About 8 minutes from Weston town centre · North Somerset area
Flat Roofing In Uphill
Does your flat roof face the Channel with nothing in the way?
Coastal-specification flat roofing for the most exposed village on our patch
Uphill is the end of the land. The village sits where the River Axe meets the Bristol Channel, under the headland with the old church on it, and when the weather comes up the estuary there is nothing between it and your roof except a beach. We treat Uphill as a category of its own: every trim, fastener and fixing gets specified for salt from the outset, because the ordinary stuff corrodes here on a schedule you can set a calendar by. The membranes themselves shrug the sea air off. The metalwork holding them down is where coastal roofs are won and lost, and that is a detail most quotes never mention because it never shows up in a photograph.
Get A Free Flat Roof Quote In Uphill
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 Uphill
Uphill has been a port of sorts since before the Normans - the boatyard and marina on the Axe still work the tides, and the roofless Old Church of St Nicholas has watched over the whole arrangement from its rock since about 1080. The old village around Uphill Road South and Old Church Road is stone cottages under pitched roofs, and it carries its own conservation area, separate from the Great Weston one. Around that historic core sits the housing that concerns us more: postwar detached homes and bungalows along Links Road and towards the beach, nearly all of them carrying a flat-roofed extension, garage or porch.
Those flat sections live a harder life in Uphill than the same construction would two miles inland. Salt-laden wind gets at every exposed edge, and the properties nearest the beach and the marina take spray-carrying gusts that inland owners would report as a storm. What we find when we strip Uphill roofs is consistent: membrane fine, deck fine, and every screw, trim and termination bar furred white or rusted through. Specify the metal for the marine environment and an Uphill flat roof lasts as long as anyone else's. Specify it from the standard catalogue and the edges start letting go in a decade.
Planning in Uphill: Uphill has its own conservation area around the old village, separate from Great Weston. Anything visible from the street there is worth checking before work starts rather than after. Planning and building control for Uphill sit with North Somerset Council.
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Flat Roofing Services In Uphill
EPDM Rubber Roofing
Rubber is indifferent to salt, which makes it the natural covering here - provided the trims and fixings are chosen to match it.
Read more about EPDM Rubber Roofing in Uphill
Fascias, Soffits & Guttering
Uphill's rainwater goods corrode and streak faster than anywhere else we work. Marine-grade replacements stop the cycle.
Read more about Fascias, Soffits & Guttering in Uphill
Flat Roof Repairs
A lifted corner here is urgent, not cosmetic. Once the wind owns an edge on an Uphill roof, it keeps working until it owns the covering.
Read more about Flat Roof Repairs in UphillRoofing For A Village That Faces The Sea
Everything on this list exists because Uphill sits at the Axe mouth with the Channel on its doorstep. None of it is padding.
Marine-grade metal, always
Stainless or coated fixings, salt-rated trims, and termination details chosen for spray exposure. The cost difference on a whole roof is small; the lifespan difference at the perimeter is the whole game.
Edges detailed against uplift
Wind failure starts at corners and perimeters, and Uphill supplies wind on demand. We fix to the exposure the roof actually has, which out here means more fasteners in the zones that take the load.
Conservation area know-how
The old village has its own designation, and anything visible from the street there deserves a check with North Somerset before work starts. We flag it at survey rather than leaving you to discover it afterwards.
Honest about the weather window
Some Uphill weeks are not roofing weeks, and pretending otherwise is how coverings get laid badly. We plan the exposed jobs around the forecast and tell you plainly when waiting is the better call.
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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"When we strip a failed roof in Uphill, the covering itself is usually still watertight in the middle. What has died is the perimeter - trims, fasteners, edge metal - which is why we now quote Uphill jobs from the edges inward."
Based on the enquiries handled by RPS Flat Roofing
How A Uphill Job Runs
The same eight stages on every roof we take on, whether it is about 8 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 Uphill 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 Uphill
Old Church of St Nicholas
The Norman church on the rock above the village has stood since about 1080 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust - tower and chancel intact, nave open to the sky, and the best free view on this stretch of coast.
Learn more about Old Church of St Nicholas
Uphill Marina & Boatyard
The tidal boatyard on the Axe is the working heart of the village - masts, moorings, a slipway that has launched boats for centuries, and a sea wall walk where the river slides out into the Channel twice a day.
Learn more about Uphill Marina & Boatyard
Walborough Nature Reserve
Avon Wildlife Trust's pocket of salt marsh and flower-rich grassland between the village and the estuary, joined to Uphill Hill's own reserve - orchids in early summer, wading birds on the marsh, and barely a soul on a weekday.
Learn more about Walborough Nature ReserveWhere We Work In Uphill
Uphill is about 8 minutes from Weston town centre, which puts every street on this map inside our normal survey run - including Uphill Village, Uphill Road South, Old Church Road 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 Uphill
Uphill jobs price slightly above the equivalent roof in a sheltered street, and the difference is entirely in the metal and the fixing schedule - marine-spec trims and stainless fasteners cost more than standard, and an exposed perimeter gets more of them. On a typical garage that adds perhaps a hundred pounds or two to a £1,400 to £2,600 job; on an extension near the beach a little more. We would rather show you that line on the quote than fit catalogue-standard parts a hundred metres from salt water.
See The Full Cost GuideFlat Roofing In Uphill - Your Questions
Does being by the sea shorten a flat roof's life in Uphill?
It shortens the life of the wrong specification. Rubber, fibreglass and modern felts are unbothered by salt air - the failures we see in Uphill are corroded trims, fixings and edge metal, not perished membrane. Specify those parts for a marine environment and there is no reason an Uphill roof should give you fewer years than one in Nailsea.
Is my house in the Uphill conservation area?
If you are in the old village - around Old Church Road, Uphill Road South and the lanes near the boatyard - quite possibly, as Uphill's conservation area is its own designation rather than part of the Great Weston one. It mainly matters for work visible from the street. North Somerset Council holds the maps, and we check before starting rather than after.
My roof leaks in gales but not in rain. What is going on?
Classic Uphill. Driven wind is forcing water sideways into an edge, upstand or trim that ordinary rainfall never troubles. It usually means the perimeter detail has opened up - and on this coast that wants attention promptly, because the same wind that finds the gap will steadily widen it.
Can you replace guttering and fascias at the same time as the roof?
Yes, and in Uphill we usually suggest pricing it, because the rainwater goods are typically as salt-worn as the roof edge and the access is already there. Doing both in one visit costs less than two separate jobs and leaves the whole roofline weathered in matching materials.
Areas We Cover Around Uphill
Get An Uphill Roof Surveyed Before The Next Blow
One of us will walk the roof, check the edges the wind actually attacks, and give you a written figure that includes the coastal-grade parts. Free, and worth doing before the autumn gales rather than after.