted higher than the deck by whoever did it in the eighties, which explained a great deal.
New-ish house, flat canopy section over the front, leaking at one corner. I was braced for being told the whole lot needed replacing. James looked at it and said it was a single lap that had never been properly welded, charged me a fraction of what I had budgeted, and was gone by lunchtime. Genuinely refreshing.
We wanted the garage roof done and were dreading the whole business. Charlie turned up when he said he would, explained the difference between the warm and cold deck options without making us feel thick, and let us take a week to think about it with no chasing phone calls. The crew swept up so thoroughly you could not tell they had been.
We run a unit and the roof had been leaking over the racking for the best part of a year. They worked around us, did the noisy part on a Saturday so we never lost a day's trading, and the report they sent afterwards was detailed enough that our insurer accepted it without a single follow-up question. Cannot ask for much more than that.
I had put off dealing with the dormer for years because every quote I got was for the entire roof. RPS were the only ones who separated out what actually needed doing from what would be nice to do eventually. They did the dormer, told me the main covering had a good few years left, and did not once try to talk me into the bigger job.
Flat Roof Prices In Bleadon
Village jobs in Bleadon price on the familiar ranges - garages £1,400 to £2,600 in rubber, extensions £2,200 to £4,000. Hill jobs run a little higher for two honest reasons: uprated fixings and edge details for the exposure, and the extra stripping time when a roof turns out to be wearing its last three coverings at once. Both appear as their own lines on the quote, so you can see exactly what the ridge is costing you. Repairs from £180 where the covering deserves saving.
See The Full Cost GuideFlat Roofing In Bleadon - Your Questions
Is Bleadon under North Somerset or Somerset Council?
North Somerset, definitively - the boundary runs south of the village, and Bleadon sits on the Weston side of it. It matters because building control notifications, conservation questions and any planning checks all go to North Somerset. We deal with them routinely and get it right first time.
Why does my Bleadon Hill roof fail faster than my neighbour's in the village?
Altitude, mostly. The ridge adds wind speed and takes away shelter, so edge details that live peacefully by the river get worked continuously up the hill. If your roof was specified with standard fixings, it is fighting above its weight class. The fix is not a better membrane - it is securing the one you buy properly for where it lives.
Can you tell how many old layers my roof has before stripping it?
Usually, yes - edges, outlets and a small inspection cut give the layer count away, and the roof's height relative to its door thresholds often confirms it. We do that detective work at survey precisely so the strip-off price is honest rather than optimistic.
Do you fit roofs you can walk out onto for the view?
On Bleadon Hill, regularly - it seems a waste of a panorama not to. A flat roof that doubles as a terrace needs a walk-on covering, which in practice means fibreglass with a non-slip finish, plus balustrade fixings detailed in from the start. Very much worth doing while the roof is being renewed anyway.
Areas We Cover Around Bleadon
Get A Bleadon Roof Priced For Where It Actually Lives
Village lane or ridge top, one of us will stand on the roof, work out what it is carrying and what the wind is doing to it, and put a fixed written figure on the answer. Surveys are free and short notice is fine.