Roofers in Hernhill

On the national list St Michael's carries entry 1069116. Listed building consent is the council's job for most listed buildings, yet a Church of England church in use is exempt from it, and the church's own faculty system takes its place. Anyone caring for the building asks that system, and the council is not the body involved. This is the exemption in the Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (England) Order 2010, which keeps it for church buildings within the Church of England's faculty jurisdiction.

For the owner of an ordinary house in the parish, nothing in this changes. The faculty route belongs to church buildings, so a roof on a home that stands nearby is judged on its own facts: whether the house is listed, whether it lies in a conservation area, and what the job would alter. Those three questions are asked at the very first visit, and the answers shape the verdict before a price exists. Our roof replacement service covers what follows when a roof does need replacing.

Brett Martin, a gutter maker, recommends laying a run so that it drops 1 mm in every 600 mm on its way to the outlet. A sagging run has lost that fall, so rain stands in the dip instead of moving on. Before replacing anything we look for a bracket that has come away, a joint that has dropped, or an outlet that is blocked, and we look at the fascia behind, since a soft board cannot hold new brackets for long. The downpipe and the drain at its foot are part of the same check, because a run that falls correctly still floods if its outlet has nowhere to go.

The gutter is also the best place to look at how the roof ends. Our gutters, soffits and fascias service covers the roofline end to end, so the eaves are not left for a second visit.

The eaves are also where ventilation is settled. With a high-resistance underlay, which is not vapour-permeable, Marley's cold-roof guidance asks for 25 mm at the eaves when the pitch is 15° or less, falling to 10 mm above 15°. A new fascia or soffit is the moment to get that right, since a vent that a board has closed off cannot be seen from the ground, so we look for it from the loft side.

Scaffold that stands on the road outside needs permission under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980, and for Hernhill the authority that grants it is Kent County Council. A permit covers 7 calendar days, and applications, renewals included, are due 5 working days ahead of the start. A long job is therefore booked with its renewal date already in mind.

Staging that never leaves your own plot does not touch the highway, so no licence comes into it. Our survey settles which applies by checking how the eaves, the footway and your gate line up with one another, and by measuring from the wall to the kerb where a scaffold would have to stand.