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A complete re-roof in Fleet on a large detached home among the pines: every old tile and batten stripped off, a new breathable membrane, new battens, new red tiles on a mechanically fixed dry ridge, and a huge multi-level flat roof re-covered in a new felt system. Completed October 2026 by our own team and photographed on site.
Filmed on site by our own team: the strip, the new membrane and battens, the tiles and dry ridge, and the flat roof.
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Fleet, Hampshire. A large detached home on a wooded plot, surrounded by mature Scots pines and birch.
Full strip to the rafters. New breathable membrane, new treated battens, new red tiles, dry ridge, dry hips, new valleys and a dry verge on the gables.
A huge flat roof running across several levels and wings of the house, re-covered in a felt system with a grey mineral cap sheet and new black edge trims.
Our own team, led by owner Cornelius. No subcontractors, no call centre, one point of contact from first visit to handover.
October 2026, with full scaffold access around the property and a skip on the drive for every old tile and batten.
Both roofs are covered by our company workmanship guarantee and backed by a fully insured limited company.
This was a re-roof in Fleet on a property most roofers would split into two jobs: a long pitched roof with hips, valleys, gables and a chimney, and one of the largest flat roofs we have covered this year, wrapping around several wings of the house at different levels.
The owners wanted it done once and done properly. Cornelius inspected both roofs, walked them through what each one needed and why, and put a fixed written quote in front of them before a single tile came off. One scaffold, one team, one programme, one price.
Once the tiles came off, the reason for a full re-roof was plain to see. The old battens were splitting and breaking at the fixings, the original underlay had gone brittle and torn, and years of pine needles and debris had packed down into the eaves where water sits longest.
From the garden that roof still looked like a roof. That is the problem with an old tiled roof: the tiles are the last thing to fail. Everything holding them on, and everything keeping water off the timbers underneath, gives up first and out of sight.
Patching it would have meant paying for repairs on a roof that was failing everywhere at once. Stripping it back to the rafters is the only way to know the structure is sound and to give the new tiles something solid to hang on for decades.
Every photo below was taken on site by our own team, in the order the work happened.
Two new roofs can look identical on handover day. These are the parts you cannot see that decide which one is still dry in thirty years.
Old bitumen felt keeps rain out but traps moisture in. Warm, damp air from the house condenses on the cold underside and soaks the timbers. A breathable membrane lets that vapour escape while still stopping driven rain, so the roof space stays dry and the rafters stay sound.
The British Standard for slating and tiling, BS 5534, requires ridge and hip tiles to be mechanically fixed, not held on by mortar alone. We fit a dry ridge and dry hip on every re-roof. Mortar cracks with the seasons. Clips and screws do not.
A flat roof this size lives or dies at its joins. Every run overlaps the last, the edges finish in proper trims instead of loose felt folded over a board, and the felt is dressed up the walls wherever the flat roof meets the house. That is where water gets in, so that is where we spend the time.
Fleet is one of the most wooded towns in Hampshire, and plenty of its best houses sit on large plots under tall Scots pines, exactly like this one. It is a big part of the appeal. It is also hard on a roof.
If your Fleet roof is under trees, ask us to check the valleys, gutters and flat roof outlets when we inspect. It is often the cheapest fix on the list, and it is the one that saves the timbers.
The pitched roof is now new from the rafters up: breathable membrane, new treated battens, new red tiles, a clipped and screwed dry ridge and hips, new valleys and a clean dry verge with black fascias and bargeboards. The flat roof, all of it, is re-covered in a felt system finished in a grey mineral cap sheet with new black edge trims.
The owners got one scaffold, one team and one fixed price for both roofs, instead of two separate jobs months apart and twice the disruption. If you have a tired tiled roof and a flat roof that keeps getting patched, have both quoted at the same time. It nearly always works out better.
Cornelius owns Seal Pro Roofing, has over 27 years on the tools and handles every enquiry himself. You speak to him at the first call, he quotes the job and he is the person you deal with until it is signed off.
Tell us about the roof and we will arrange a free inspection and a fixed written quote. If a repair will do the job, we will tell you that instead of selling you a new roof.
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